Reports on the 1994 English Advanced Placement Reading, an event which brought together 750 readers to provide accurate, efficient, and comfortable scoring of over 173,000 exams. (SR)

Although much is being done to improve student transition along subject lines, much more remains to be done. (CK)

Discusses some key current educational trends in British Columbia, including curriculum change and school reorganization, high school work experience programs, advanced placement courses, Native studies programs, and computers. (SR)

Discusses changing concepts of important topics in teaching history--away from a "political/diplomatic" approach to a "social history" approach that includes broader topics, such as urbanization, shifts in social structures and classes, and crime and resistance. Shows evidence of this shift in content requirements, tests of Advanced-Placement…

Examines elements of gifted child education, including the process of identifying gifted students, implications for gifted education, and possible outcomes of labeling students. Emphasizes that some gifted children need more than a pull-out program, and that gifted child education can be a pattern for appropriately differentiated instruction. (MM)