Author maintains that the very survival of school guidance and counseling is threatened. He suggests that fuzzy and overly inclusive priorities and inefficient, ineffective delivery systems are the reason. He concludes that counselors must get back to basics and implement a systematic approach to the delivery of services. (Author/HMV)

Why and how college counseling centers should be evaluated. (Author)

Defines management by objectives as a technique enabling administrators to address themselves directly to the goals of the institution, to delegate responsibilities to meet these objectives, and realize internal accountability. Presents a rationale for the system, results of surveys and research projects investigating management problems and…

The author describes his experience with an educational audit at Laredo Junior College in Texas and says that the audit is a fast, inexpensive way of evaluating vocational programs that provides immediate feedback. (MF)

Traces the development of the American television industry as a major unelective source of power, cause of changes in social behavior, and factor in the management of the economy. Suggests ways to make use of educational broadcasting and to initiate a mechanism for critical analysis of the institutional structure of television. (Author/AV)

Counselors must face the realities of the new consumer movement not as a threat, but as simply another stimulus toward professional accountability. (Author)

Delineates the problems and procedures involved in establishing and operating a board for periodic review of cases of children in foster care which enlisted the cooperation of court, agency professionals and the community. (BR)

Describes a program that makes a teacher accountable for students' failures. A prototype system for diagnosis, prescription, implementation, and collection of feedback is being tested in three high school elementary algebra classes, and preliminary results show a 40 percent decrease in student failures. (VT)

Due to a lack of standardized testing instruments, there is a need for focusing attention on well-organized test construction by individual teachers for evaluation knowledge attainment levels in health education. (MB)

Many developing trends will have major impact on both trustees and physical plant administrators. Face-to-face contact between the two will help both and benefit the institutions, especially regarding accountability, technological change, and regulations on the handicapped. (Editor/LBH)

Problems addressed include: the relevance of current law curriculum to the needs and demands of society, the connection between the legal campus' static environment and evolving needs of society, and the integration of the law school into the culture it claims to serve. (Author/LBH)

Trustees have the responsibility of helping clarify and develop the educational program and also of making sure academic employment policies are equitable and sensible. (Editor/LBH)

Australian education is competing with other areas of government spending for funding, and its advocates must increasingly legitimize their claims. Education decision-makers must work to get as much funding as possible to its programs and ensure that program output accommodates the wishes of those producing them and those funding them. (MSE)

Refutes Seymour Papert's premises because they: (1) maintain that computer criticism goes through developmental stages; (2) overlook the fact that the computer's newness in education affects the way people speak of computers; and (3) deny the necessity that teaching LOGO, like other pedagogies, should be accountable to experimental research. (PS)

Agrees with Seymour Papert that conventional experimentation has shortcomings when used to study effects of educational programs. Cites three research methods that, in combination, can compensate for the shortcomings of both conventional research and the computer criticism suggested by Papert. (PS)