Today, many women are ignoring traditional gender-role stereotypes in achieving their life goals. (Editor)

Responding to J. Lerner's article on differences between the fields of reading and learning disabilities (EC 081 334) the author suggests that Lerner fails to distinguish between corrective reading and remedial reading, misunderstands learning disabilities as including only learning problems with neurological bases, and misconstrues task analysis…

The article reviews federal legislation concerning the vocational education and employment of handicapped individuals. (PHR)

Reviews and compares three types of microfilm--silver halide, diazo, and vesicular. Storage and handing requirements for permanent collections are discussed, and some suggestions are offered to solve problems caused by the proliferation of nonsilver films in libraries. (MBR)

Critically reviewing the conclusions of Mossie J. Richmond, Jr. in "Effects of Extended School Year" (Education, 97, 392-8), this article asserts that Richmond's methodology was unsuitable for year-round school cost analysis and that year-round schedules do, in fact, save money. (JC)

Defends and clarifies his redefinition of argument from the perspective of constructivism, particularly the implications that arguments may be wholly or partially nonverbal. (JMF)

The article explains diabetes mellitus, giving a brief history of the disease, its description, complications, and treatment. (PHR)

Analyzes the structure of French distributive complements, including the formal and semantic similarities and differences among them. (AM)

An historical discussion of three types of film--teaching, information, and entertainment--is presented. The numbers of films in each category, especially the last, which includes the animated, unnarrated, iconographic, underground, and avant-garde, has grown substantially. Libraries have quickly accepted all except the revolutionary philosophies…

Library film services for the hearing-impaired are discussed. Captioned and nonverbal films are defined, and a discussion of changing attitudes that resulted in integrated showing of these films is presented. Pointers on how to integrate, and sources of information on films for the hearing-impaired are also included. (MBR)

A broad definition of numeracy is suggested that involves the use of mathematical knowledge. (MP)

Social scientists need to become more concerned with the study of dangerous behaviors and practices in our society, especially in light of the disproportionate injury and harm suffered by socially disadvantaged groups. (Author)

The ability to raise effective questions for problem-solving learning requires considerable skill and much preparation and practice. This research provides a brief examination of three problem-solving models for both elementary and secondary-level classrooms and emphasizes the development of an appropriate teacher question repertory for each phase…

Responsibility Education is a concept designed to restructure and redefine schooling and education to emphasize those attitudes, dispositions, and habits that lead to the development of a sense of responsibility within each individual and the knowledge, skills, judgments, standards and commitments needed by an individual to act responsibly.…

Some of the tactics elderly people use to sustain an honorable self-image, some ways in which society deprives aging people of dignity, and some suggestions for augmenting the dignity accorded old people in American society are discussed here. (Author)