Discusses different emphases placed by institutions of higher education on a range of admissions criteria including academic performance, evidence of graduation, letters of recommendation, personal essays, and interviews. Concludes that standardized tests are not the pervasive barrier to higher education in the United States that many test critics…

Criticisms commonly lodged against apprenticeships and vocational education are examined. Vocational education professionals and apprenticeship officials should cooperate in operating training programs. (CJ)

Discusses nonacademic variables that must be considered in attempts to upgrade educational opportunities for youthful offenders. Describes the preventive, rehabilitative, and integrative roles that schools play in this enterprise. (Author/GC)

Project ALMA is an educational program which instills leadership qualities in migrant and seasonal farmworker students who have traditionally been the absent minority in education. Migrant students are given the opportunity to adjust to the "college experiences" through the many academic services offered by the program--counseling,…

Describes training opportunities currently available including content of the training, fees, length of sessions and schedules, support equipment needed, provision of online time, and names of contact persons. (CWM)

The responsibility of the English instructor in a two-year college is to offer quality language instruction that is responsive to the needs of all persons in the community. (HOD)

Ten teachers comment on the Ann Arbor (Michigan) court case concerning language bias in the schools. (RL)

Reviews demographic trends within the United States since 1950, with emphasis on dimensions of change that have only recently become clear. Addresses the issues of employment and industrial sector growth and assesses the strength of amenity-based migration. (Author/DB)

Briefly summarizes the historical development of regional speech communication associations and their influence on the teaching of speech communication in elementary and secondary schools. Highlights opportunities for further advancement of the field. (JMF)

Describes the structure and operations of the graduate student research training teams at Michigan State University. Considers advantages of this approach, including the opportunity to pursue programmatic research and the continuity provided by having first-, second-, and third-year students on a team. Discusses limitations of the concept. (JMF)

Earthwatch, a nonprofit clearinghouse that places interested amateurs on scientific expeditions, has sent over 3,000 people to work with 350 scholars. This article describes experiences of a young woman doing archaeological fieldwork at a 300-year-old California mission. (DS)

Reviews the various emerging roles that senior citizens can play in the educational field. (AM)

An early visitor to reunified Viet Nam offers his impressions of education in that country. (IRT)

The terms, workers' education, labor education, and labor studies, reflect historical periods differing in curriculum content, student body, and basic objectives. (MV)

There can be a conflict between freedom of choice for parents and freedom of choice for children in that parents sometimes choose a school that will reinforce their own influence and help to bring up their children in a predetermined mould with the same ideological beliefs and personal values as themselves. (Author/IRT)