Identifies and discusses three goals of career education for young children in Australia: learning how to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living. (CM)

Presents teaching strategies for introducing high school students to contract law. Offers as a case study a contract agreement between pro football players and team owners. Stresses basic elements of contracts (offer, acceptance, consideration, and understanding the bargaining process). Journal available from the American Bar Association, 1155…

Presents reasons for setting program goals and criteria for an acceptable goal statement, which are illustrated by examples of surveying law and career concepts courses. Discusses sources of goal information and potential problems in the goal setting process. (MB)

Using North Dakota as an example, this article focuses upon the misuse of statistical information by those who for political reasons wish to distort data and maintains, that educators are best equipped to handle educational data. (JC)

Presents the text of the Higher Education Framework Law passed in West Germany in 1976 to provide a check on diverging developments in higher education. An introduction by Helmut Rohde, Federal Minister for Education and Science, is included. (Author/DB)

NASSP's "This We Believe: Secondary Schools in a Changing Society" is acclaimed by many as one of the most perceptive studies ever published on secondary education. Because of its popularity the editors of the "Bulletin" present an outline of the study's central themes. (Editor/RK)

Outlines the values and merits of interdisciplinary instruction. (Author/RK)

What to consider before making selections. (LS)

Discusses a study in which engineering students ranked the value of behavioral objectives for their course differently than the instructor for the first unit of instruction; for the following unit, there was no significant difference between the students' and instructor's rankings. (MLH)

Author states that: "Teachers need to be freed from any compulsion to make distribution charts and comparative judgments of pupil learning for grading purposes." Proficiency of a student in a given task or subject area should be measured without relation to success or failure of other students in the group. (Auth/RW)

Discusses the importance of humane education (i.e., the teaching of the principles of justice, goodwill, and respect for all living creatures) and offers suggestions for integrating humane education in the elementary school curriculum. (JG)

Curriculum development is a moral enterprise because it is concerned not so much with what is as with what ought to be. (Author)

A leader in education enumerates today's challenges for industrial arts educators and suggests some responses that the profession can make. (Editor/TA)