Describes a program called Athletes for a Better Education (AFBE) which is a year-round academic-athletic-counseling program for outstanding high school athletes. It consists of three phases: a summer residential camp; follow-up programs; college placement and culminating activities. Discusses the current collegiate-athletic scandals. (RC)

Studied a national database employed to examine the educational participation behavior of adults 60 years and older. Participation rates, subjects studied, reasons for participation, and locations utilized for learning were found to vary significantly in relation to relative age, educational attainment, sex, race, income, and other participant…

Reports on a longitudinal study of Finnish student development in literacy skills, especially reading skills. Notes that children from the rural northern areas gained most in test-intelligence and literacy skills, catching up with their coevals from the southern and urban areas. (RL)

Describes a school district's efforts to make teachers, parents, and students more aware of the importance and fun of reading. (RL)

The author suggests that the primary purpose of vocational education is to promote human development by exposing the learner to intrinsically meaningful activities. The criterion for evaluating vocational education from this perspective is the growth of students' personal qualities. (SK)

This field report from a Catholic liberal arts college for women suggests that, in any environment, a holistic approach to moral development is possible by challenging students to integrate their knowledge with their actions and to deal with inherent values issues both in and out of the curriculum. (Author)

Discusses the concept of student development, suggests an organizing framework for categorizing its more specific aspects, and illustrates theory application in educational opportunity programing. Student development programs have been hindered by inadequate definitions of student development concepts and the goals they are designed to achieve.…

Chief student personnel administrators for small/rural community colleges were surveyed to compare their student personnel programs to a major student development model, so as to provide for a basis for comparison of small college student personnel programs. A profile of chief personnel administrators of small colleges is described. (RC)

Sketches the historical movement from orality to literacy, as described by Walter J. Ong, and discusses some general suggestions for teaching writing in a developmental sequence. (Author/GT)

Intellectualism and impersonalism are seen as making many academic activities miseducative. It is advocated that academics organize curricular and extracurricular activities to direct students toward an understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. [This issue commemorates JHE's 50th year. Reprints of notable articles (HE 511…

For student organizations to bring realism into vocational education and develop a sense of vocationalism in students, organization activities must originate with the vocational curriculum, fund-raising should relate to the curriculum, and all members encouraged to participate. Wise use of student organizations can promote student learning and…

Emphasizes that appropriate redirecting of traditional teacher/counselor roles and greater involvement from parents, community agencies, and industries is needed to meet the career education needs of handicapped students. Discusses preservice and inservice training, describe an inservice model (a 4-day workshop), and outlines a career education…

A college admissions counselor needs not only to be aware of career trends in a wide variety of fields, but he or she must also have a working knowledge of what abilities and personal characteristics these careers require. The admissions counselor now must be concerned with the prospective student's entire life. (Author)

Counselors must recognize that most intelligence tests measure a sample of the childs' intellectual functioning on a variety of tasks rather than innate potential. Intelligence varies depending on personality, development, and environmental influences. (Author/HLM)

Critics of testing have raised relevant issues about the use of tests. Most concerns relate to abuses made in construction, selection, administration, scoring, and interpretation of standardized tests. The educator could respond by deciding not to use tests. Unfortunately, this cure would be worse than the disease itself. (Author)