This report explains the roles and responsibilities of schools in dealing with child abuse. The introduction lists child abuse facts and figures, defines child abuse and neglect, provides a rationale for the involvement of educators in treatment and prevention efforts, and considers ethical issues. Chapter 1, which concentrates on keeping abusers…

Workshops concerning adolescent development explored problems of adolescents, schooling and adolescence, preparation for adulthood, leisure and recreation, as well as values, culture, and change in relation to the development of youth. The discussion of adolescents' problems identified major problem areas, (emphasizing problems of communicating…

Eleven influential individuals who have brought breadth of vision to their work in education answer questions and give comments on the next 20 years of education by looking back on the past 20 years. The panelists are: Alonzo Crim, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Georgia; Russell Edgerton, president of the American Association for Higher…

A national, nongovernmental accreditation system is the key to ensuring that education remains fundamentally sound, responsible, responsive, and effective, thereby providing public confidence in the integrity and quality of educational institutions and programs. The Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA) policy on the rights and…

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become an issue that schools must understand, especially in terms of the legal requirements of educating students who contract this disease. In a review of some recent court cases involving children with AIDS, this paper focuses on how to educate these children. Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,…

The use and abuse of alcohol on college campuses is reviewed briefly and administrative responses are described. Campus initiatives include policy formation and enforcement, treatment programs, and prevention activities. Issues related to institutional liability are outlined, and important factors that bear on policy formation are detailed, such…

This document presents guidelines developed by the Los Angeles Unified School District to help strengthen support from parents, the community, and community leaders for the school district's programs. It provides a statement regarding school and parent responsibilities and suggestions for how the school staff and parents, working together, may…

A description is offered of a project successfully carried out by a community college with the aim of bringing together students, local government officials, academicians, and other voters to discuss issues. A television-plus-forum framework made it possible to link resources with problems, academicians with practitioners. (Author/AJ)

This paper discusses the implications for schools, physical education, teachers, and coaches in the increasing tendency of students and/or their parents to resort to legal action in the case of school-related injury. The number of cases involving litigation against these institutions and their personnel has multiplied rapidly. The amount of…

This discussion of the role of general education in community college programs in Ontario begins with an acknowledgement of the absence of a broadly accepted working definition of general education and an admonition to community colleges to accept the responsibility for providing students with a total education. Next, the paper proposes various…

As student college placement and achievement scores continue to evidence a decline in reading, verbal ability, and mathematics competency, it becomes necessary for public educational institutions to recognize the need to re-establish the mission to teach in the area of academic competencies and scholarship, and to diminish the role of surrogate…

The handbook describes the program of the Pasadena Unified School District for Mentally Gifted Minors (MGM). The legal requirements for admission to the program are cited and characteristics (intellectual, physical, and social/emotional) of gifted students are outlined along with possible problems stemming from the identified characteristic. The…

The role and responsibility of the public schools and teachers are described with special emphasis on urban education. The advances that have been made in dealing with disadvantaged youth as well as the problems remaining are pointed out. Sources and uses of federal aid are discussed, but a warning is issued on the dangers of overdependence on the…

The purposes of the second part of a three-phase study were to examine the attitudes of Toronto secondary school students to work and unemployment and to examine the differences in the attitudes held by males, females, and students with varying degrees of work or job search experience. A total of 1,815 were asked to respond to an attitude…