Nationwide attention should increasingly be focused on the failure of schools to ensure that all their students adequately learn the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Indepth legal and social science research with respect to remedies for this situation should be undertaken as a priority. (Author/DN)

Colleges and universities are showing signs of being affected by an emerging ethical crisis (misrepresentation of the job market to graduates, term paper companies, misallocations in financial aid); the needed cure seems to be in better conceptual organization of higher education institutions. (Author/PG)

Convivial access, described as a way to allow people the most autonomous action by means of learning resources and tools least controlled by others, would counteract the schools' current monopolistic control over student learning by changing approaches to freedom, responsibility, and choice. (DW)

Although medical malpractice suits are based on a model of treatment of an individual by a professional, educational malpractice suits are based on a group treatment model. When the medical model and the teaching model are compared, the contrasts are so great that medical malpractice principles are not a reliable guide to the emerging law of…

The term "human resource development" is used to include both staff development activities designed to upgrade the professional qualifications of educators, and to signify society's efforts to enable all citizens to realize their full potential. Changes in society over the past 20 years have broken down the boundaries between schools and…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to help Lutheran communities assess the feasibility of starting a Lutheran elementary school and to assist ongoing schools in current operation, this volume focuses on curriculum development. It is divided into four parts. The first part deals with the curriculum study committee, its organization and scope of…

Despite the difficulty inherent in counting dropouts, it can be estimated that about 45 percent of the ninth graders in New York City public high schools drop out before completing their high school education. These dropouts, characteristically, have experienced academic failure and will probably continue to experience failure after they leave…

Information about the dropout problem in Iowa (in 1963-64) is presented in this document. This state-wide survey sought to determine the number of dropouts and their reasons for leaving school, to explore dropout rehabilitation possibilities, and to develop methods for early identification of potential dropouts. Data are reported in a number of…

Educational accountability can be defined as the assigning of responsibility for educational outcomes. It has two essential dimensions--access to information about performance and the ability to change those factors thought to be responsible for unsatisfactory performance. While there are necessarily many parties held accountable in the schooling…

This bibliography, the 6th in a series of reports dealing with accountability, is designed to provide those interested in assessment and accountability with a ready reference for identifying articles relevant to their individual needs. The citations are listed under a general section, the ERIC files section, and the CAP section. Entries within…

Four main objectives of the conference reported in these proceedings were: (1) to provide a basic orientation for two-year college faculty and administrative personnel as to what student attrition is and the types of impact that it has upon the institutional setting; (2) to interpret the vocabulary pertinent to student attrition, identifying new…

A report is made of a study concerning ways by which both elementary and secondary schools can motivate students to become interested in continuing their education throughout their lifetime. The body of the report, consisting of four chapters written by four different authors, contains suggestions as to ways in which the schools in the United…

In order to supply drug education guidelines for its schools, the Michigan State Board of Education created an advisory council of professionals from the fields of drugs and education, parents, and high school and college students. The council developed the present set of guidelines designed to define the role of the school in drug education and…

Contends that if school systems and their professionals carry out their legal and professional responsibilities to their handicapped students the likelihood of judicial intervention is minimized. (Author/MLF)