The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

There is a class of largely ignored children for whom the crisis in American education means total noneducation or miseducation. The author examines a limited constitutional right to education which can be invoked to protect these neglected children. (Editor)

Discusses the management of developing and transmitting academic culture through the educational institutions in the United States. (PG)

The study sought to determine if doctoral graduates of North Carolina State University's Department of Adult and Community College Education who perform different professional roles (teaching, research, program development, administration) have different perceptions of the utility of the department's educational objectives. (Author/MS)

Author identified and discussed accountability as performance reporting, as a technical process, as a political process, and as an institutional process. (Editor/RK)

Successful junior collegiate DECA programs require different techniques than those inherent in high school programs because the goals and objectives of the two groups differ. DECA must be utilized to aid the junior college student in fulfilling his occupational goals. Four suggestions in this regard are offered. (AG)

Described is an indirect approach, modeled after successful experiments in industry, which can alert a teacher to the preconceptions about conditions conducive to learning that dominate in a particular class. The theory and its application to a class are discussed. (Author/SC)

Seven value-type catergories which can be used in guiding a programing situation analysis are social-psychological, economic, physiological and health, socio-political, education, environment and natural resources, and ecological relationships. These categories are related to seven basic questions in a matrix model to determine program needs. (MS)

An ideal university and its importance while recognizing the factors unfavorable to its realization are described. (Editor)

The author predicts that the affective movement in education will subside because the proponents of the movement have failed to develop curricula and other materials for potential practitioners outside the movement. (HD)

How can we help each student achieve personal fulfillment as he prepares for life after he leaves school? Career education is one answer. The school for tomorrow will focus on individual needs. The change should begin with the teachers, and distributive education departments could lead the way. (AG)