With a fresh kind of mix of students, faculty, and learning concepts, community colleges are breaking the seams of traditional education. (Editor)

Presents comments on training courses that were administered through a multi-media instruction process. (RK)

The large, impersonal introductory political science course is able to meet the individual students' needs by offering three tracks. A basic track is taken by everyone, a second offers open-ended possibilities to superior students; a third allows slower students to be tutored in a study center. (KM)

The computer can be a welcome partner in the instructional process, but only if there is man-machine interaction. Man should not compromise system design because of available hardware; the computer must fit the system design for the result to represent an acceptable solution to instructional technology. The Arithmetic Test Generator system fits…

Students in an open study hall system with a student lounge option received lower grades than students without the option. To prevent this, it is suggested that wise use of unstructured time be planned. (AP)

Attention is called to flaws in current concepts of self-instruction and alternative approaches are suggested. (LS)

A science course at Purdue University requiring students to do a good deal of work on their own at a learning center serves as a basis for discussing the issue of independent study. (LS)

First report of this program, supported by a U.S. Office of Education contract, appeared in the January 1966 issue of Modern Language Journal." (DS)

Four articles describe difficulties of diagnosing and teaching children who are 1) minimally brain-damaged or slow-maturing, 2) pampered to the point of undergoing emotional problems in a normal classroom, 3) in need of intensive teaching care or 4) highly creative but not easily adaptable to everyday school environment. (PD)

Text of a speech delivered at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston, Massachusetts, March 20, 1970. (DS)

A description of computer program segments in the feasibility and development phase of Operationally Relevant Activities for Children's Language Experience (Project ORACLE); original form of this paper was prepared by Serwer for presentation to annual meeting of New England Research Association (1st, Boston College, June 5-6, 1969). (Authors/RD)