Efforts underway in New York to establish statewide academic standards are described. The responsibility of different individuals and groups and the need for special programs are also discussed. (GC)

It appears that the science achievement of children in schools is less encouraging than it was a decade ago. Data supporting this claim are presented from several sources. (BB)

This model examines the theory, clinical process, and intervention techniques of behavioral consultation in educational and medical settings. Behavioral consultation requires empirical validation of intervention. It also holds the counselee accountable for consultations. The consultant has many techniques, but must be sensitive to interaction…

The retreat from social and racial progress is examined as an outgrowth of Vietnam, the changing temper of intellectuals, and the slowing of economic growth. Some effects of the country's mood on education are discussed, including tuition increases, faculty salaries, and accountability. (LBH)

Considers the adverse criticism of the public school system in the United States to be unjustified and unwarranted. (RL)

The issue for the decade ahead is no longer whether states will use their power to require increased accountability, initiate more detailed budget review, and seek influence over what colleges teach and to whom, but how they will use it. Economic and demographic changes, access and economic barriers, remediation, quality and effectiveness, and…

Attempts to define the essence of the PBTE approach, analyzes the absence of a research base connecting teacher behavior and student learning and the inadvisability of construing teacher education as a problem of developing effective teachers, as well as arguing that PBTE is a political and educational movement. (Author/RK)

Recommends that teachers develop their own ideas and methods for teaching, that these ideas and methods be stated in behavioral terms, and that teachers evaluate their own teaching. Aids to help teachers develop a self-certification system are presented. (Author/DB)

Accountability sets forth the procedure--who is answerable to whom and for what. Accountability is not the responsibility of just on echelon in the hierarchical system of school administration. It is a joint and cooperative undertaking. It includes the parents, community, board of education, administrators and teachers. (Author)

The current focus in education is on the individual's right to expect results from the educational system and for accountability from educational personnel. Discusses the need for individual student diagnosis with some related learning prescriptions. (Author/RK)

Focuses on the State University of New York at Albany Education Consortium Task Group efforts to state the broad guidelines and concepts upon which business education teacher competencies necessary for certification are based. (TA)

In this description of Michigan's state-wide testing program, implemented in 1969, to measure "educational health", the tests are designed to be administered to students in the fourth, seventh and tenth grades, and provide reports on individual students, classroom profiles, and school and district summaries. The author believes the…

Competency-based vocational education is defined and broken down into ten basic components (e.g., developing occupational inventories, needed materials, and lesson plans; analyzing occupational survey data and existing materials; updating the task analysis; and revising). Pointers for checking the system and moving it to higher levels of…

Six major goals derived from a definition of career education are discussed in an attempt to assess the effectiveness and success of the career education movement. (BM)

Based on experiences at the Toronto Board of Education, the author comments on a paper criticizing the role and decision-making processes of another Canadian educational board. (GW)