Emphasizes need to find ways to provide graduates of two-year technician programs access to baccalaureate programs. (BC)

Analyzes the defeat of the California child care tax credit bill and suggests avenues for parents, child care groups, and professionals to use in future advocation efforts. (BJD)

Examines the issue of tuition tax credits as a means to ensure lower costs and more efficiency in running schools. (JOW)

Racial discrimination in the home mortgage lending market in Memphis, Tennessee, for the years 1977 through 1979 was examined. A regression approach was used to ascertain the effects of lending rates at the census tract level. Racial composition significantly influences lending rates. (Author/AM)

The social and political forces giving rise to the nontraditional education movement are identified, and inherent tensions in three types (credit-bearing, free form, and personal empowerment) are outlined. Conflicts between theory and practice in these three forms are discussed. (SK)

Debtors Anonymous, a support group begun by the National Council of Negro Women, helps members to educate themselves about credit, consumer protection, and budgeting, and to set long-term goals for money management. Chapters have been organized in cities throughout the country. (SK)

Tuition tax credit proposals have been introduced in Congress since the early 1950s. Issues relating to tuition tax credit include: the impact on public policy; people and groups who would benefit from the tax credit; budgetary and tax implications; and the constitutionality of the tuition tax credit. (JN)

Business educators should recognize and promote business education at all levels and work toward an articulation among all educational levels that will allow students to gain maximum competency in the most efficient and effective manner possible. (Author)

Addresses questions about academic credit and grading procedures for journalism internship programs. Provides information on how one school has dealt with the issue. (RL)

Urges credit for college reading and study skills courses and responds to three typical criticisms heard about such courses. (HOD)

Describes how company-sponsored training can earn employees credit toward college degrees. Presents examples from the American Council on Education's Program on Non-Collegiate Sponsored Instruction. (JOW)

Examines the pros and cons of several family-oriented initiatives offered by President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole during their 1996 campaigns. These include tuition tax credits, volunteer tutoring programs, across-the-board tax breaks, and school voucher programs. (HTH)

Calls for a richer perspective in assessing prior experiential learning. Asserts that using Levi Strauss' totemism instead of metaphor (looking for similarity between experience and courses) may restore power, ownership, and centrality of the experience to the candidate for assessment, while allowing evaluators to engage in a novel but authentic…

Discusses how online colleges are frustrated that many traditional institutions do not accept their credits when students wish to transfer. (EV)