Examines how postdoctoral productivity of students in science fields is influenced by academic sponsors, calibre of the Ph.D department, and the scientists' own productivity. Data are examined for chemistry doctoral scholars over their first postdoctoral decade. (DB)

Relates the advance and development of political science in Yugoslavia to the process of democratization and self-management. Maintains that political science in socialist societies should continue to be critical but should also apply principles of Marxist analysis to social phenomena. (DB)

Suggests that university students will be better able to evaluate urban planning as a potential career if they participate in an internship program which stresses contact between students and planners. (Author/DB)

Suggests how social studies teachers in Texas can fulfill the spirit and the letter of two mandates regarding economic education. Presents information on the relationship which should exist between the two laws, concepts which should be included in a study of free enterprise, and problems encountered by teachers as they strive to satisfy the…

Describes and evaluates the economic education component which the Houston Independent School District, Houston, Texas developed in response to the Texas state mandate that economic concepts be incorporated into the existing social studies curriculum. Information is presented on rationale, need, justification, organization, and major concepts.…

Recommends how social studies teachers can combine information and concepts from economics and history to help students understand historical events. The basis of the approach is to review and utilize source materials normally used to enrich current texts. (Author/DB)

Presents a brief overview of educational practice, priorities, problems, and objectives in China from 1949-1976. Major periods are identified as statism and the schools (1953-55), internal criticism and response (1955-57), the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), readjustment and compromise (1961-66), the cultural revolution (1966), and post-Mao Tse-tung…

Follows recent trends in Austrian higher education which have brought about significant reforms. Trends include emphasis on teaching instead of research and easier access to institutions of higher education. Journal availability: see SO 507 243. (Author/DB)

Traces the roots of composition instruction to the nineteenth century and shows the origins of many current traditions in writing, as well as describing the first "crisis" in basic skills, which took place in about 1870. (DD)

Social promotion is accomplishing what it was intended to do; it is relieving the various grades of over-age, floundering students. If we are to help these potential failures, we must devise new educational systems. (Editor)

Planning and implementing a community health education practicum for undergraduate students serves to involve faculty in the actual delivery of health services, and effectively breaks down "Ivory Tower" isolation. (MB)

Investigates the essential differences between the English and Scottish systems of education. (Editor/RK)

There are three alternative means for granting college credit for learning achieved outside the academy--credit for non-collegiate courses, credit by examination, and credit for experiential learning. Discusses how each works and how each challenges traditional patterns. (Editor/RK)

Among the purposes for schools and roles which they perform better than other educational institutions in society are the following: they teach literacy, and they develop and encourage rational enquiry and critical intelligence. (Author/AM)

The other inflation is grade inflation, the label affixed to the indisputable rise in the grade-point averages of undergraduates at public and private, elite and community colleges and universities across the country. The effects of grade inflation upon academic performance were assessed. (Author/RK)