The priorities regarding extracurricular activities are seriously distorted. For example, yearbooks, like sports, are becoming too expensive, time consuming, and mere public relations tools. Education and student enjoyment should be the first priorities for extracurricular activities. (SK)

Addresses key issues in union education in Britain: widening participation, the role of education, expansion, and accreditation. (SK)

Discusses the field of knowledge management and professional opportunities for librarians. Highlights include differences between knowledge management and traditional library approaches; solutions beyond technology; community of practice (COP); new librarians skills; information technology competition; cost effectiveness; best practice approaches;…

Describes how high school and college tennis coaches can prepare their athletes for competitive success, noting factors involved in performance excellence and presenting the BADGE instructional framework, which teaches players that their efforts are the greatest single influence upon future results. The paper explains the importance of positive…

Uses positional conflict theory to examine New Zealand's National Certificate of Educational Achievement, purportedly an opportunity for working-class students. Analyzes the position of these students in a market-led, government-developed training system that replaces traditional job networks. Argues that the system is a mechanism for low-skill…

This study examined the hypothesis that group size can influence whether 9- to 10-year-olds display self-assertive versus self-deprecating responses to interpersonal competition, especially under stress. Findings indicated that individuals displayed more assertive behaviors during competitive game-playing in groups than in dyads, and more…

A study of the impact of international competition on union and nonunion wages found that international competition was a significant determinant and that the net negative effect of a given import share of union and nonunion wages decreased sharply in absolute magnitude as the percentage of organized workers increased. (Author)

A total of 80 Israeli 5, 7, and 10 year olds working in either a match-the-standard or a competitive condition copied a drawing and then evaluated their copies. Competing 5 year olds overestimated the quality of their copies. With age, self-assessments became less positive and better correlated with adult judgments. (RH)

Argues that traditional requirements that a counterplan cannot be topical should be reconsidered by the policy debate community. Contends that the acceptance of the topical counterplan reduces the schism between theory and practice in debate. (MS)

Because proposals differ, educators and administrators must study the rationale of research findings on, and requirements of, particular school choice programs. Well-designed choice plans are not panaceas, but can help produce significant, widespread improvement, as seen in East Harlem, New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Minneapolis-St. Paul,…

The first paper discusses the factors involved in a decision to provide document delivery services, including user needs, competitive climate, business potential, fit with current business, and logistics of providing the service. The second reviews the kinds of additional products that can be developed as a byproduct of conventional database…

Summarizes one expert's structural approach to cooperative learning, including its positive effects on social behavior and race relations. Structural techniques such as "numbered heads together" help foster both positive interdependence and individual accountability. The conventional individualistic orientation can be very adaptive, but is also…

The structural approach to cooperative learning is based on the creation, analysis, and systematic application of content-free ways to organize classroom interactions. Structures (outlined in a table) have differing uses in the academic, cognitive, and social domains, such as team building, communication building, mastery, and concept development.…

Competition between public and private colleges has existed since the 19th century and was recently heightened by competition in a period of declining enrollments. Several states are working to prevent conflict, build relationships, and foster cooperative action by supporting or creating state associations of all public and private institutions.…

Several approaches to teaching games as part of the physical education curriculum are discussed. Details are provided of a tactical/strategy based approach in which students become familiar with the nature of the game as well as learn specific skills (IAH)