This article presented a report of an Art Education Association miniconference on culture and art education held in Taos, New Mexico. (Author/RK)

This paper attempts to bring into a clearer perspective the concept of assessment of learning in art by defining a theory of accountability that is compatible with public education, formulating the presuppositions that underlie a theory of art and of teaching, and examining the concepts of a behavioral methodology for assessment. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated programs for the elderly and the need for their improvement based on research indicating that people over 65 have creative ability and interests previously misjudged. A program for the elderly developed at the University of South Carolina's Center for Arts and Humanities was described. (Author/RK)

Article recounted a brief conversation from notes taken at the July meeting of the 1975 World Congress of INSEA-UNESCO. The author talked with Dr. Boris Yusov, a leading Russian art educator, and Dr. Vera Alexeeva, a lecturer and author on art appreciation. (Author/RK)

The debate presented in these two articles is one in a continuing series of articles on important topics of concern to art education; in this issue two art teachers commented on the state of art teacher associations, especially the National Art Education Association. (Editor/RK)

Article described the use of kits, a packaged collection of related materials designed to teach the user a predetermined content specific to the arts in conceptual, historical, critical, or aesthetic dimensions, and caboodles, a variation of a kit, which present important visual arts concepts to students. (Author/RK)

Considered the part of art education in the intellectual formation of children. (RK)

Maintaining a perspective on the state of art education is a necessity if we are going to be able to plan for the future. Article presented evaluations of a number of art programs. (Author/RK)

Article related the language and concept of art, the dialogue of aesthetic experience with mental images. (RK)

Article pointed out the need for arts programs in atypical situations, some of the profound basic needs of exceptional people and how the arts can be a major means of meeting these needs. (Author/RK)

Art icle stressed the advantages in working together for art educators and classroom teachers as well as museum personnel. (Author/RK)

Author directs his attention to the question of why art should be taught in the public schools and the necessity of creating an antienvironment. (RK)

Author considers art in relation to society's needs. (RK)

Considers developments in art education and the way social currents influence its practice. (RK)

Author contends that a useful analysis of the visual world is performed through the experiences of verbally and critically analyzing art as well as making it. (Author/RK)