Reviews the role of athletic trainers in New York State secondary schools. Discusses the need for trainers to provide emergency medical care for sports injuries and to develop prevention programs. Reviews efforts to obtain certification for trainers from the New York State Education Department. (FMW)

Summarizes the characteristics of a winning school board team and provides a "togetherness index" to help boards evaluate their effectiveness. (MLF)

Discusses significant new developments in the electronic search process: (1) New Government Automation; (2) New Federal Initiatives; (3) New Telecommunications Services; (4) Campus Data Bases; (5) Off-Campus Data Bases; (6) Faxed or E-Mailed Resumes; (7) Automation of 3rd-Party Recruiters; (8) New Cyberservices; (9) Interview-Prep Software; (10)…

Describes results of a survey of librarians conducted using the Internet, regarding their attitudes toward electronic mail and networking. Topics addressed include software; the effect on job descriptions; privacy issues; use in academic libraries; navigation problems; discussion groups; and perceived value. A sidebar discusses network etiquette.…

The computer industry is growing at a phenomenal rate as technology advances and prices fall, stimulating unprecedented demand from business, government, and individuals. Higher levels of education will be the key to securing employment as organizations increasingly rely on sophisticated technology. (Author)

Uses a multidimensional approach to explore occupational gender type for 100 occupational titles. Occupational images were primarily structured on two orthogonal dimensions: prestige and gender type. Findings from a sample of 125 undergraduates support the multidimensional approach. Also, even though the prestige and gender-type factors were…

This special issue includes reviews of 32 books on the following topics: management, human resources, and organizational development; career counseling, guidance, and assessment; job search; resumes; careers in specific fields; careers for special populations; career transitions; and finding balance. (SK)

To assist adolescents with career exploration, counselors should help students identify their unique interests, skills, and personality characteristics; distinguish among several broad occupational areas; learn about different educational options as related to career choices; identify future decisions needed to achieve various goals; and make…

Maintains that past research has identified overeducation and overtraining in terms of the worker's attained schooling from the estimated required schooling of the worker's occupation. Asserts that overeducation is a valid indicator of whether workers possess productive skills that are not utilized. (CFR)

Improving the leadership skills of the school business manager will promote organizational structure, norms, and policies. A district staff-development program in consensus skills can simultaneously address problems and develop skills. (MLF)

Fuller, Blume, and Johnston describe uses of the My Vocational Situation instrument with 181 freshmen in summer orientation at the University of Missouri. Rakes explains ways the university's career center takes career information out to the campus through presentations and materials distribution. (SK)

Survey responses from 1,045 school board members show that a slight majority (51.6%) do not perceive violence as a problem in their district. Charts illustrate board members' perceptions of the relative effectiveness of various programs to control violence, and sidebars summarize demographic information about participants. (MLF)

With scant resources but boundless commitment, Charles Johnson, superintendent in a rural Mississippi district, takes pride in stretching school funds. The district has never run a deficit or borrowed to make ends meet. (MLF)

A comprehensive series of 12 courses provides school facilities planners with the knowledge to make demographically responsible and educationally sound recommendations about present and future educational facility needs. (MLF)

A sample of 1,601 female and 1,344 male seventh and eighth graders from large or small schools viewed videotapes of occupations presented either by job title or job description. Boys perceived fewer than half of the careers as more appropriate for one gender, girls one-third. Job titles elicited more sex-typing among girls than did job…