Discusses "Cobblestone," a social studies magazine, and "Penny Power," a consumer education publication, in this the second of a two-part article concerning content area periodicals for intermediate grade students. (FL)

Censorship pressure has increased dramatically since 1980. Challenges to complaints about books in public libraries have resulted in widely divergent court decisions. The Supreme Court's agreement to review "Pico v. Island Trees Union Free School District" could have a profound impact on the governance of public schools. (Author/WD)

Presents an evaluative analysis of five indexing/abstracting services covering sports and physical education. Data on the scope, arrangement, indexing language, journal coverage, subject access, special features, and use aids in each of the services are presented in four tables. (JL)

This bibliography lists nearly two hundred articles from about forty periodicals and primarily covers material written within the last 10 years. The articles include reports of successful practices, surveys, research summaries, suggestions, reviews, and opinions about mathematics for students with special learning problems. (MP)

The survival of the alumni magazine in its traditional format and the ability to find money to continue publishing during inflationary times are discussed. The "voluntary subscription," direct mail campaign, and the use of advertising are described. (MLW)

A reanalysis of research reported in the "Journal of Industrial Teacher Education" demonstrates a tendency among researchers to base interpretations of data entirely on the results of tests for statistically significant differences. The appraisal suggests that several of the published findings should be reviewed using additional data…

Bibliographies of student papers, student questionnaires, and interviews with library media specialists were examined in studying the use of magazine articles by high school students to fulfill assignments calling for the collection of information on individual topics. Areas examined included context of use, age of materials, title selection, and…

Suggests that faculty advisers to student literary magazines attend to three areas (fiction content, feature materials, and page layout) to ensure a more balanced and successful student publication. (RL)

Creates a scenario for potential future publication of journals in electronic online form, from report writing and text editing at individual terminals to acceptance via electronic mail by publishers to receipt of journal information at subscribers' terminals. (SW)

The images of women in women's magazine fiction in middle class and working class magazines between 1970 and 1975 are compared. (Author/RLV)

Asserts the importance and necessity of reviews of scholarly publications to the researcher. The form, content, and availability of scholarly reviews is discussed. (EJS)

Examines access problems that occur when the citations from indexes for articles in series differ from the way the items are cataloged. A search was conducted in the online catalogs of various libraries and a comparison made between the bibliographic entries found to citations both in electronic indexes and in authors' references. (AEF)

Mistakes made by "U.S. News and World Report" in calculating law school job placement rates have resulted in erroneous rankings of 33 of 50 top schools. For most schools, the revision resulted in movement of only a place or two, but two rankings changed significantly. Educators have long been critical of the rankings, citing a false…

The social structure of women's studies is explored through a bibliometric analysis of all scholarly articles and acknowledgments appearing in three journals over a 20-year period. A content analysis was conducted of all editorial statements published by the journals. Results demonstrate the highly gendered nature of the field and the…

Introduces a special issue of the "Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education." Presents the Dallas (Texas) papers of the MayDay Group, a loosely organized world-wide coalition of music education theorists and practitioners, that critique the book, "Music Matters" (David Elliott). (CMK)