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Economic pressures, technological changes and political decisions will affect the structure of information systems. There will be a need for the provision of more accessible, more comprehensive, faster and more standardized statistical information systems coordinated on interdisciplinary and international bases. A staff will be required to develop, design and operate the information system. A broad, basic education in information science will be needed in addition to specialization. Education programs can be examined according to three variables: work orientation, professional level and specialization. Program organization and topics taught should be correlated to these variables. In actual practice, most of the schools examined in the United States included the topics of information storage and retrieval, indexing, and content analysis and design. Few taught mathematical tools, the scientific bases of a subject or research methods. The European programs vary considerably although many include organization and dissemination of data and more mathematics and linguistics than in the United States. The majority of existing programs are limited by a narrow view of the field of information science. (JG)

A 3-year guidance program to increase achievement level and motivation admitted 73 low achieving 10th graders. Experimental subjects were assigned to seminar or non-seminar groups; controls remained in the usual slow track. Both experimental groups were divided into smaller groups for flexibly programed classes in English, social studies, and reading and for guidance classes; both groups participated in weekly cultural programs and field trips. The seminars for the one group provided individual counseling, conferences, supervised study, and library work. Students were evaluated throughout the program. Results varied from year to year but there were no significant differences in IQ or motivation. Although all had losses in achievement test scores at the end of the 1st year, the seminar group ranked first at the close of the program on every criterion measure variable, thus suggesting a differential response to the program. (JD)

The conceptual teaching of economics is described to encourage economists to assist and support efforts to teach economics in the schools, K-12. (DB)

A brief account of the design and implementation of the first full-time one-year post-graduate course in science information work in Israel is presented. (Author/AB)

Crime in America will not be effectively reduced until basic changes are made in the structure and quality of life--respect for law and order will not be restored until respect for the nature of society is restored. (Author/JB)