Education can serve its purpose only when it prepares individuals to live successfully. Teaching practices, instructional materials and the education system as a whole should be critically examined. Science program must become individualistic, humanistic, and futuristic in its character. (PS)

Describes and evaluates Individualizing Mathematics, a set of sequential instructional booklets and tests for students in grades seven through nine, by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. (EA)

Presents several ideas concerning ways to make the office procedure class more relevant to student needs. (JS)

Author conducts preservice education for science teachers by engaging students in modules stressing contemporary issues. Basic features of the modules include providing individualized instruction and stressing the interdisciplinary aspects of pure applied and social sciences. (PS)

Describes a physics laboratory course which operates without written instructions and with no required experiments. Course is based upon one- or two-week topics in mechanics, heat, electromagnetism and optics with a student-designed experiment in modern physics as an extended project. (DF)

Third in a series of polls of professional opinion on key issues. This one assesses attitudes on such disparate questions as individually prescribed instruction and the treatment of pregnant students. (Author)

Team effort and learner-centered activity are emphasized in this description of the learning program at the Plantation Middle School, Broward County, Florida. Extensive use of media and materials characterizes the curriculum. (Author/KE)

A course which has been tried, evaluated, and completely adopted is presented as an alternative solution to the problems of introductory courses for the non-major. (DF)

Describes a teaching format at Walden School, New York, New York. (DS)

Adapted from a speech given during the Seminar on Teacher Preparation at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, December 1971. (DS)