This essay identifies conceptual directions, as alternatives for development, of a model for the implementation of accountability systems in schools. In his discussion, the author draws a fundamental distinction between relatively mechanical assessments of the performance of operations and relatively qualitative evaluations of the consequences of…

Reviewed are the provisions of the Headstart, Economic Opportunity Community Partnership Act of 1974 which amended an earlier law to require that 10 percent of children enrolled in Head Start programs within each state be handicapped. (DB)

Past accountability definitions have been narrowly defined using accomplishment/cost approaches. Positive outcome data have been obtained for counseled applicants, but the counseling function is still being questioned. This article proposes expanding the concept of counselor accountability and introduces a multi-approach to accountability. (Author)

The author discusses the multiply handicapped deaf, focusing on failures to accurately identify the population and their educational needs and suggesting ways in which those needs can be met. (LS)

Article investigated the extent that the responses of teachers to the expressed needs of students have as their source unconscious elements, such as projective, reversal, and empathic reactions. (Author/RK)

A brief survey of the investigations of concept learning in the behavioristic trend in psychology offers some guidelines for clarity in studies of visual concept learning in art. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the need to recognize basic characteristics of academically disadvantaged students and stimulate them toward more productive learning processes. (Author/RK)

Article provided specific examples of one school's public relations program to illustrate the potential effect of consistently positive press coverage over a period of years. (Author/RK)

Summarizes many of the characteristics of new journalism as highlighted by Tow Wolfe and E. W. Johnson in "The New Journalism", discusses several definitions of new journalism, and predicts that one trend new journalism will take in the future is to develop men's liberation as a subject. (RB)

Author explored the difference between the learning rpoblems affecting a slow learning child and the learning problems of a child with specific learning disabilities. (Author/RK)

Authors examined the challenge of aerospace education, described current activities and offered suggestions to help teachers help their students into the aerospace age. (Editor/RK)

Metaphor has recently become a topic of considerable interest and empirical investigation. Cognitive theories view metaphor as an aid to cognitive restructuring. Beyond the heuristic and theoretical concepts, the results of empirical research have suggested that metaphor is a potentially valuable tool for enhancing client involvement in counseling…

While the term "intersubjectivity" has become widely used to mean something like "shared experience," it is, paradoxically, poorly understood. This review of the theoretical foundations of intersubjectivity argues that the problem lies in the developmental starting points of the theories. Either subjective experiences are seen…

This booklet is a guide for discussion among teacher groups, including affiliates of the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. The booklet presents 14 brief case studies designed to increase awareness of the range of meanings embraced today by the term literacy--reading and writing of course, but also…