Article focused on the conglomeration of options out of which many students never emerge and concentrated on the decisions that students must make in order to become educated. (Editor/RK)

Authors discuss issues early childhood teachers must deal with in planning year-long programs. (Editor/MB)

The techniques used by Manhasset High School for student involvement in health education is a call to directly involve your students regardless of the location of your school. If students feel they are making contributions to their own education they are more apt to be interested in themselves, their communities and the world. (Author)

Four administrators, representing three institutions, report on the growth and development of communication departments on their campuses. (PD)

The development of a conceptual framework and the establishment of programing options in continuing education in nursing will provide direction in program development, implementation, and evaluation. The framework and resultant options will also assist faculty, learners, and the community in understanding the basis of the continuing education…

This study focused on the development and demonstration of a model for establishing curriculum development priorities for trade and industrial education programs which discriminates effectively, is reasonably uncomplicated, and is inexpensive to administer. (CT)

Survey results have demonstrated a need for the integration of economics education in the total public school curriculum. (CJ)

A merger of school and community programs provides a more comprehensive and realistic approach to health education. (LH)

Successful implementation of new programs requires planning, an appropriate strategy, and staff development. (Author)

The central conclusion of the study is that, in developing a competency-based graduate level program for preparing vocational education curriculists, priority should be given specifically to those roles, responsibilities, and competencies identified as most important by the groups surveyed. (Author/BP)

Presents a strategic consultancy model for establishing a business communication center. Discusses its application in two stages at the University of South Carolina in proposing and establishing such a center. Discusses identifying principles; identifying stakeholders; defining goals; analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats;…

Describes the structure and major accomplishments of the Language Mission Project, a cooperative initiative of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the National Foreign Language Center at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland) to help 14 selected colleges and universities rethink and develop their foreign language programs.…

Virtual Schooling (VS) for K-12 school students using distance technologies has increased rapidly in the 21st century with the growth of online learning and virtual schools in more than 44 states in the USA and as e-learning in over 20 clusters of rural schools in New Zealand. Although VS requires a special set of teaching methods, teacher…

The E-Language Learning (ELL) project is an ongoing collaborative effort between the US Department of Education and the Chinese (PRC) Ministry of Education. Its purpose is to develop a free, online language-learning opportunity for students in the two countries. Developers in the US are now in the process of creating a program to teach English to…