The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) pushes states to improve the public accessibility of Career Technical Education (CTE) data. According to the law, state agencies, as well as local recipients, must share data on the performance of all CTE students, and subgroups of learners, and make this…

suggests ideas to improve yearbook coverage of class activities and academic life in high school. (RB)

Takes a look at faculty and academic coverage in photographs and copy, suggesting ideas on how to prepare materials for the student yearbook. (RB)

Shows how to produce a literary-art magazine which students will seek out and desire. (RB)

Describes how one school switched its newspaper from the 8 1/2" x 11" mini-tab format to a larger, five-column format. Discusses some of the difficulties in changing and recounts some of the advantages. (TJ)

Suggests that a major factor in current yearbook design is the use of a dominant factor such as a photograph in a spread. Provides information on how to use photographs, margins, headlines, captions, and color to produce a simple, elegant, and clean-cut look. (TJ)

Discusses such aspects of a newspaper nameplate as its purpose, appropriate typefaces and size guidelines for it, and its position on the page. (GT)

Discusses three types of captions which complete the information for the school yearbook and how they should be used. (HOD)

Asserts that editorial pages need a distinctive look so that the reader knows the difference between the editorial page and any other page in the paper. Offers ideas for creating the design, the masthead, the editorial itself, editorial artwork, personal columns, letters to the editor, and photo polls. Discusses eight types of editorial styles.…

Contains suggestions for improving yearbook copy. (RB)

Analyzes the contents of the New Canaan (Connecticut) High School yearbook, praising its innovative layout. (RB)

Analyzes the layout of several high school yearbooks to provide publications staffs and advisers with some tips for improving yearbook content. (RB)

Discusses the use of magazines as sources of ideas for yearbooks and provides eight suggestions for improving the layout of yearbooks. (RB)

Provides a list of fourteen layout ideas intended to improve the appeal of the high school newspaper. (RB)