The author discusses three factors that can be used to prepare in response to the challenges facing industrial education: (1) the quality and quantity of information, (2) risk taking, and (3) the quest for opportunities. (CH)

The author presents issues to stimulate thoughtful analysis and debate and to improve agricultural education programs. Topics include (1) mission and content; (2) clientele; (3) delivery systems; (4) supervised occupational experience programs; (5) the Future Farmers of America; (6) recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers; and (7)…

Evaluates the success of efforts to federally legislate knowledge utilization in Hawaii. Programs in the fields of agriculture, energy, and education are described; examples of federally supported knowledge utilization strategies in the United States are given; and areas where improvement is needed are suggested, including timeliness,…

Provides information to those initiating a vocational transitional program as well as those wanting to improve existing programs. Profiles a northern Illinois special education cooperative that has provided transition assistance for several years. (JOW)

Discusses the operations of the Government Printing Office's Office of Superintendent of Documents and suggests that changes are needed. The depository library program is discussed, government publications are described, the proliferation of publications and other information sources is considered, and issues relating to improvements are raised.…

Seven articles on advisory committees discuss questions for committee development; use of community resources; benefits; commitment and involvement; role in program restructuring; relationship to program success; and ways to optimize benefits. (SK)

Describes the overall evaluation framework that is guiding Missouri's efforts to evaluate comprehensive school guidance programs. Views evaluation as ongoing process designed to improve guidance program. Discusses program, personnel, and results evaluation in an outcome-based framework guided by five questions. (Author/NB)

Expresses gratitude and respect to James Gray, retiring Director of the National Writing Project, and lists assignments Gray has outlined for the National Writing Project. (SR)

Discusses useful ideas about the teaching of writing found in the "Institutes of Oratory" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (A.D. 95) which emphasizes the interrelationship of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Counters 12 current fallacies that militate against reviving such a plan. (NH)

Looks at the status of vocational-teacher-education programs today and describes what Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Virginia tech are doing to revitalize their programs. (JOW)

Describes how the staff in one in-service program attempted to integrate assessment with another in-service program through the development and utilization of an implementation rubric. The rubric provided participants with opportunities to reflect upon their practice, revealed the changes that occurred in participants' classrooms and their…

Describes how Meharry Medical College, a 125-year-old historically Black medical school, was on the brink of closing down, but that through new leadership and partnerships, the school is financially healthy, and its students' board scores are the highest in the school's history. (EV)

Describes types and functions of student contact points in distance education, including academic counseling and library services; proposes a contouring and catchment method to determine the concentration of registered students and prospective candidates; and applies the method to Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for strengthening…

This article reports on the development of the Health and Secondary Conditions Surveillance Instrument Monitoring and Promotion System for use with adults with developmental disabilities. Results of a pilot survey with 119 individuals illustrates how survey data might be used to improve systems of services and supports for this population.…

Describes the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, a dialogical story-based technique that aims to facilitate program improvement by focusing the direction of work towards explicitly valued directions and away from less valued directions. Illustrates the use of MSC in an Australian case study. (SLD)