Furnishing textbooks at the expense of the community, free to the individual school children, is not a new idea in the United States. It began as a movement in city school administration nearly a century ago. Philadelphia made provisions for free textbooks in 1818. Other cities, principally in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts,…

This report summarizes employment information and college enrollment for AISD's 1996-1997 senior high school students.

Discusses the problems of translating children's books into English and the need for children's fiction in translation to be available to young readers. (TO)

The training of heavy-equipment operators poses special problems. Ideas concerning meeting the Canadian skilled operator shortage, short-term training, long-term training, client selection, and institutional training, costs, methods, and procedures are raised for consideration in future training programs. (AG)

The employment opportunities of the homebound are being expanded by computer-telecommunications developments. A joint conference on "New Patterns of Work Organization in An Information Era: Some Employment Implications for Homebound Individuals," held in Ohio in June 1973, is reviewed. (MS)

Summarizes the recommendations made by the Panel on Chemical and Health of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Indicates the need of research in the biological effect of chemicals and a scientific flexibility rather than legal rigidity in their regulation. (CC)

Describes the daily work activities of one Susan Beckett, a Chicago-based consultant for Motivational Learning Programs, Inc. (GB)

Reports on a recent decision of the United States Court of Claims in Washington which permits the National Institutes of Health library and the National Library of Medicine to photocopy copyrighted scientific articles for researchers without paying royalties to Williams and Wilkins Company, a medical publisher. (JR)

Discussed the history of guidance, questions concerning the significance of vocational guidance and provided a model for some future challenges to guidance. (Author/RK)

Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1. (DD)

Summarizes discussions made at the first National Conference on Standards for Environmental Improvement. Indicates the presence of contradictions between industry and governmental agencies in terms of current environmental standards and their congressionally mandated deadlines as well as interpretation of environmental research data. (CC)

An overview of the development of electronic media. Governance of television both as entertainment and journalism and its relationship with broadcast advertising is discussed. Cable television, its potential for the future, and how the Federal Communications Commission must develop a new regulatory rationale to deal with new problems are…

Analyzes trends in the column inches of position open'' advertising carried in this magazine every week in terms of the unemployment rates of chemists and technical and professional personnel published since 1965. Indicates a positive relationship among the calculation results. (CC)