Highlights the more common objections raised to the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (1980) regarding bilingual educational rights of national origin minority children and responds to those objections with factual information. (CM)

The author looks at the personal and institutional barriers to college reentry by mature women and describes a peer-group conference approach in which reentry college women and professionals contact and counsel other women in the community who might be considering such a life change. (SJL)

Data indicate that the extent to which senior adults enroll in postsecondary educational institutions through tuition-waiver programs is unknown. Administrators describe the impact of tuition waivers for senior adults as limited, yet few state educational coordinating bodies have collected data to confirm this opinion. (Author/BEF)

The effectiveness of assertiveness training discussion group parenting programs with center-city and suburban parents was evaluated. All parents showed a significant pre- to posttest decrease in restrictiveness on Block's Child Rearing Practices Report, regardless of group membership. A significantly greater change was noted for center city…

The author identifies eight areas of concern in gifted/talented education. (CL)

Describes the Garrison School in New York City's South Bronx and the principal who made it the only school in its district that is meeting or exceeding national achievement standards. (Author/JM)

Values clarification may be one of the tools counselors and psychological educators can use to help males determine their own value preferences. Research on values clarification over varying time sequences needs to determine if the spacing of values clarification strategies has an effect. (Author)

Evidence from evaluation studies of open classroom effects on children is not sufficiently consistent to warrant unqualified endorsement of that approach over more traditional methods. However, there is enough evidence to support the open classroom as a viable alternative when teachers and parents are interested in such a program. (RD)

The nature and form of useful management information in a variety of situations is discussed. It is suggested that questions posed by managers may determine the effectiveness of the management information system. Questions concerning demographic trends and enrollment declines are used to illustrate this point. (SF)

A program at the University of Oregon designed to attract and graduate underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged students in dentistry is reported. The programs consisted of three phases: career orientation, recruitment, and academic enrichment/retention. Effects of the program (including increased enrollment) and recommendations for program…

Seven visually handicapped adolescents, literate in braille but with little or no visual reading experience, were trained in letter and word recognition by closed circuit television for two weeks. All subjects increased their visual reading speed; in some cases, visual reading speed surpassed that of braille. (SJL)

Briefly assesses the state of physics education over the past 50 years, and explains what is believed to be the necessary direction that should be taken in the immediate future. (GA)

With the relationship between individual learning styles and the effectiveness of the experiential approach, it was hypothesized that the effectiveness of the experiential approach, as measured by student perceptions and student grades, was a function of learning style compatability. The results did not support this hypothesis. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that students' attitudes toward styles of painting studied were influenced in a positive direction through use of an experimental curriculum. (RW)

A national survey of State supervisors of office education was conducted to determine the effectiveness of their laboratory programs. Overall findings revealed that the laboratory program is a viable and reliable method of instruction and will continue to be used in the future. Specific findings are summarized in this article. (TA)