A variety of sub-roles prevents the college professor from meeting his teaching responsibility. (IR)

Urges greater involvement of international students and professors in social science education. (MS)

Review of the aims, basic precepts and successes of "The Fundamentals of Human Sex and Sex Education" course whose primary function is to teach future sex educators. (IR)

Presents parents' attitudes on who should plan their schools' sex education programs, and a discussion of alternatives. (DE)

Many institutions are reviewing their consulting policy statements to determine their adequacy in light of pressures to more closely monitor outside work by their faculty. Confusion and confrontation over "control" of noninstitutional work for compensation is present. (Author/MLW)

Examined the relationship of teacher life position, teacher dogmatism, perceived consultant facilitativeness, years of teacher teaching experience and number of consultations per year to the consultation outcomes of teacher satisfaction, teacher strength, and problem resolution. The consultant's perceived facilitativeness was the main predictor of…

As applied at Lincoln Elementary School in Evansville (Indiana), the Teacher-Directed Inservice Education Program allowed teachers to direct their own learning by contracting for consultation during regular school hours to meet specific needs. The program meets seven guidelines suggested for effective inservice education, including administrator…

The planning and merchandising strategies behind a new cooperative college store building and customer circulation concept are outlined. The facility allows for both current marketing needs and future flexibility as the store expands its role. (MSE)

Discusses a series of six studies that investigated the performance of 66 reading and learning disabilities specialists and classroom teachers who diagnosed simulated reading or learning disability cases and suggested remediation plans. Results indicate that both commonality and individual agreement among participants was very low. (AEA)

Reports on a concerted effort by consultant-scholars to influence the portrayal of drinking on television by working cooperatively with media writers, directors, and producers, while avoiding the pitfalls of traditional pressure group practices. Content analyses of prime-time programs were used as the basis of the appeal to change media messages.…

The Detroit Center for Professional Growth and Development, a state-funded teacher center, has prepared a computerized data bank to study patterns of relationships among selected staff development and school characteristics. A description of what the staff development data bank contains and how it obtains information is given. (JN)

This extract from the author's doctoral thesis reports on a survey of Minnesota school board chairpersons, superintendents, and school attorneys on the role of the school district attorney. The results showed that attorneys perceived themselves as more responsible and involved in decision-making than did the administrators. (Author/RW)

Discusses the process by which the Weston (Massachusetts) Public Schools chose a secondary school core curriculum. Describes six issues the district had to settle, three guidelines it followed in planning its curriculum choice process, and the seven-step process it used to define its core curriculum. (RW)

The use of networking in the continuing education of nurses is examined as it applies to a federally funded, maternal-child health project. Aspects of the Project that are discussed include: project implementation, needs assessment, barriers, use of consultants, project participants, and evaluation of project success. (CT)

Reports on a study that examined whether different school staff members agreed on the importance of various roles performed by reading specialists. (FL)