This paper underlines the difficulties of working with looked after children and their carers. The author discusses a particular approach to respond to the complexity of looked after children's emotional difficulties, and their impact on the network of professionals making decisions about their life in care. As their own parents are no longer in a…

Australian research has demonstrated that students with a disability are more likely to remain out of the full-time workforce. These research findings have been the catalyst for a call for a comprehensive career development and transition planning approach for all students with disabilities in schools as well as for employers to rethink the role…

Student security is a composite social practice that includes the domains of consumer rights, entitlement to a range of welfare supports and pastoral care, and freedom from exploitation and discrimination. Three traditions shape the systems used for managing and regulating international student security in the nations that export education:…

Author considered what could be done to foster the need for thinking and acting internationally. (Author/RK)

Indicates that malpractice suits are a new feature in education and explains how teachers, universities, and colleges can protect themselves against this threat. (Author/GS)

This article addresses the policy questions raised in the Doe case by examining the legal issues posed by the plaintiff's complaint and by the defendant's demurrer (a motion to dismiss, asserting that even if all the facts presented by Doe's complaint are true, they do not constitute sufficient grounds for the court to rule in favor of the…

Too many Americans are content to let schools take the rap for society's ills, says an eminent historian who believes that much of education today is "a massive demonstration in hypocrisy." (Editor)

Author critically reviewed the state of education and proposed a thorough reconsideration of its underlying assumptions and of its purposes. (Author/RK)

This paper addresses the need for and importance of integrating nutrition education into the existing preschool curriculum. Following a brief definition of nutrition education according to the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, discussion focuses on determining who is responsible for nutrition education. It is argued that,…

Reviews current school reform efforts and educational trends such as individualized instruction and humanistic education, criticizing them for contributing toward a potential polarization of society. Concludes that such movements may be overemphasizing a reverence for diversity at the expense of the need to cope with its effects. (EH)

A teacher evaluated the status of teaching, the uses of education, and how education may affect the future. (RK)

This article addresses itself to the utopian position that schools can help create societies in which men would sooner devote themselves to the good of the community than to their own self-interest, and in which elitism would not exist. (Author/RK)

AS PREDICTIVE TESTS HAVE BECOME MORE COMMON AND AS THEIR VALIDITY HAS INCREASED, RELEVANT QUESTIONS HAVE SHIFTED FROM WHETHER WE SHOULD TEST TO WHEN, HOW MUCH, OR WHY WE SHOULD TEST. A FIRST ISSUE IN THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PREDICTIVE TESTING IS THE RIGHT OF THE SOCIETY TO REQUIRE ITS MEMBERS TO REVEAL INFORMATION ABOUT THEMSELVES, EVEN THOUGH SUCH…

This annual directory of Canadian public school adult education administrators cites the name, address, and position or affiliation for one Board of Education official in St. John's, Newfoundland, followed by school board officials in 71 Nova Scotia municipalities, three New Brunswick municipalities, 73 in Quebec, 40 in Ontario (including five in…

THE ROLE OF VISUAL SENSORY DEFICIENCIES IN THE CAUSATION READING DISABILITY IS DISCUSSED. PREVIOUS AND CURRENT RESEARCH STUDIES DEALING WITH SPECIFIC VISUAL PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE NEGATIVELY RELATED TO SUCCESSFUL READING ACHIEVEMENT ARE LISTED--(1) FARSIGHTEDNESS, (2) ASTIGMATISM, (3) BINOCULAR INCOORDINATIONS, AND (4) FUSIONAL…