Swing of the Pendulum.

The article presents news concerning education in the United States as of May 1974. Jerold R. Zacharias is directing a project for the Education Development Center under a grant from the Office of Education to develop a series of television lessons on mathematical topics to children in the context of realistic human activities. A report by the National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education has called for the elimination of compulsory education beyond the age of 14. An issue of the periodical "Bulletin of the Council for Basic Education," has criticized the recommendations in the report of the National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education.