200 Africans responded to a questionnaire eliciting recommendations for teaching Americans about Africa. Among them were: avoidance of stereotypes; understanding of African culture; inclusion of North Africa; and, greater emphasis on problems in southern Africa. (DB)

Discussed a teacher survey and their attitudes toward change in education. (RK)

Evidence supporting a widely reported decline in the quality of California public high schools is equivocal at best. Primary sources of this charge--administrators, especially admission officers, at high prestige universities--are themselves the primary sources of the real problems high schools are having. (Author/CJ)

Two themes upon which the operation of the Department of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is based are: (1) Educational institutions are successful when educational traditions are consistent with practices; and (2) the fortunes of a department depend on the field's status and other developments in society as a whole. (CJ)

Instead of being encouraged to act in a professional manner, graduate students are continually reminded of their professional inferiority by the English department. (HOD)

The politicization of education as a means of protecting the rights of children is examined in terms of the objections to it raised by critics and the context within which such politicization has occurred. (JMF)

Based on data from questionnaires concerning 600 parents' reasons for enrolling their children in nursery school, it is suggested that lower-class parents consider preschool education to be more important for boys than for girls. (Author/GC)

Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between adolescent educational expectations and perceived maternal and paternal educational goals for offspring. The statistical effect of perceived maternal goals was 50 percent greater than that of perceived paternal goals, indicating the importance of differentiating between…

Reports results of a questionnaire study designed to obtain information about how businessmen, public officials, industrial workers, administrators, and teachers feel about teacher salaries and tenure, methods of financing public schools, and school fund-raising projects. (JD)

Presents the text of an interview with John Hodgson, British proponent of educational theater. His use of improvisation as a teaching technique and contrasts between the American and British systems of educational theater are discussed. (JMF)

Identifies some career education assumptions, describes the characteristics of experiential learning, and illustrates how experiential learning is suited to address the career education assumptions. (Author)

The author states that schools have public relations whether they want them or not. He presents a practical ten-point checklist for unPR, a method for undoing or reversing or averting bad public relations. (KC)