Integration of career planning with Veterans programs at the University of Cincinnati addressed special needs. The project consisted of several components: testing, counseling, exploration, and follow-up. (Author)

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency outlines needed skills and suggests how secondary education can encourage their development. (DS)

Continuous attention must be paid to law as a part of society and to the development of new curriculum materials and instructional practices if law-related education is to avoid becoming only a curiosity of 1970's curriculum history. (MJB)

Since the greatest amount of communication time, both in the classroom and in normal daily life, is spent in listening, an effort must be made to bring listening into parity with other forms of communication. (NQ)

Today in many educational circles there is much talk especially among blacks, of the need for role models and the scarcity of positive constructive examples of those who stand for academic excellence for young people to emulate. (Author/AM)

The aesthetic response is indispensable to all experience, and instruction in the aesthetic response is both possible and necessary. (DD)

The article considers major issues, questions, and problems related to gifted females including underachievement, creative productivity, male dominance in mathematics and science, cultural stereotyping, sex roles and mixed messages, lack of planning, the perfection complex, the impostor syndrome, and counseling. (Author/CB)

Discusses the importance of training for information technology trainers. Describes the team approach used by the Mobay Corporation to overcome the problem of matching trainers' skills to the task of developing training programs. (JOW)

Special education in Malaysia now involves 4,220 handicapped children in four categories: visually handicapped, hearing impaired, mentally retarded, and physically handicapped. Needs such as more special education teachers, early diagnosis, modified curricula, special equipment, and parent counseling are discussed. (Author/DB)

Discusses setting and evaluating objectives for formal patient education programs. (CH)

Surveyed 110 military alcohol and drug abuse counselors and 16 clinical supervisors to compare their views of training needs. Results indicated both groups felt improvement was needed in assessment skills and family issues. Supervisors felt counselors needed improvement in affective qualities, basic helping skills and individual helping skills.…

Changes that could cheaply and easily be made to improve public education are suggested. These include disconnecting all loudspeaker systems in schools, disarming the school (e.g., doing away with security guards), enlisting students in keeping the school clean, saving old schools, and looking on new hardware with a skeptical eye. (RM)

There is a lack of a research substructure and tradition in the universities of Greece. The question of research in universities should be regarded as a national priority. (RM)

The author examines what teaching behavior is appropriate under what circumstances, andragogically based behavior or pedagogically based behavior? To examine this issue, a classification system based on the structure of the knowledge sought is proposed. (CT)

Suggestions are made for introducing opera to children when they are in kindergarten and in the lower elementary grades. Opera is a form of artistic excitement involving many elements especially well-loved by children and natural to them, including music, costumes, acting, dancing, scenery, and imagination. (RM)