Offers six suggestions for improving the content of high school yearbooks, including (1) ignoring past editions of the yearbook, (2) revising the production calendar, (3) discarding standard content, and (4) broadening the coverage of an event. (FL)

Addresses problems confronted by new yearbook advisers. (HOD)

Discusses how it would be beneficial to high school journalism teachers and publications advisers if they could pay Journalism Education Association dues at the same time they pay dues for state Scholastic Press Associations. (MS)

Argues that journalism advisers and their staffs should attend scholastic journalism/publications workshops and conventions. (RS)

Presents advice to journalism advisers on convention attendance planning. Argues that all the hard work and responsibility of attending national conventions is worth the effort. (RS)

Offers a brief biographical sketch of a retired journalism teacher with 45 years of teaching experience who continues to offer service as an information resource. (AEA)

Describes the kind of principal supportive of publications advisers and recommends strategies for keeping him or her. (JL)

Explains why it is important for journalism educators to gain professional journalism experience. Presents accounts of five former journalism students who have achieved success in various fields. (FL)

Reports the findings of a questionnaire survey that elicited the reactions of 216 school publications advisers on the performance of the national rating services. (FL)

Notes ways student publications can promote sex equity within a school and provides a sex equity self-assessment instrument for faculty advisers. (FL)

Presents advice for new yearbook advisers planning and production of a yearbook. (RS)

Notes that administrators must appease both the community and the student press rights. Suggests that advisers inform the administration of any story that may not be legal or may pose problems, and the principal can then exercise "publisher's" rights if he or she concurs, subject to student appeal. (HTH)

Discusses the necessity of being aware of what constitutes libel in secondary school publications and offers examples of materials that may be libelous, including letters to the editor, quotations, photographs, headlines, and picture captions. (DF)

Discusses the importance of time management and organization in producing a school newspaper. (FL)

Discusses scholastic press association directors and high school journalism workshop directors' assessments of their duties. Offers the directors' suggestions for publication advisers--what they can do to make the life of the director less stressful. (MS)