A review of the nation's recent past and a call for emphasis on leadership and purpose in schools. (Author/MLF)

To use the words "multicultural education" is to diminish and make narrow an important educational concept. Education in a pluralistic society is necessarily multicultural. (JD)

The problems facing schools of education in training teachers for mainstreaming are discussed, and the role and objectives of Deans' Grants are outlined. (JD)

Professional educators as goal formulators are presented as the responsible agents of accountability. Norm- and criterion-referenced testing are compared and suggestions for accountability and goal development are given. (RAO)

Functional relationships among domains of learning and a process of diagramming relationships between instructionally significant behaviors are discussed. (RAO)

Evaluation of curricular content with behavioral objectives is suggested as a means of making physical education programs accountable. (GW)

Listed are the objectives needed to be achieved by specific learning disability interns in order to be ready to assume a teaching position in the field of specific learning disabilities. (JYC)

The attitudes of artists and their place among the humanities and sciences as well as the general aspect of the arts in education were evaluated. (Author/RK)

Considers the paradoxical relationship between two pervasive educational goals--quality and equality. Sees this paradox embedded in John Stuart Mill's writings on education, which attempted to reconcile the utilitarian pleasure principle (which emphasizes quantitative measures), with a traditional differentiation among levels and kinds of desires…

The author critiques parts of the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. He argues that the goals of national supremacy and individual gain ignore the role school could play in altering significant objective conditions of society and the ideology which justified those conditions. (MT)

Assuming that basic convictions of teachers with respect to the purposes and processes of education are related to teaching behavior, then ways of improving effectiveness may vary according to belief orientations. Four scales useful in belief typing are presented as being of potential value in research. (MT)

Refutes claims that "our society and its education institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them." Calls for a united effort to translate for the public the needs and accomplishments of education. (DMM)

This article describes four possible conceptions of education, each with its own standards of excellence. These conceptions are called the technical, the rational, the personal, and the social. The authors argue for adoption of the social responsibility conception of educational excellence as a national goal. (MT)

Well-known peoples' views concerning the intrinsic value of music and the importance of music education are presented. The statements represent a few entries from the Music Educators National Conference's new publication "Testimony to Music." (RM)

The mirror drawing apparatus (MDA) is a valuable experiential learning tool with specific applications in general psychology, educational psychology, and recruiting. Specific applications are described. (Author/RM)