The Problem of Isolated Schools in Norway

The following article differs in format from the usual pattern adopted for this journal. Written by Professor Samuel Abrahamsen of Brooklyn College, City University of New York, who is the contributing editor for the Scandinavian countries, it is a summary of several reports and articles found in recent publications on education in Norway. None of these original articles contained a sufficiently rounded presentation of the problems of the isolated schools and the measures taken by the government to overcome their disadvantages. We have therefore combined the essential points from various articles to include the Norwegian project as a further illustration of the cooperative work that CER1 attempts to promote. (See "Educational Programs for Socially Disadvantaged Populations" of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation, published in this issue.)