The purposes of this article are to give a brief summary of the present scope of career education, its role in the curriculum, and to raise several crucial issues. (Author)

Describes a comprehensive program of school-community communications in a New York State school district leading to community understanding and support for its educational programs. (AN)

Argues that it is important for educators to include physicians in the development of educational plans for exceptional children. (FL)

The authors examine national trends, 1975-1978, in state certification requirements and teacher preparation programs which recognize middle school teaching as a specialty. They list states which issue middle school certificates and note the percentage growth at universities of middle school teacher education program offerings. (SJL)

Examining the power relationship between teachers and change agents in the case of a centrally developed and advocated innovation. The author concludes that teachers have the greater power to control or prevent school change by refusing to implement the innovation. (Author/SJL)

Minimum competency testing seems here to stay. The challenge to teachers is to promote public realization that test performance cannot completely measure complex skills; that mandated basic skills instruction may be an oversimplification of the teaching/learning process; and that definitions of minimum competence constantly change. (SJL)

Reports the results of a 1979 Educational Testing Service (ETS) Study, "The Effects of Special Preparation on S.A.T. Verbal Scores," and considers its implications for educational planning, management by objectives, and instructional methods to improve verbal ability. (SJL)

Within the next decade it will be the rare school system which does not provide flexible graduation programs for all students. Describes initial attempts to develop early graduation and current research on opinions about its effectiveness as well as school policy on its practice. (Author/RK)

Provides some suggestions for implementing the metric system including the need to establish a learning motivation for metrication within students. (RK)

Proposes that there are four middle school concepts that hold promise for being effective in high schools: advisor-advisee programs, exploratory programs, interdisciplinary teams, and efforts to promote a positive school climate. Lists, for each concept, implementation tasks, the characteristics of effective high school efforts, and recommended…

Describes an administrator training program in the Jefferson School District in Daly City, California, which selects interns from in-district staff, pairing them with an administrator-mentor for individualized, practical training, thus providing the district with a pool of trained administrators from which it can draw. (SR)

Describes the federal government's role in secondary education during the Reagan administration, noting that reduced federal spending necessitates linking federal initiatives with state and local programs. Suggests that the Bush administration provide federal leadership in educational reform, focusing on dropout-rate reduction, with special…

Presents questions that should be asked of any school program using teacher observation and that should serve as standards to measure the realization of teacher autonomy in the professional growth process. Suggests that a school's supervisory program should combine administrative-, peer-, and self-direction. (MS)

Describes Project SPARC (Science Projects across the Regents Curriculum), a two-week summer workshop for middle and high school science teachers, who studied the ecology of wetlands with a biologist and participated in writing and reading activities with a language arts specialist. (SR)

Eight years ago, a new senior interdisciplinary science course called "Oceans: Past and Present" for the McCallie School in Tennessee was designed. The idea stemmed from the combination of a physics teacher's desire for a course based on a summer program at sea and a writing center director/teacher's longing for the ocean from the…