Survey responses of 91 general education and 155 occupational faculty and 107 administrators in technical colleges indicated agreement that communication and critical thinking are most important learner outcomes and uncertainty about the meaning of academic-vocational integration. Administrators rated benefits of integration higher than the…

Britain's General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs) appear to perpetuate a three-track system: academic credentials for the elite, work-related National Vocational Qualifications, and GNVQs as a new class of qualifications. Despite claims of parity, GNVQs could merely equip students with minimal skills. If they can gain parity, their…

This study examined gender differences in attitudes toward academic subjects in 2,089 gifted students in grades 3 through 6. Observed gender differences were consistent with those found in research with older students. Grade level differences suggest that attitudes toward several academic areas become more negative with age. Attitudes were not…

Discusses the synergies and possible contradictions between general education and mass higher education. Explores whether they are complementary ideas because mass higher education must inevitably be general, or opposed ideas because general education espouses generic, holistic approaches to learning while mass education endorses eclectic, even…

Asserting that liberal education is at risk in Canadian universities, attempts to explain why such policy shifts are occurring; points to the continuing cultural, social, and intellectual value of liberal education; and, drawing from recent census data, demonstrates that liberal education produces generally positive economic benefits to the…

University education was originally intended for an elite group; the campus environment and teacher-student relationships were as important as study. Now access has widened and fewer students live on campus. Failure to distinguish between various forms of higher education (e.g., vocational qualifications) is harmful to the status of the college…

Career and technical education has always been able to change with the times. New technologies and new educational challenges have made such change necessary. Sometimes a school must reinvent itself and undergo a rebirth as part of that adaptation. That is what has happened at the former St. Louis Career Academy. In the 2004-05 school year, the…

This essay questions the commonly held assumption that schools today are worse academically than they were in the past. It argues that schools have seldom been chiefly interested in intellectual inquiry. Nor have they ever been committed to providing a quality intellectual education to all students. We argue that if history has anything to tell us…

It is the position of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the College and University Physical Education Council (CUPEC) that all colleges and universities uphold a physical activity instructional program for students as a strong and integral part of the academic curriculum. Bombarded by popular culture, newfound…

This article employs the concept of community to interpret teacher professional learning in the context of the school science department. Using the transcripts of staff meetings, lesson observations and the conversations of school administrators, the departmental community is examined in terms of three metaphors: subject, relationships and…

This paper is designed to help educators to incorporate the competencies developed by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) into their curricula. (SCANS is a commission composed of representatives of education, business, labor, and state government established in 1990 to define a common core of skills that constitute job…

This document describes a collaborative program between the English and Business Departments at New Britain High School (Connecticut) designed to respond to the rapid growth of the technological aspects of communication. Three student texts, six videos, two periodicals, and two resource text materials, computer hardware and software used, and a…

Mrs. Barbara A. Sizemore, superintendent of the Washington D. C. school system, spoke at the New Orleans American Vocational Association (AVA) Convention. She expressed viewpoints on necessary student skills, occupational training, teaching methods, vocational/academic debate, and competency-based education. (EA)

This booklet describes the New Jersey Provisional Teacher Program that enables local school districts to employ college graduates who did not study education courses in college. In order to qualify, a candidate must possess a degree in the subject he/she will teach and must pass a state certification test of subject knowledge. Further, the…

Assignment of teachers to teach subjects for which they have not had academic preparation is a topic of considerable concern presently. This paper: (1) reviews present Colorado provisions regarding teacher subject eligibility and assignment; (2) reports available data as to the extent of teaching without academic preparation; (3) identifies…