This case study focuses on the role of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UW-EC) in a consortium effort to implement, maintain, and institutionalize individually guided education and the multi-unit elementary school (IGE/MUS-E). The framework for the study is based on the chronological academic involvement of UW-EC with the various facets of…

Writers concerned with the topic of overpopulation have suggested that providing women with more challenging occupational careers will help to reduce the birth rate. Such a contention was not supported by this study of 53 families in which the mother is a practicing physician, attorney, or college professor. While 8 of the couples were childless,…

The New England Program in Teacher Education (NEPTE) sponsored and evaluated five teacher education workshops in 1971. Conferences were held in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island. In each conference a team of participants was assembled and instructed to observe all activities. The participant team talked informally with…

A discussion of the relationship of three key factors to the role of the media specialist in curriculum development. (Author)

A survey indicates that deans of schools of education perceive their responsibilities and powers differently than the colleagues with whom they work. (JD)

Some insights gained in a first principalship are shared in hopes they may prove helpful to other new or aspiring principals in understanding the requirements of the job. (Author/MLF)

The article presents the outcomes of the women's conference, not only as a single event, but also as an analysis of the dynamics that were, and are, currently operating in the women's movement vis-a-vis Hispanic women in general, and Chicanas in particular. (NQ)

A national sample of practicing school psychologists responded to a questionnaire measuring certain demographic characteristics and their perceptions of their training, practice, preferred job, and competence. Differences are examined for job setting (urban-rural), degree field (school psychology-other), and degree level (doctoral-subdoctoral). (…

The Education for All Handicapped Children (P. L. 94-142) is briefly reviewed, and the role of the pediatrician in identifying and delivering services to handicapped children, and in affecting public policy formation is discussed. Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. (CL)

Physical educators must expand the concept of physical education if it is to be successful as an academic discipline and teach their students to use knowledge of human movement to solve expanding problems in nonteaching fields. (MJB)

The author examines the process of psychological adaptation for a handicapped child and his family, with particular emphasis on the physician's role in the process. (SBH)

The article identifies roles that co-workers have assumed in providing support to employees with handicaps including validating instructional strategies, collecting subjective evaluations, implementing training procedures, collecting social comparison information, and maintaining behavior in the context of actual employment. (Author/DB)

A more dynamic conceptualization of gender role is presented, focusing on social psychological ambivalence and developmental alienation. Current research findings are interpreted with regard to these concepts, and directions for future research are discussed. (Author/BL)

Examines the age-at-marriage/marital instability relationship in a national sample (N=1,715). Results suggested that the relationship could be largely explained by inadequate role performance, though the specific inadequacies in performance differed somewhat for the early and later marrieds. (NRB)

Asserts the need for good research is common for people involved with performance and instruction issues, and stresses interdependence of research and field workers. Discusses principles of objectivity, precision, and empiricism in good research. Examples illustrate how methods of practitioners are improved through application of these principles.…