Suggests that individual students' learning styles should determine counseling techniques and strategies used and recommends use of the Learning Style Inventory for this purpose. Tables present learning style compatibility with selected counseling objectives, interventions, and programmed materials related to learning styles. (WD)

The well-informed principal should understand the parameters involved in developing and maintaining an effective school guidance program. Principals must learn about information sources, professional counseling organizations, and effective program characteristics; keep current on legislation, litigation, and regulation developments; work…

Describes a procedure for analyzing personnel salary and management costs of a self-directed career decision-making program using actual client data. These data are then compared to hypothetical data for a comparable individual career- counseling program. Discusses policy and management issues related to self-directed and individual…

Reacts to Robert Reardon's article (this issue) on the cost analysis of a self-directed career decision-making program. Asserts that comparing career advising with individual career counseling is making an unnecessary distinction between two services that are complementary approaches, and states that if the costs are nearly the same, individual…

Distance learners need practical, emotional, and academic support. The Learning Support Needs Questionnaire is constructed on the following assumptions: (1) it must relate to students' life history; (2) it must help develop critical self-analysis; (3) it should co-opt students into participating; (4) it should facilitate development of an action…

Guidance counselors help students acquire academic, social, and life skills as well as career skills. A comprehensive guidance program such as Utah's takes a lifelong view of career preparation. (SK)

Throckmorton P. Wallow's guidance was, and still is, crucial to the success of presidents at so many of the very worst colleges. Now Thomas Reeves "discovers" the handbook, in which Wallow laid out his comprehensive strategy for instilling inferiority in faculty, reducing their drive for distinction, and keeping them at bay; for insuring straight…

The school visit is an effective tool for stimulating the continued professional growth of middle level educators. In the past, however, a major problem with school visits was that they were conducted with positive expectations, but very little preplanning activities, little or no on-site structure, little or no debriefing for either the visiting…

This article presents major alterations afoot for Leaders Council. The Education Leaders Council (ELC), which has been grappling with financial and leadership problems for months, is merging with another Washington-based nonprofit organization. The new organization, which will likely keep the ELC name, now will manage the Following the Leaders…

The "Mathematical Lens" feature of "Mathematics Teacher," uses photographs as a springboard for mathematical inquiry. The goal of this feature is to encourage readers to see patterns and relationships that they can think about and extend in a mathematically playful way. In this edition of "Mathematical Lens," students analyze the shapes in an iron…

The complexities of present-day living have created a need for the expansion of the offerings of the school to better prepare the students to cope with their problems. The school activities inaugurated to help the students solve their problems and become happier and better adjusted were called guidance. It has been felt that these guidance…

A peer review process is used by the U.S. Department of Education to determine whether states are meeting requirements for funds that they receive. Starting in 2004, a peer review process was initiated on states' standards and assessments. Several of the criteria attend to accommodations and their effects. This report summarizes the key…

Patterns of classes, grades, and test scores were studied in 3 successive graduating classes of a mid-western suburban high school. Descriptive statistics indicate that the prestigious college group had the highest mean scores on 23 variables. Descriptive discriminant analysis revealed the most influential variables were cumulative grade point…

Many educators consider the final year of high school to be a "vast wasteland," an epidemic of disengagement. Although high schools across the country have struggled with senioritis, responses to the problem have largely fallen into vertical acceleration, in which schools typically offer an array of AP courses or dual enrollment…

This article talks about Mission High School located in San Francisco, where majority of its students come from two of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. The entrance of the historic Mission High School is reminiscent of the grand entryways in elite colleges and universities. The irony of Mission's architecturally pleasing edifice is that for…