This article offers a comprehensive literature review of Developmental Assets[TM], defined as the positive building blocks that all children and adolescents need to succeed. The article examines the usefulness of the Developmental Assets for a comprehensive, developmental, and strengths-based school counseling program. A crosswalk comparing the…

Presents a model of comprehensive guidance and counseling integrated within a business context. Concludes that using program evaluation to position counseling as a business with effective service products may enhance the long-term viability of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs. (Contains 48 references.) (GCP)

School psychologists are in a key position to participate in comprehensive health care of children and adolescents. Presents a model for school psychology in which practitioners assume an active role in addressing the health and mental health needs of children and adolescents. The model is rooted in developmental- ecological theory and action…

Presents a response to "School Psychologists as Health-Care Providers in the 21st Century: Conceptual Framework, Professional Identity, and Professional Practice" (this issue). The author supports the call for school psychologists to assume leadership in facilitating the necessary coordination across systems for such a role change to…

Early in the 20th century, vocational education was a concern of educators in the United States as schools struggled to meet labor force needs during the shift from an agrarian to an industrial economic base. A 1914 Congress-authorized commission studied whether federal aid to vocational education was warranted. Charles Prosser, a student of…

A conceptual framework is constructed to integrate teacher actions, teacher knowledge, and state of the art assessment methodologies. Section 1 discusses teaching in terms of tasks, and Section 2 considers the knowledge base teachers draw on in order to accomplish those tasks. Section 3 illustrates the relationship between teacher actions and…