Describes educational activities of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific including learning packets on various astronomy concepts, Morrison lectures, newspaper columns, teacher workshops, cosponsoring astronomy oriented lectures, and providing speakers for various groups. (DS)

Discusses community colleges' need to respond to the increasing focus on lifelong learning. Summarizes federal policy-making procedures, initiated by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges and the National Council on Community Services and Continuing Education, and emphasizes the importance of cooperation between the institution…

Capsulizes the main premises of the articles in the UCLA Educator Winter 1980 issue on laboratory schools (EJ 228 397-405), focusing on issues of mission, support, and laboratory schools in a nonuniversity setting. (CAM)

Some comments on cooperation between teachers and schools to facilitate smooth transitions for students as they advance from one school to another. (MK)

There was little or no involvement on the part of educators in the formative stages of the youth employment legislation of the 1970s. With an array of bills being introduced in Congress in support of reauthorization of youth employment legislation, it is time for our educational systems to trade nonparticipation for cooperation. (CT)

Examines the background of the upper-division university and its place in postsecondary education. Identifies its major role as one of serving students transferring from community colleges. Discusses successful projects and points up poor communication and coordination between upper-level universities and two-year colleges as the most damaging…

Briefly reviews the past ten years of activities of the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, whose goals focus on experimentation in teaching and learning, the exchange of results in these areas, and the evaluation of innovative practices on students and the community. (MB)

Describes a service system designed to deal effectively with conflicts caused by decreased enrollments, reduced school revenues, increased cost of district operation, and demands for more information by federal, state, and district personnel. (Author/MA)

The importance of a proper charge to the planning office is discussed as a means of achieving integrated planning. It is suggested that the planning office's role should be clearly coordinative in nature and that planning must be a regularly scheduled activity resulting in the allocation, reallocation, and effective use of resources. (Editor/LBH)

The functions and purposes of the newly founded National Association of Parish Coordinators are discussed. (RW)

Ten graduate students piloted co-inquiry with elementary school children, learning ways to develop questioning skills in students and teachers, modeling and practicing question formation, developing higher-order questions, using graphic organizers for data, mediating questioning sequences, and actively soliciting lines of questioning. (SK)

Postsecondary and elementary-secondary teaching have both similarities and differences. Rather than continuing a divisive, adversarial relationship, pre-K-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators should envision and enact a view of education as a continuum. (SK)

The Vermont Independent Services Team Approach (VISTA), is a cross-disciplinary method for planning consensus decisions about type, mode, and frequency of related services required to support a student's educational program. After six student planning teams used the VISTA model, team members reported higher levels of confidence in team practices…

In a collaboration between a nutrition department and a university writing center, students practiced developing articles and research papers and were guided through the writing process; 25 of 44 students had their manuscripts published in diverse newsletters. (SK)

The position and role of Catholic higher education in the ongoing globalization of higher education are discussed. Presents arguments in favor of the participation of Catholic universities in the processes of globalization while, at the same time, remaining true to their basic Christian values; the axis of this participation should be serving "as…