This document consists of the four 1999 issues of the "Journal of Educational Relations," published quarterly to promote student achievement through positive school-home- community relationships. The articles in the first issue include: "The 10 Major Educational Events of the 20th Century in the United States" (Ben Brodinsky)…

This booklet offers techniques and insights to assist the lobbying efforts of Minnesota advocates of individuals with disabilities. It begins by explaining lobbying and the legislative process. Suggestions for effective meetings with legislators are provided, along with ways to get an author for proposed legislation. The following sections discuss…

The author recounts major events in the emergence of secondary school counseling as a profession in the United States. She then briefly describes present trends (group counseling, career education, and use of automated equipment) and current debates (over counselor role and label, counselor-student ratio, etc.) Issues of future concern to the…

Considered the areas of cooperation between the principal and the assistant principal necessary for effective school administration. (RK)

Report prepared for the members of the Modern Language Association's Foreign Language Program Steering Committee, March 1973. (RL)

Describes how trouble erupted in a Polk County, Florida, new junior high school that was designed according to the open school, individualized instruction concept. Provides a 7-point recommendation for other administrators planning innovative schools, which guidelines could aid in avoiding potential trouble. (JF)

Community participation has many faces, but is moving increasingly away from a group notion toward the individual participant, that is, each and every parent and student as educational consumer. (Author)

At a meeting of the National Committee for Community and School Relations, plans are made to get the word to those who should know. (Editor)

Higher education must be more truthful in its own evaluation of its current weaknesses" in order to portray itself effectively to its many constituencies, author stated at the 26th National Conference on Higher Education in Chicago, March 14-17, 1971. (Editor)

Diagnosing an institution's areas of weakness - and prescribing reforms - are the first steps to the recovery of higher education. (Editor)

Two potentially successful forms of search and selection are distinguished: one using separate committees for search and screening and for selection, and one using a single committee combining membership from the board, faculty, administrators, students, and alumni. Five caveats are offered regardless of committee approach. (MSE)

It is important that nurses, particularly those who consider themselves community health nursing specialists, assign a high priority to participation in the formation of health policy and broader public policy. To put subsequent remarks about policy into perspective, it is useful to consider the case for seeing community health nursing as…