The relationship between social and economic classification, mobility, and continuance in school was examined in the municipalities of San Andres Cholula, San Gregorio Atzompa, and San Felipe Teotlalcingo (Mexico). The premise was that the school was not a mobilizing agent within the community, but rather served to stabilize existing social and…

The conference and the papers presented in this volume grew out of the conviction of a random group of persons who discovered, quite by chance, a shared concern: that serious consequences are falling to higher education as a result of financial procedures intended to meet the crisis of survival. It is obvious that survival and solvency are not…

The outline lists 14 career education activities that middle school teachers (grades 6-8) can relate to subject areas of: science, mathematics, English, social studies, foreign language, art, home economics, music, and industrial arts. Educational requirements are described for various occupations; occupations also are listed under appropriate…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Plants and Photosynthesis; The Human Digestive System; Functions of the Blood; Human Circulation and Respiration; Reproduction of a Single Cell; Reproduction by Male and Female Cells; The Human Reproductive System; Genetics and Heredity; The Nervous…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Difficult Words to Spell; Sentences and Their Parts; Adjectives and Adverbs; Comparative Forms; Spelling ie and ei Words; Using Negatives Correctly; Using Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases; Spelling - ance and ence Words; Subject and Object Pronouns;…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Spelling Endings Added to e; Capitalization; Question Marks and Exclamation Points; Quotation Marks; Spelling Double Letter Demons; Colons and Dashes; Punctuating Series with Commas and Semicolons; More Confusing Word Pairs; Separating Sentence Parts with…

This study surveyed 850 students and 150 faculty advisers in one undergraduate college in order to determine the amount and nature of student-faculty contacts and referrals to other student personnel agencies. The findings do not support the contention that faculty advising is a satisfactory substitute for other student personnel services. (Author)

Describes Scottish Central Institutions, which provide higher education mostly at degree level or the equivalent. Summarizes differences between the universities and the Central Institutions in the areas of vocational aims and objectives, teaching and validation, student applications, funding, and staff establishment. (JHZ)

Relationships were studied between educational direction (academic or vocational) and three aspects of the sociopolitical ideology of 532 Swedish high school students. Vocational students were consistently more conservative than academic students on factors linked to social conservatism, whereas differences linked to political-economic…

In this article problems with separate vocational schools today, considering current political and economic conditions, are discussed. Among the problems examined are social segregation of students and teachers, additional operating costs, and curriculum isolation. The authors propose that the comprehensive high school approach to secondary…

Contains "Adult Learner and the Perkins Act" (Terry); "Special Needs Provisions of the Perkins Act" (Cobb, Kingsbury); "Strengthening the Academic Foundations of Vocational Education" (Parks, Henderson); "Planning New Directions for Consumer and Homemaking Education" (Kister, Smith, Hughes); "Sex Equity…

Examined differences in career maturity among four curriculum groups: academic, business, technical, and general. In Study I, administered Crites' Career Maturity Inventory to students in grades 9-12. In Study II, administered a specially developed measure of career development to students in grade 12. Results indicated that the academic group…

The problem of combining academic goals and industry-oriented education in a manner benefiting students, society, and the economy is examined in the context of a research unit within a Romanian university's electrical engineering faculty. Questions of equipment, funding, student personal development, and appropriateness of technological…

Trustees often confess to confusion about the responsibility of the governing board for the academic programs and policies of higher education institutions. During the 20th century, the teaching and research missions of American colleges and universities progressively became the special domain of the faculty. As academic disciplines became…

"National CrossTalk" is a publication of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. The National Center promotes public policies that enhance opportunities for quality education and training beyond high school. The primary purpose of "National CrossTalk" is to stimulate informed discussion and debate of higher…