Curricular plans for deaf students include the study of English but not of American Sign Language (ASL). This omission suggests a lack of recognition of ASL as a language and as the communication system of deaf people. Every program for the deaf students should include ASL in its requirements. (Author/CL)

Examines the teaching of poetry in Australian schools as it has been attempted in the past few decades and questions whether poetry teaching can be more successful even with the new understandings of language development and literary response. (HOD)

In contrast to the Orwellian world of three autonomous super-states, global interdependence, not autonomy, characterizes the world today. The goals of education in our global age must be to provide young people skills to analyze, evaluate, know, and participate in the world around them. (RM)

The American Statistical Association's recommendations for statistical instruction in legal education are summarized, including notes on the need for such education, existing programs for law students and practicing attorneys, emphasis on comprehension rather than production of statistical analysis, and statistics training program content. (MSE)

In order to compare and contrast the situations in which one ought to purchase materials and when one ought to produce materials in the environment of the single school, the basis of curriculum and instruction were examined. (Author/RK)

An outline of training requirements for the following members of rural workers' organizations is presented: ordinary member, voluntary branch and regional officers, voluntary national officer, full-time regional field official, full-time national official, officials with experience in the organization, and officials appointed for their…

Highlights from discussions concerning need for a position paper on day care that would describe the state of the art and directions in the field. Important theme: seeing day care within the broader context of services children need, and the necessity to involve different levels of education in joint planning.

Nursing informatics is a specialty whose activities center around information management and processing for the nursing profession. The Division of Nursing of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP) recognized a need to identify initiatives that would more…

This book is based mainly on the work of the 46th session of the International Conference on Education (ICE), organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations' International Bureau of Education (IBE) held in Geneva, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2001. The ICE is the only regularly occurring event during which…

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…

Public interest in the field of the retarded child has grown rapidly. One of the more striking aspects of this movement has been the development of interest in the training and education of the severely retarded group of children. This annotated bibliography of more than 300 titles is itself evidence of the pace at which this area has expanded.…

The increasing worldwide use of the metric system is leading the United States into abandoning the English system of measurement and undertaking the monumental task of converting to the metric system. Great Britain offers valuable training experience to the United States with their seven year lead into metrication. (DS)

To achieve open education for adults, demands for accessibility, flexibility, relevance, accountability, productivity, and measurable outcomes must be heeded. The impetus for planning and coordination between institutions should come from continuing education. Goals to be achieved are: definition of purpose, funding policy, articulation, and…

The article discusses the great need for consumer education courses in schools on an interdisciplinary basis K-12. (RM)