Planning, fundraising, purchasing, maintenance, training and information distribution, and administration are identified as the roles of the microcomputer coordinator. The responsibilities within each area of responsibility are listed. (MBR)

A summary of research on humor that has practical implications for those who work with children. (Author/MP)

Students should have a primary role in teachers' lives, and teachers must not be overcome by administrative chores. (DD)

Outlines strategies for teaching freshman composition courses and discusses the similarities between teaching graduate courses and teaching survey courses. Finds that (1) thinking, exploring, and testing ideas in the freshman composition classroom can provide material for research; and (2) teaching in the area of one's scholarship provides an…

Teachers are faced with the challenge of making sure that their gifted students are not forgotten. This document shares three separate accounts of how three individuals assisted to better develop the talents of gifted students. The first account describes a counselor in a rural school district who selected three middle school students and took…

One of the most important educational objectives of high school is to teach critical-thinking skills, and no class does this better than strategic debate. Professor Mike Allen, lead author in a definitive study on debate and critical thinking, lauded debate's promotion of critical-thinking skills. Additionally, researcher Joe Bellon discusses the…

The faculty activity analysis describes the time faculty spend in various professional activities. Faculty time is expressed in terms of hours or in terms of percent of the total work effort. Various forms of the analysis are discussed. Each form emphasizes categories of faculty time including: instruction, research, professional development, and…

This discussion paper illustrates some of the implications of service functions through reference to the historical development of one group of professors of higher education organized within a center, apart from, yet in cooperation with a department of higher education--a group of professors that does provide specific service to the institution…

One of a series of articles which will deal with non-school influences on learning in school and the limitations these influences impose on the ability of schools, teachers, and school districts to make a significant impact on the education of low-income children. (DM)

Author recommends that a labor-management relationship between faculty and administration would be more honest than the vagaries of the current relationship based on democratic pluralism. (HS)

Teachers are responsible for instilling in their students good attitudes toward all races. (AF)

Discusses the need for day care for school-age children, indicates what other countries have done to meet after-school day care needs, describes program implementation efforts in the United States, and points out benefits of extended day programs. (RH)

The author proposes a middle ground in the debate between research and teaching in higher education. He defines them as specialized, but complementary, forms of inquiry which are both essential to intellectual life. (SJL)

Offers guidelines on avoiding the worst personnel problems associated with reduction in force. (Author)