Reviews the teacher's role, educational gains, and accountability in performance contracting. (MB)

Speech delivered at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6, 1971. (VM)

Reports the implementation of a quality assurance program in Colorado mental health facilities, designed to help managers know how they were doing on operational issues. The program was simple, low cost, and easy to implement. All levels of management found it a useful tool. (Author/WAS)

Discusses legal, ethical, and pragmatic issues concerning psychologists' willingness or unwillingness to share data from Federally sponsored research projects with other researchers and the public. Presents a proposal to mandate data sharing, and discusses technical and ethical costs and benefits of such a proposal. (Author/MJL)

Higher education must make as clear as possible what it intends to do, can do, and will do, and its responsibility for the admission, retention, and graduation of students, planning equal emphasis and enthusiasm on helping students achieve well-defined standards of excellence. (Author/MSE)

A former Australian senator notes that the growth of Australian higher education in relative isolation from the mainstream of Australian society has found the universities inflexible in face of rapid changes in political, social, cultural, and economic values, with little understanding coming from government or the wider community. (Author/MSE)

Reviews research on roles and functions of counseling centers. Examines studies in four time periods, the problems students experience and present to counseling centers, types of services provided, and those writings which have appeared in the literature which describe role and function. A substantial bibliography is appended. (Author/JAC)

Testing and tests are shown to have played a positive and dramatic role in increased opportunities through identification of educational talent. It is argued that tests, far from denying equality, are necessary conditions for equality and quality. (Author/CM)

A judicial decision on issues raised by state diploma denial found that competency testing of Florida's high school students as a graduation requirement violated due process by not providing students with adequate notice. The court prescribed some degree of curricular validity to determine whether the test covered materials actually taught.…