The vocational teacher has the potential to affect a person's career decision--a responsibility not to be taken lightly. (Editor)

Nurses need to examine critically the effects of computerized curriculums on the teaching-learning process. (Author)

Discussion of how independent schools, while making full use of technological advancements in education, can teach students the "essential superiority of the humane over the merely mechanical. (Author/AP)

A paper presented at annual Conference on English Eduation (7th, Syracuse, N. Y., March 29, 1969.) (Editor/RD)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Community service organizations face a dilemma resulting from hard economic times, inflation, fewer traditional volunteers, and changes in volunteer motivation. There is a need to enlist the help of corporations and local colleges. The experiences of the Littleton, Colorado community are described. (MLW)

Based on experience in developing an information referral and data management system for tenants' rights organizations, suggests ways in which academic communities can redress inequities in the availability of politically useful information by making it more accessible to organizations serving working and lower class populations. (Author/GC)

Though career plateauing can be put off, it can seldom be entirely avoided. Distinction is made between plateauing of the job content type and plateauing of the structural or organizational type. Primary solutions involve job enrichment, performance goal adjustments, lateral transfers, or modified standards of appraisal. (SSH)

Discusses a brief historical overview of constitutional law as it applies to children, delineated in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Emphasizes the need for school psychologists and educators to have an understanding of children's developing legal rights. Specific court cases are cited. (Author/JAC)

The connections between class and gender must be recognized if attempts to rationalize and proletarianize teaching are to be understood. Behaviorally-specified curriculum, prepackaged programs, and repeated testing and accountability measures represent attempts by state governments and by male administrators to wrest control of instruction from a…

Presents guidelines for dealing with emotionally disturbed students on campus, illustrated by appropriate legal cases. Administrators and counselors must decide if the student poses a threat and may have the responsibility to warn a forseeable victim. Admissions and readmissions policies are also discussed in light of legal requirements. (JAC)

The purposes of this article are to heighten sensitivity to the needs of poor minority parents with exceptional children, to encourage the use of due process and equal protection in school programing, and to diminish the vast involvement of the courts in parent-school conflicts. (SK)

Reports on survey conducted with support from the U.S. Department of Education to describe supply and demand for foreign language teachers in secondary schools, pre- and in-service teacher preparation, teacher workload, curriculum and instruction, professional responsibility and personal characteristics, as well as to derive policy advice for…

After reviewing the post-World War II history and the current status of health education, the author, a 1982 American Association for Health Education scholar, looks at the challenging vista ahead for health education. (CJ)

This paper examines criticism of multicultural education and argues that this subject can become a focal point for raising issues about racism and social inequality. Multicultural education is relevant to the training of all British teachers and can help counteract the tendency to blame cultural deficiencies for minority group problems. (Author/PP)