Offers a brief account of some of the problems facing higher education and some of the reasons for optimism. (IRT)

Describes potential new programs to provide economically related skills and a general or liberal education to a broadened clientele. (Author/IRT)

If the urban, independent university is to survive, it must recognize the impending enrollment decline and emphasize academic excellence and programs that are rooted in the urban community. (IRT)

Large state universities face two basic challenges--to be more effective in using resources and in setting priorities and to communicate what they can and cannot do while explaining what they need if they are to meet the multiple obligations that are thrust upon them. (Author/IRT)

A federal urban grant program is necessary to enable urban universities to develop their research and service activities. Such a program would provide the resources and impetus for continued innovation and viability in urban universities. (Author/IRT)

The good news in the Bakke case would be for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide that equal protection was denied and for the regents of the University of California to have to write a new, broader operational definition of equal protection for applicants to medical school. (Author/IRT)

The central proposal is the establishment of an educational research and development institute and an implementation council in each state. These would make it possible for the states to carry out vital research, development, and implementation activities that have not yet been conducted well at either level. (Author/IRT)

Among the topics considered are educational quality, the back-to-basics movement, absenteeism, early graduation, the advantages of schools in small communities, media coverage of education, and federal programs. (IRT)

New accreditation regulations in Texas require competency-based education programs for all districts. All districts must be accredited to receive state aid, which makes up 85 cents of every dollar spent locally. (Author/IRT)

Through a series of shifting majorities, the Court upheld the textbook loan, standardized testing and scoring, diagnostic services, and therapeutic services provisions of the Ohio statute and struck down the instructional materials and field trip sections of the law. (Author)

Educators and educational organizations must work toward more effective communication on problem-oriented education with the American citizenry. (Author/IRT)

Florida and California are the leaders in setting new, lowered age levels at which students may take high school equivalency tests. (IRT)

Hawaii's experiment with the 3 on 2 plan in which three teachers are assigned to two classes has been judged not worth the cost because students in the program do not do any better on math and reading tests than do students in regular classrooms. (IRT)