Sketches some educational, social, political, and economic trends that are likely to take place in the 1980s. (IRT)

Reports on the United Kingdom's experience with comprehensive secondary education as a method of providing equal educational opportunity. Concludes that the trend toward compulsory equality, as represented by the comprehensive secondary school seems irreversible. (Author/IRT)

Presents an interview with W. Willard Wirtz, chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board panel investigating the decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. (IRT)

Answering question relating to the future of society, the influence of religion, and the role of education, two theologians agree that schools should develop in students a sense of wonder, empathy, and civility. (DW)

Discusses the current state of the American economy and the circumstances that brought it about, and suggests possible governmental policies to combat the combined problems of inflation and recession. (JG)

Economist Lester Brown reveals the extent of the growing crisis and how it will affect people of the United States. (Editor)

Fictional account of educational procedures in the year 2184 A.D. (including "laser projected holoschooling") and of the wide variety of spectacular changes that will have occurred worldwide as a result of advanced behavior modification and new technology available in the first two hundred years after 1984. (JBM)

Describes the impact of the "information society" and new developments in microelectronic technology on both physical and intellectual labor and discusses future alternatives and consequences in jobs and education. (JBM)

Explores the implications of the silicon-chip microprocessor and of telecommunications advances for future learning both inside and outside organized educational programs. (Author/RW)

Describes features of an educational program incorporating a continuum of learning experiences, providing personalized learning more tailored to the child's own interests and learning capabilities than the standard graded curriculum or individualized instruction not incorporating the continuum concept. (JK)

Educators and students speculate on education during the next thirty years. (LR)

This future-oriented position paper provides a wide-ranging discussion of nine crucial issues identified by Phi Delta Kappa chapters and some guideposts for educators who must deal with these issues in coming decades. (Author/JH)

Reports on the results of a survey of members of the organization, Professor of Curriculum, to determine which publications have influenced curriculum development since 1906. (IRT)