This document provides students, parents, educators, administrators, policy makers, and the public with a set of common guidelines for environmental education. These voluntary guidelines are intended to aid state and local efforts to provide quality environmental education. The guidelines suggest expectations for learner performance and…

Institutions of higher learning, on the whole, have failed to draw upon the full potential of the accrediting process as an instrument for internal planning and development. (Editor)

A survey to determine what admission procedures were being used in counselor education programs across the country revealed that a wide variety of procedures were being used to select students for master's degree and doctoral degree programs in counselor education. The criteria most commonly mentioned for selecting students were scholastic…

Accrediting agencies are caught between the problem of increased government control of practices on the one hand, and the risk of being charged with social irresponsibility on the other. (HS)

The first of a two-part series based on a study of news-editorial sequences throughout the country. (RB)

A rash of doctoritis" has spread through the academic world as the status symbol of a doctoral degree is earned one way or another. (IR)

The relationship between the citation rates and perceived quality of education journals was examined and the results showed a weaker relationship than reported in studies of other disciplines. Implications for subsequent research on the complex process of knowledge diffusion and utilization are discussed. (Author/MLW)

A form of indexation is proposed, in order to restore informational content to student grades. Each student's transcript would include the grade received and the average grade assigned by that instructor for that course. (PN)

A critique is given on Alan Tom's article, "An Alternative Set of NCATE Standards." This critique discusses implications of and possible reactions to Tom's article. (CJ)

Questions the validity of the concept of standards and suggests that many sections of opinion within the teaching profession need to be given an evaluation of curriculum content by those who have passed through the system. (Author/RK)

Argues that the standards by which literacy is judged have gone up, which produces the impression that schools are doing worse than they have in the past when in fact they are doing well. Examines a cross section of studies and data. (TB)

Examines how to reconcile constructivist pedagogy that emphasizes free student inquiry and self-correction with the demand that students learn content and inquiry methods required in the discipline-based educational standards, tracing this dilemma to an ambivalent regard for professional knowledge related to the pragmatist epistemology and…

Describes how the whole-school approach to educational restructuring can achieve quality inclusive education that meets the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Includes list of characteristics of inclusive schools. (PKP)