After a study of 3,000 classrooms in 130 schools in 16 states, the Environmental Protection Agency urged all schools to conduct tests for radon. Explains a 6-step screening test, methods of reducing radon concentrations, and how the risk from radon exposure compares with other risks. (MLF)

Identifies the knowledge and skills, personal qualities, and values typically possessed by successful students. Offers recommendations concerning the learning process and school programs, climate, personnel, and organization designed to promote student success. (DMM)

Explores the relationship among the self-image of third-generation Japanese-American males, sexual dynamics within corporations, and their managerial behavior. Argues that ethnic and sexual stereotypes influence Japanese-American participation in the management of U.S. corporations, and that membership in "corporate communities" has…

The authors state that liberal education courses help police officers understand and even challenge their own organizational culture. They describe a program for which they are the faculty that aims to expose police officers to views different from their own in order to challenge their perspectives. (CH)

Discusses the use of the Work Environment Scale (WES) to measure teachers' perceptions of psychosocial dimensions of their school environment. Describes an application of WES in which work climates of different school types were compared and contrasted. (RJC)

Discusses the chronic economic crisis affecting rural America in terms of its impact on the individual as well as the community. Challenges the human services system to develop alternative delivery systems sensitive to rural culture, emphasizing community involvement, social support, and empowerment. Contains 36 references. (Author/SV)

Analyzing a sample of 42 elementary schools and 45 secondary schools in the state of New York, this article investigates the organizational work characteristics that predict teachers' career dissatisfaction in order to establish a basis for changing the work environment of schools. (Author/TE)

Merit pay replicates Reaganomics by breeding competition between entrepreneurs who design their own teaching and research in direct response to the merit pay system. It also breeds cynicism and discourages faculty service to the institution. (MSE)

Presents a world climate simulation game in which students demonstrate knowledge of the Koppen System of Climate Classification, ability to read and interpret a climograph, and ability to locate places by means of longitude and latitude coordinates in an effort to locate a ring of spies who have planted a bomb in an unidentified city. Clues and…

Two strands of curriculum inquiry reconceptualization are discussed; both are in contrast to the dominant empirical-analytical orientation to teacher education. Hermeneutic inquiry serves practical interests and proceeds by an interactive form of social organization. Critical inquiry serves emancipatory interests and is organized socially through…

Argues that tenured English teachers at small liberal arts colleges want several things from prospective new faculty members, including the capacity to share authority among equals, and the ability to give up some radical intellectual independence in order to collaborate (not compromise or capitulate) professionally. (RS)

Examines the factors that indicate slowing economic growth in the United States and their possible impact on library funding and expenditures. Areas discussed include government funding of libraries, regional economic differences, the increasing prices of library materials, and the overall economic outlook for libraries. (CLB)

Discussion of the future of educational technology focuses on an organizational analysis of the scenarios presented in the articles in this issue. Categories of organizational dynamics include the environment; goals, including values and objectives; structures, including authority and finance; methods, or technologies; and personnel issues,…

A national survey of colleges and universities found that investment returns on endowment funds continued to be healthy and were slightly higher than the previous year. Market value of endowment assets and life income fund assets for 435 institutions in 1993 are detailed in tables, with some narrative analysis. (MSE)

Alumni continuing education programs can be self-supporting, but they will not thrive unless faculty and administration appreciate their intrinsic value. Garnering ideas and support from the campus community can be invaluable. The alumni program director's goal is to show that continuing education is an extension of the institution's primary…