This document discusses the issues and regulations that affect schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the release of personal information on their employees. It is not intended to provide legal guidelines, but rather to introduce the key concepts involved in protecting and managing information in staff records. By understanding…

Educational standards and accountability are at the center of an ongoing national debate on school reform that began almost 20 years ago. This debate has raised fundamental questions about school effectiveness and the strategies educators should use to boost student learning. This book provides a closer look at these questions and seeks to answer…

This article examines how participants in an interview use different linguistic and social resources in order to construct multiple, complex self-representations. It discusses interviews from a critical discourse perspective. In particular, it suggests that interviews are sites of struggle where individuals strive to construct representations of…

Examined the impact of disclosure flexibility in simulated counseling contexts involving 50 counselors in training. Results indicated that more flexible disclosures produced more effective counselor responses but differences were attenuated over the course of training. (Author/JAC)

The Freedom of Information Act and related decisions protect some but not all materials generated by scientists receiving federal grants. Interests affected by disclosure and nondisclosure are analyzed and solutions are suggested. (Available from: Box 7, Columbia University School of Law, 435 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027, $6.00.) (MSE)

Describes the legal responsibilities of schools and colleges in the disclosure of student records, information, and evaluations, with particular reference to the impact of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Provides some guidelines to follow when maintaining or disclosing information concerning students. (PGD)

Discusses professional disclosure as a method for protecting consumers of counseling services and for enhancing the image of the profession. Describes components of the professional disclosure statement, poses a set of questions to facilitate the writing of the philosophy part of the statement, and presents three examples. (Author)

Findings indicated that physically attractive couples were more likely to show public intimacy. Younger couples displayed more intimacy than older couples. Couples who were similar in age interacted more than couples who differed in age. Husband-wife attractiveness did not significantly influence intimacy. (Author/BEF)

Results indicate that maladjusted adolescent males lack significant relationships with a father figure. This extends to males in general. They disclose less about school-related topics and more about peer relationships than do adjusted male adolescents. (Author/BEF)

Confidentiality is important to the group process. Groups whose leaders did not make an initial statement about confidentiality had the highest percent of members believing they could talk about the group and were actually talking to others outside the group meeting. Concludes with suggestions for enhancing confidentiality. (Author)

Examines the relationship of perceived homophily to level of uncertainty, feeling good, and safety, as well as the relationship of level of uncertainty, feeling good, and safety to self-disclosure. Indicates that feeling good is the single best predictor of self-disclosive communication. (JMF)

The intention of S.1090 is to improve the existing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but in its current form, it is technologically out of date, will burden the administrative process, and will delay disclosure. Examines general considerations for amendments, technology and information law, and technological and administrative problems with the…

Neither the typical academic nor the average journalist understands well what the other does. There has been a major shift in the way the American press treats education, and education leaders and scholars must learn to deal with the media differently. This requires openness, responsiveness, and competence in the college public affairs office.…

Twice interviewed 13 psychotherapy clients about their experiences with helpful instances of therapist self-disclosure. Results indicate that helpful therapist self-disclosures resulted in positive consequences that included insights or a new perspective from which to make changes, an improved or more equalized therapeutic relationship,…

This editorial comments on a study (EC 614 974) concerning interviews with children suspected to be victims of sexual abuse which eliminated interviewer bias and possible leading questioning. It supports further research into the effectiveness of "blind interviews" but also urges major changes in arrangements for obtaining children's evidence on…