Describes the average junior college newspaper, as determined by a study of 502 junior college newspapers; reports that the best newspapers recruited staff members primarily from journalism classes, emphasized AP/UPI newspaper style in all articles, compensated staff members either financially or with academic credit, and emphasized adequate…

If schools rush into Back-to-Basics the way they once rushed into open education, educational quality will not improve and the positive, humanistic attributes of progressive education may be lost. Change must be slowly and carefully planned and provide adequate support to the teachers who must implement it. (SJL)

The author suggests subjects and methods for including word processing competencies in office curriculums pending implementation of curriculum revisions. She discusses word processing concepts and processes, communication skills, equipment skills, and supervision skills. (MF)

The article outlines procedures for the marketing and distributive education teacher to use in guiding students toward career planning and decision making. Resources to aid students and teachers include tests, publications, computerized information systems, and community resources. (MF)

Probes the benefits and a few drawbacks of teleconferencing. Suggests users benefit by exchanging information, discussing policies, coordinating facilities, forecasting trends, solving problems, clarifying course topics, reinforcing learning, saving travel money and administrative time, and involving junior level people. Compares phone…

The article examines the effects of environmental space and group composition on the psychological and social development of preschool handicapped children. (CL)

Provides guidelines for job interview preparation. Discusses effective interview communications with emphasis on potential employer questions and applicant's answers, nonverbal behavior, and questions to employer. Suggests followup measures. Lists fifty typical employer questions and fourteen negative factors leading to rejection. (CSS)

The article presents a theoretical framework for evaluating the utility of consumer product testing methods involving four factors which determine a method's utility, validity, reliability, manageability, and essentiality. The framework is applied to three situations, including comparative evaluation of test methods, comparative product testing,…

A primary rule for implementing the collective bargaining grievance process in higher education is to settle early and at the lowest possible level. To achieve this or to prevent grievances, clear contract language, a contract administrator, and a "two-one-one" grievance structure should be adopted. (Author/JMD)

School health and physical education programs are encouraged to increase scheduled time and incorporate regular endurance and physical fitness activities into other programs to reduce the risk factors of coronary heart disease. (JMF)

After briefly describing the Community Experiences for Career Education project, this paper discusses 11 evaluation strategies used with the project, assesses the strengths and limitations of each, shows some relationships among them, discusses ways of communicating evaluation findings, and suggests selection criteria to others planning multiple…

The distributive education teacher-coordinator must plan study tour and classroom learning experiences in much the same way, according to the author. She suggests involving students in planning as much as possible and presents a step-by-step planning guide for tour objectives, places to visit, travel arrangements, financing, and advance…

Ideas intended for use in a high school biology laboratory are given. Swordtail fish are described as subjects for observation in animal behavior studies. (SA)

The hazards associated with recombinant DNA research are presented along with some social implications and the development of recombinant DNA research guidelines by the National Institutes of Health. (SA)

Presents specific guidelines which content-oriented science teachers can follow in order to develop subject-matter comprehension, decision-making skills, and values/moral clarification and reasoning processes in their students. (Author/HM)