Response article Nr.1 on a special topic: "The Means-Ends Problem of Education in the Humanities. See AA 502 148 and AA 502 150 for the main article and response article Nr.2, respectively.

This booklet provides an overview of Arizona career education for interested educators and school board members. It is divided into seven sections which cover (1) definition and characteristics of career education, (2) the broad goals for career education with special emphasis on Arizona's goals which are learning to live, learning to learn, and…

This paper discusses an approach to identifying and selecting teacher competencies. This approach includes identifying desired pupil outcomes, deciding the kinds of teachers necessary to ensure this type of outcome, defining what an effective teacher is and does, focusing on competencies that relate to effective teaching and categorizing them.…

In this address, James E. Allen, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Education and U.S. Commissioner of Education, discusses the relationship of education to the problem of ecological destruction. He states that the solutions to the problems of air, water, and soil pollution may be found in redirected education. This "education for survival" can serve to…

All children should be given the opportunity to begin school at the age of four at public expense. Research and experience show that the first four or five years of life are the most active mentally and physically, and children of those ages profit from a wide variety of activities and relationships. A school program adapted to four- and…

In the period between the First and Second World Wars, the American popular desire for peace was reflected in a number of peace education efforts. The peace education views of John Dewey and Nicholas Murray Butler are compared. (MT)

The standard approach to test validity requires a realist or externalist philosophical perspective. An idealist or internalist perspective results in a radically different interpretation of validity. If reality is mind-constructed and truth is agreement, then instruments cannot stand separate from what they purport to measure. (MT)

In July 1984, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board began its "Measurement Focus/Basis of Accounting" project, which addresses measurement issues and revenue and expenditure recognition problems involving governmental funds. This article explains the project's background, alternatives discussed by the board, and tentative…

Traces standards and goals for children's theatre in America, since its founding in 1903. Outlines positive and negative aspects of children's theatre. (PD)

Leo Strauss' views of the function of political philosophy as expressed in his book "Natural Right and History" are discussed. It is the function of political philosophy to distinguish good action from bad and promote the one and avert the other. (RM)

"Leading Coherently" draws insight from 36 exemplary leaders to describe a natural and potent relationship between leadership formation, performance, and sustainability. Through sharing their leadership stories, leaders from across the globe reveal prominent themes about how leaders are formed to the role of influencing others toward the…

Presents the top 15 "ideal" goals and the top 15 "present" goals of community education as identified in a nationwide survey using the Delphi technique. (Author/DN)

The behavioral objectives movement is a theoretical throwback to the defunct school of radical behaviorism and assumes an empty pupil. (Author)