Discussing the changing role of the vocational agriculture teacher, this article relates pertinent questions and suggestions about specific problems facing the local vocational agriculture program to the vocational agriculture teachers. (GB)

Author Lux takes issue with views of Howard Nelson in counseling a former student, Joe," to include pre-vocational and occupational content in his industrial-arts classes. (GB)

Discusses the classroom components of students, learning activities, and program content in relation to the increased demand for more extensive and detailed analysis of financial information, the increased use of automated data processing equipment, and resulting job shifts and the upgrading of skills. (CH)

A critical analysis of the Roberts English materials for grades three through six. (RD)

Provides theoretical and practical information on the use of Outward Bound activities in a mental health setting. First section traces the development of physical activity as an adjunctive psychiatric treatment and then describes a model treatment program for psychiatric patients in the second section. (ERB)

Concludes that learning disabled students using the "Speed Spelling Program" gained in spelling ability, with no student scoring below normal expectancy. Discusses reasons for the program's effectiveness. (FL)

The essential component of every music program should be a general music course, for, in this time of retrenchment, the long range goal of music education should be to initiate a lifetime of musical fulfillment for students. A performance program should also be emphasized. (RM)

Vocational agriculture program participants were interviewed to determine the importance of including instruction in values development for students. Data analysis revealed that enhancing values is an important part of vocational agriculture programs. Students generally rated the importance of each value category lower than teachers,…

Unless education transfers back to the job, training is wasted and its value questioned. This article examines resistance to transfer and provides strategies for building transfer into training design. (CT)

The six essential elements of this model are based on adult learning principles: (1) motivation; (2) ongoing meetings; (3) changes in attitudes, knowledge, and skills; (4) varied formats; (5) small number of participants; and (6) continuous feedback. Comparison with large seminars and individual study illustrates the merits of this format. (SK)

The study reported analyzes the science content of the network nightly television news programs broadcast for a one-year period by the three major television networks. (Author/MK)