Reviews key events at the 1985 annual convention of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, including workshops on discipline, management skills, and curriculum and instruction; speeches by futurist Marvin Cetron, educators Dudley Flood and Ernest L. Boyer, and children's television executive Joan Ganz Cooney; and the…

Most school psychologists lack information about their organizational history and the development of what is now a strong state and national network of professional groups. This article attempts to bridge this gap, describing the evolution of professional groups and their growth in recent decades. (Author)

Contends that the split between NDT and CEDA threatens the educational function of debate because it limits the forms of debate open to students. Points out the value of both forms and suggests that rapprochement between the two organizations might be facilitated by joint topic selection. (PD)

Replies that advocating a rapprochement between NDT and CEDA overstates the difficulties that separation has created. Points out the benefits generated by competition between these forensic organizations. (PD)

Identifies common concerns of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association and the National Association of Rehabilitation Professionals in the Private Sector. Results of two surveys (N=42), (N=438) showed respondents favored cooperation between the two organizations in planning conferences, co-sponsoring publications, legislative lobbying,…

It is important to maintain a history and archival record of the art education professional associations, state and national. Those who have gone before should be honored, since they struggled to build the National Art Education Association into the largest association of its kind in the world. And a history of its professional development, and in…

Highlights of speeches presented at the 30th ASTD National Conference in San Francisco are given: S.I. Hayakawa outlined developments in higher education during the 1970's; Joe Batten called for life enrichment, not just job enrichment; and Dorothy Jongeward discussed transactional analysis as a tool for more effective interpersonal relationships.…

Surveyed were the views and opinions of 216 Education Division members of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD) in an attempt to discover underlying satisfactions or dissatisfactions with the AAMD. (DB)

Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1. (DD)

Brief outline of the environmental movement beginning with ERA I, covering all the centuries since the earliest goatherders let their flocks overgraze Judean hillsides, to EAR V and the opening of the National Wildlife Federation Laurel Ridge Conservation Education Center. Dire responsibility and necessity for conservation stressed. (LK)

A successful marriage between counseling and testing must be based on mutual beliefs and expectations. AMEG can provide test users and test specialists with a means for agreement on some realistic expectations for the marriage between counseling and testing. (Author)