Discusses recent changes in English teacher education and points out that many English education students need help in increasing their verbal abilities. Recommends that language courses be developed for all education students and that they be offered in addition to courses in English pedagogy and the development of children's language. (GT)

Works of art do not disclose themselves spontaneously; they can only be apprehended through specially cultivated modes of perception. Aesthetic training requires more than the mechanized forms of study which high schools emphasize. Students must also be encouraged to engage their responsive energies and be open to the unknown. (Author/SJL)

Data indicate that existing levels of specialized gerontological education are low, but that practitioners are supportive of further training and increased professionalism. Practitioners are receptive to efforts to increase gerontological knowledge and professionalism. However, the question of desirability of increased professionalism is raised.…

Outlines reasons for having programs for the gifted. Describes the gifted instructional program at the author's high school. (JT)

Reviews the objectives and accomplishments of a Polish educator, Janusz Korczak, who was director of two orphanages in Warsaw from 1911-1942. Information is presented on Korczak's humanistic values, educational objectives, insistence that the individuality of children be recognized, and selfless devotion to the children in his orphanages.…

Suggests a unitary approach to multicultural education rather than the approach which promotes relativism of knowledge, understanding, and values. The unitary approach does not entail indifference to, or belittling of, cultural diversity but rather strives for educational justice for all students. (Author/KC)

Concentrates on the crisis of educational institutions, particularly at the university level. Information is presented on the professionalization of teaching, social change, increasing existence of nonuniversity research institutions, political activism, and prognosis for a renaissance of the universities. (Author/DB)

Discusses three major pieces of legislation which give impetus to the effort to expand vocational services for the handicapped: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the Vocational Education Act Amendment of 1976, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (KC)

Examines the absence of materials focusing on the pragmatic aspects of business, a comprehensive business education model, and specific examples of injecting realism into the classroom. Advocates combining elementary economics with basic business principles to effectively bridge the business knowledge gap. (JOW)

Reviews existing research on the appropriate specification and estimation of models of cognitive achievement, offers an original two-equation model of cognitive achievement for individual students, and explores the relationship between instructional quality, teacher's salaries, and academic achievement. (Author/DB)

The most debilitating factor that minority researchers must overcome in order to become active participants in the educational research community is the negative attitude of White researchers toward their minority colleagues. (Author/GC)

Outlined is how the latest national curriculum project in science is tackling the lack of effective policies at school, local authority and national levels, and a lack of carefully conceived pupil material which is appropriately challenging both to the child and non-specialist primary or middle school teacher. (Author/KC)

Central issues of the International Labour Organisation meeting were financing workers' education in Africa, identification and development of special training programs, and the role of trade unions in labor education. (SK)

Offers a thoughtful analysis of how "ageism," or prejudice against the elderly, came about, and calls for educators to help their students become sensitive to the problems and potentials of the elderly. Discusses ten myths about the elderly and then presents the facts. (FL)

Foreign language study has a humanistic value that should not be ignored. Foreign language study is as essential to a liberal arts education as is the study of mathematics to an education in technological and scientific fields. (HOD)