Educational Research: Prospects and Priorities. Appendix 1 to Hearings on H. R. 3606 and Related Bills to Create A National Institute of Education Before the Select Subcommittee on Education.

Overview & Synopsis

During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of a National Institute of Education. This document is the first of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational research, and ways of improving methods of teaching. Subjects covered include educational research and development in the sixties, classroom teachers and educational scholars, the translation of research and development into action, the measurement needs of education, individualized instruction, statewide assessment, social accounting in education, the role of the National Institute of Education, desegregation and integration in higher education, women in higher education, open education, planning for new students in higher education, mass education and the economic benefits of a college degree, the moral content of public education, definitions of education, and educating for the future. (Related documents SP 005 696 and SP 005 697 contain appendixes 2 and 3.) (MBM)