The NEA president-elect announces a campaign to establish professional practices boards, by State statute, to give teachers more control over teacher education, licensure, in-service education, and the ethical conduct of their peers. (Author/MF)

An educational program, conducted at the Nassau County Jail in New York, enables youthful offenders to complete their high school education. (MF)

A style of bargaining for educators and school boards is described, based on rational inquiry, open discussion, and peaceful persuasion. (MF)

Fact-finding, as a means of settling public employment disputes, is discussed. The history, legal status, and procedures of fact-finding are summarized. (MF)

School superintendents risk being bypassed in the process of bargaining due to the emergence of new management figures, usually labor attorneys or consultants, who conduct collective negotiations between many school boards and teachers. (MF)

A student body president describes a student teaching project undertaken during a nation-wide teacher strike in Sweden. (MF)

There is a growing realization that contemporary science and technology are unable to solve the problems of the deteriorating human condition. Consequently, philosophy and the humanities are increasingly important forms of inquiry in a world that has recently tended to reject them. (JH)

Emphasis on the conflict between humanism and technology in curriculum development serves to detract from the important and feasible task of using technology to further humanize education. (JH)

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)

Changes in the social setting of the 1970's could eliminate the need for a special curriculum for the disadvantaged child, with the exception of preschool programs. A more critical need appears to be improved teaching methods capable of rewarding and improving the self-image of disadvantaged children. (JH)

Includes comments by Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Ted Gordon, Arnold Salisbury, J. Lloyd Trump, and Robert J. Havighurst. Reprinted from the New York Times Magazine (1969).