In order to study man with any hope of accuracy, the anthropologist must overcome his own ethnocentrism and learn that he must not intervene in the affairs of a people while studying them. The critics of education, as well as educators, should learn how to engage in this process. (Author/JN)

Some second thoughts about the manager's handbooks'' developed in the great curriculum projects of the early sixties, based on two years of controlled study. (Author)

Vocational educators have fought an unfavorable image, union rejection, industrial pressures, biased credentialing standards, apprenticeship and money problems, and apathy throughout their history. Business and industry are calling for high school graduates with salable skills. Federal funding is shifting toward the vocational scene. (Author/JN)

Career education is no longer just a sound idea that needs to be tried, and the first steps have been taken to test its validity in real schools with real students. The school's success or failure with the upcoming generation of young people will become apparent when they enter the labor market. However, career education is felt to be the best…

The authors suggest that, in the future, career educators should attempt to discover to what extent career education enhances the principle of maximum possibilities in occupations; how it can obliterate the distinction between work and leisure; and how it can be more concerned with human services. (Author/JN)

A rationale for and a description of existing programs in career education. (Author/JN)

Educational decisions will increasingly be made at the State rather than at the local level; here are implications for school leaders. (Author/JN)

Several reasons are given why tuition costs for higher education (not only for colleges but also for nonpublic schools) should be included among allowable deductions in calculating income taxes. (Author/JN)

Suggests that, although collective negotiations have had little overall effect on teachers' salaries, they have had significant impact on other issues. (JF)

The Scanlon Plan -- an industrial model -- has three essential aspects: group incentives for all employees in the organization; a negotiated, objective basis for distribution of incentives; and a formal system by which employees participate in decisions about management of the organization. (Author/JF)

Our economic organizations must change rapidly to incorporate the young and to serve as institutions for learning. Education must be reorganized to compensate for recent transitions of families from places of educational resources to the work place as instructor, and to compensate for changing internal structures and policies within the workplace.…

Discusses the implications of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Pickering vs Board of Education, which reaffirmed teachers' right to freedom of speech in certain circumstances. (JF)

A guide to the underground education publishers and their products. The guide discusses the reasons underground publishers exist and suggests ways in which they have influenced the giants. (Author/DN)

Discusses a program started in Duluth, Minnesota, in which parents have the option of selecting the kind of education they want for their children and in which both parents and students contract for achieving a desired educational step in a specified period of time. (DN)

Discusses four alternative programs that will soon be available to students wishing to be certified to teach secondary social studies. (Author/DN)