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This volume deals with innovative developments of many different kinds in the local school systems in the years up to 1970. The major purpose is to show what may be expected from an educational organization that gives local authorities a certain amount of leeway to depart from standard procedures.

This volume discusses the various types of educational organizations, their purposes, the scope and nature of their activities, and their contributions to education. It includes professional organizations, and various groups with a direct or peripheral interest in education in its broaded definition.

This volume discusses some current issues and problems in education, and the main body of the text describes the quantitative growth of the educational system.

The development and functions of the Department of Education and local school systems, the financing of education, and the educational activities of provincial and federal governments are studied in this volume. The emphasis is on current issues and problems.

Volume III explores the basic units in the educational system: student, teacher, and school. It examines the aims of education, historically and philosophically, and describes the development of various types of schools.

In this volume the development and activities of universities, colleges of applied arts and technology, and other institutions of post-secondary education are described in detail. The public and private training activities of business and industry are outlined, and government programs for adult retraining described.

A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume, and it describes in detail the creation and growth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and its research activities.

Written for everyone seriously interested in education, whether specialist or general reader, this volume provides an analysis and overview of the key issues that have arisen in education in the last decade and evaluates the prospects for formal education in the future, concentrating on interpretation rather than statistics.