Identifies and discusses three current and emerging problems in graduate admissions: lack of understanding by applicants about admissions procedures, lack of information available to applicants about graduate programs, and lack of information about applicants available to those persons making decisions about admissions and appointments. (JMF)

Summarizes and supports the position of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Project Committee, which favors a state-provided educational framework of goals, funding, and monitoring technical assistance, and the establishment by local school districts of their own instructional programs that meet individual needs rather than…

General educational quality can only be improved through the development of effective screening techniques regarding candidates for admission to teacher education institutions. (LH)

Presents an overview of the English educational system as experienced by an American teaching at a two-year technical college in England, focusing on the role of the technical college and its faculty, academic standards, and accountability. (MB)

Accountability expectations of a college president are outlined in this speech. The author, a management consultant, notes that an academic president is responsibile for program planning; standards of academic excellence; utilization of funds, facilities, and human resources; and forms of efficient governance. However, he does not have the…

A brief discussion of standards (course requirements, student responsibility, and teacher's supervisory role) for vocational agriculture supervised experience programs. (JT)

Argues that preferential treatment of women and minorities in the selection of college faculty elevates a form of corruption to standard administrative practice by including people in academic life on the basis of characteristics irrelevant to teaching and research; and previous unjust treatment is inadequate justification for preferential…

This essay argues for the use of examples that set a clear standard for student performance and calibration of local standards to exemplars. Four types of performance criteria are proposed: impact, process, form, and content. Examples of assessment initiatives grounded in models of excellent performance are summarized. (Author/DB)

The "Horowitz" and "Ewing" decisions defined the rights to due process in academic matters on the public postsecondary campus. This study bring the law forward since the 1978 and 1985 Supreme Court decisions by identifying and analyzing 59 cases. (142 footnotes) (MLF)

Proposes a design for a life science curriculum following the National Research Council National Science Education Standards. The overarching theme is that science as inquiry should be recognized as a basic and controlling principle in the ultimate organization and experiences in students' science education. Six-week units include Matter, Energy,…

Describes a university outreach program that aims to enable teachers and students to learn the content and process of modern scientific inquiry by engaging in research and communicating their findings to others. (DDR)

Suggests that the "Standards for the English Language Arts" (copublished by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association) makes good sense about literature and almost none at all about literacy. Argues that for 99% of the school population, the de-emphasis of the "Standards" on formal written communication…

Describes the construct problem within achievement testing, asserting that current research in the cognitive sciences, measurement, and technology make this an opportune time to move forward in assessing critical aspects of learning. Designing new kinds of situations for capturing the complexity of learning requires breaking out of the current…

Illustrates how educational reforms subordinate teachers and reduce their opportunities for professionalism, interviewing beginning and experienced female elementary school teachers. Results address the social construction of the teacher (curricular standards and pedagogy); evidence of resistance; and teacher complicity and constraint. Suggests…

Describes the essential link among content standards, curriculum, instruction, professional development, and assessment in elementary physical education, discussing the National Association for Sport and Physical Education standards for physical education and emphasizing the importance of assessment in monitoring student progress, improving…