Compares the awareness, use, and impressions of the Women's Resource Center in 476 traditional and 334 nontraditional female students. Results showed that traditional students were more aware of the center and that many of the programs offered by the center appealed to few traditional or nontraditional female students. (LLL)

The office of admissions of a large, private university recognized the need of students seeking admission, who wanted to be reassured that their secondary education would be compatible with admissions requirements. Article is a general statement on how the university intended to meet secondary school demands. (Author/RK)

Report of an AMA study of the role of participants' expectations in management development and training. (Editor/MB)

Negative attitudes, program rigidity, lack of funding, lack of research, organization and administration, reluctance to innovate and reluctance to provide vocational education for all who can profit by it are seven major problems facing vocational education. (GR)

Examines and rejects nine reasons given by educators for opposing externally designed tests. Suggests a tenth, unvoiced reason that may be the most valid: that testing may reveal deficiencies in the school's educational program. (PGD)

Discusses four reasons why mainstreaming has made slow progress. (FL)

Identifies problems and decisions made surrounding the implementation of a basic writing program. (HOD)

Considers the planning of innovation in higher education from four viewpoints: the nature of the innovation, the planning process, educational planning, and higher education. In the absence of external pressures to change attitudes, planning of innovation seeks to create a favorable environment through altered organizational structures and…

From population of 238 public secondary agriculture programs in Missouri, 59 with adult programs and 98 without were randomly selected. A total 174 superintendents and 178 agriculture teachers (93 percent) returned instruments indicating positive perceptions of need for adult programs. Superintendents thought adult agricultural education should be…

A mother recounts her negative experiences with an early intervention program for her cerebral palsied infant and encourages parents to assert themselves if a program is not meeting their child's needs. (DB)

Reports on ethnic differences in service utilization, preferences, and delivery concerns among 488 Latinos, European Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans who were consumers or potential consumers of California family-resource centers providing child, economic, social, and health-related services. Latinos and African Americans were…

Reports the perceptions of female prison inmates, who ranked the importance of educational, behavior modification, and vocational programs. Programs ranked most critical were general education equivalency, adult basic education, parenting programs, life skills/cognitive self change, HIV/AIDS education, and religion. (JPS)

This article describes the methodical problems of the ranking of Russian universities by the independent ranking agency RatER. The main features of this ranking system are public estimations of the quality of the higher education in Russia. The results of the sociological study were processed by the original statistical methods. The procedure…

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyse how participants in leadership training programs in higher education value and perceive their training process. Design/methodology/approach: A stylized theoretical model is developed indicating that leadership training may be designed along a collegial-managerial continuum. To study how…