Author discussed the concept "Defectology" and put forward for each type of handicap the appropriate educational provision based on practices which appeared to have had most success in European socialist countries and described the psychological and social assumptions lying behind them. (Editor/RK)

Most countries have national ministries or offices of education. This article examines alternative mechanisms developed in two countries which had no national governmental authorities in education. (Author)

Special problems of education in rural America are highlighted and some new problem-solving approaches within the capabilities of rural schools and communication technology are explored. (Author/HB)

Article focused on Creative Helping, designed to facilitate the development of distinctive personality, to reduce anomie and to release creative energy. (Author/RK)

Discussed the objectives and the conditions which made possible a new school embodying radical innovations. The results of a observational study at an early stage of the school's development, undertaken by a group of students, are summarised here by two of them, both now teaching in Leicestershire Upper Schools. (Editor/RK)

Author presented his impressions based on his analysis of the editorial opinions of Dr. Thorne as they have appeared in the Journal of Clinical Psychology since its beginning in 1945. (Author/RK)

In his position as retiring chief of the Workers' Education Branch of the International Labour Office (ILO), Paul B. J. Chu is interviewed on worker education, the ILO organization and tole, personal disappointments and satisfactions, future educational developments in which the ILO will be involved, and problems facing workers' education. (AG)

The founding of the Headmistresses Association a hundred years ago marked the emergence of the girls' public schools from the chaotic muddle of private ladies seminaries. Author traced the history of three schools successfully established during the nineteenth century. (Editor/RK)

Argues that (1) increased and improved relations are definitely needed between R&D specialists in universities, research centers, and educational laboratories on the one hand, and the field users in public schools, State agencies, legislatures, and colleges on the other; (2) serious problems and pitfalls have developed in linking procedures…

A portion of a report by a Working Party of the British Computer Society Schools Committee. (HB)

The interdisciplinary studies during the progressive education era are chosen by anthropologist Margaret Mead as a most significant educational development in the last half century. She describes the interaction of persons in the forefront of change, the protocracy, and suggests reasons for the present anonymity of their team efforts. (Editor)

This paper discusses how the planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluating systems (PPBES) can be individually designed to help local school districts meet their financial needs. Each segment of the system is individually described along with actual implementation. The paper concludes that adoption of such systems can enhance educational…

During the past 20 years great efforts have been made to systematize and institutionalize educational research and development. At the same time, changing government priorities, shifting roles of participating institutions, and the politicization of social research have contributed to discontinuity and turmoil. The time has come to consider…