This article describes the development of criteria for the architectural design of school buildings to accommodate the needs of mentally and physically handicapped students. A comprehensive summary of the criteria is included, covering building design and layout, classroom and service areas, furniture, surfaces, and considerations for specific…

Ways in which an emotionally mature and perceptive person can help another with deep-rooted and seemingly unsolvable personal problems are presented. (CK)

Discussed the Pilot State Dissemination Program, undertaken as a try-out of an educational extension and retrieval system on a sufficiently large scale to derive guidelines for future projects at the state level. (Author/RK)

Discusses three different settings which illustrate the need for a cost-benefit type of evaluation and then gives examples of objective-based evaluation, goal-free evaluation, and cost-benefit evaluation. (RK)

Discusses the problem of discipline in the classroom, classroom violence, and how students and teachers can protect themselves from attack or harm. Also provides 5 tips for the teacher who is the victim of an assault. (Author/RK)

The author's conclusion is that it is much more logical and economically feasible to provide a learning environment with a structured behaviorally stated relevant curriculum where teachers would have the freedom to do the job for which they have been hired rather than to deal with an outside agency. (Author/RY)

Discusses the relevance of applied performance testing to classroom testing and outlines strategies that teachers may take in incorporating this testing method into their classroom activities. (Author/RK)

Professional organizations, such as the American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, have established guidelines and standards for certification of school media specialists and have identified necessary professional competencies. Issues and problems concerning state certification and…

The historical development of curriculum materials in the social studies is outlined. Principles offering the potential to effect major changes are described and a set of guidelines for a rational social studies curriculum is established. (JMF)

Described Indiana University's new Division of Teacher Education. (RK)

The Ohio Career Development Program was evaluated and students were tested in order to carry out that evaluation. (RK)

Reports on the movement from compensatory education to multicultural education and warns that this transition must take place with caution. (Editor)

Article is condensed from position papers on rationale for the Career Opportunities Program. (Editor)

From her review of the final evaluation reports of 81 career education projects, the author notes seven common pitfalls in career education program evaluation. For a related article by this author, see pp75-83 of this issue. (SJL)