Four papers resulting from the fifth of a series of conferences on bilingual education are presented. "Current Perspectives" (L. Leann Parker, Shirley Brice Heath) discusses the status of bilingual education policy and related issues, including the problems of definition and goals, assessing bilingual education's effectiveness, program…

The first in a series of papers by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation on policy issues in early childhood care and education, this report describes the status of early childhood care and education in the United States in the 1980s, with emphasis on publicly funded programs. First presented are data from the October 1980 Current…

The Monitoring Commisssion was created in 1976 by the U.S. District Court to: (1) audit the efforts of the Detroit, Michigan public school system as it implemented a court-ordered desegregation program, (2) inform the community; and (3) advise the court. This Commission Report on the assessment process and its findings has six major sections as…

This guide is designed to serve as a reference for both beginning and experienced teachers in a preemployment laboratory that is part of a coordinated vocational-academic education program. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: student eligibility and approved coordinated vocational-academic programs, safety…

This handbook is designed to serve as a reference for office education instructors. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: design and delivery of office education, teacher qualifications and certification requirements, cooperative programs, preemployment laboratory programs, advisory committees, public…

In this commentary, Richard Schwier draws observations of what he believes are key issues in e-learning that come directly out of "A Review of e-Learning in Canada." However, much of the commentary is consumed by topics that haven't yet generated the volume or type of research necessary to allow the kind of compressed scrutiny that this…

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing students' satisfaction and dissatisfaction with an Online Learning Community (OLC). The OLC was a Web-based system that was used to supplement school science curriculum. Data was collected from 62 Korean high school students using an open-ended questionnaire. The factors related to…

Teacher attrition is a concern in all educational sectors but is of special importance to Catholic schools because of the salary disparity between public and Catholic schools. This review examines the research on teacher retention in general with a view to understanding how this knowledge might inform teacher recruitment and retention strategies…

Reports of 10 career education miniconferences for postsecondary practitioners are contained in this document. (Conference objectives included bringing together individuals active in implementing career education at the postsecondary level, collecting examples of successful practice, identifying practical problems in implementing career education,…

Major elements of the British experience with career education from which implications for American education can be drawn are addressed in this report, which (1) reviews British research and theoretical literature pertinent to current counselor roles, changes in counselor roles since 1965, forces shaping counselor roles, relationship of counselor…

This final report of the Family Development Research Program contains a description of the program's comprehensive family service approach to promoting child development and the longitudinal findings on program effectiveness. The program offered comprehensive services to 108 families which were low in both income and education. Services included:…

The booklet is a guide for community resource people who have agreed to share their job experiences with high school students involved in experience-based learning programs. The programs allow students to observe and participate in the daily routines required in careers they may wish to pursue. Resource people can use this booklet to determine how…

The workshop was attended by some 200 people concerned with increasing the participation of Blacks, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians in the engineering profession. Its purposes were to update an overview of the programs at engineering schools and the problems still remaining to be solved for minority engineering students, and…

This paper outlines a new way of defining the scope and domain of citizen education within the social studies curriculum. It is intended to help educators better attain their particular goals and expand their vision of citizenship education. The paper is divided into three parts. Part I emphasizes that the narrow, traditional definition of the…

The 1974 Educational Testing Service (ETS) Measurement Award was presented to J.P. Guilford at the ETS Invitational Conference. Irving Kristol, in "Moral and Ethical Development in a Democratic Society," called for the restoration of authority within our major social institutions, especially schools. Martin Trow examined the effects of the college…