Viewpoints II: Contemporary Educational Issues. Reports of Educational Staff Seminar Programs 1973.

The activities of the Educational Staff Seminar of The George Washington University are described for 1973 in reference to schools and colleges, other learning communities, children, governments and governance, learning and books, and testing and technology. Chapter I discusses fraud in the schools, graduate and professional education, and vocational-technical education. Chapter II reviews Synanon, rehabilitation, prison education, informal education in Boston, and financing a nontraditional educational institution. Chapter III discusses early childhood development, gifted children, the education of the gifted and talented in Philadelphia, the federal role in the education of the handicapped, and education in institutions for the retarded. Chapter IV reviews school finance, alternative roles for the federal government in school finance reform, federal categorical programs, decentralization, federal-state relations and the federal role, discretionary funds, state legislatures, and black political power. Chapter V presents discussion with various authors. Chapter VI reviews cable television, testing programs, and technological advances. (MJM)