Discusses why early childhood educators should abandon their use of teacher-oriented decorative items: (1) such items evoke stereotypes with nostalgic appeal; (2) the decorations can undermine professional image; (3) the items communicate a message of subservience; (4) the items commercialize teaching rather than elevate the profession's status;…

Professional school counselors often provide the heart and soul of a school, working with children every day to help them meet the challenges of growing up. By promoting programs during national School Counseling Week and throughout the year, counselors can help ensure students, parents, and faculty know to come to counselors and send students to…

Argues counseling has clearly reached status to be considered a profession. Presents criteria that historically have been outlined to define a profession, including specialized training, ethical standards, and strong identity with field as a profession. Discusses areas for concern and suggests need to clarify behaviors that individual counselors…

According to responses from 287 of 371 British primary school head teachers, they derive most satisfaction from interpersonal relationships and autonomy and were dissatisfied with paperwork, overload, and low status. Many more expect to be in the same position in five years than wish to be. (SK)

Discusses the specialized contributions that Scott Cutlip has made to public relations, as well as his broader legacy--the world view that has provided the conceptual underpinnings for most research on public relations and its professional practice today. (NKA)

Offers views on several issues resulting from the growth and experience obtained in teaching English to speakers of other languages. Discussed are ironies that evolved from the growth of the profession, the relationship between theory and practice, and the problem of acceptance and recognition from academia. (GLR)

Responds to previous articles by Alcorn, Altmaier, and Harris regarding counseling psychologists' involvement in health care. Maintains that present knowledge within counseling psychology is less applicable to health-related research, full participation of counseling psychologists in research and theory development in health field without…

States the importance of the act of writing in teachers' lives. Highlights the differential reward system placed on elementary, high school and college teachers' writing. Proposes that it may be the activity of writing itself that can pierce these distinctions. (PRA)

Four articles provide overviews of as many library association conferences, i.e., the American Library Association (ALA), Canadian Library Association (CLA), Medical Library Association (MLA), and Special Library Association (SLA). Highlights include budget concerns; honors and awards; social, national, and international issues; and changes in the…

Sees questions of professional identity and minimal entry-level continuing to be debated within school psychology and as impacting on scientist-practitioner model to which school psychologists aspire. Addresses abuse of "empirical logic" to reject notion that doctorate is appropriate degree for school psychologists. Suggests that debate…

Study examines the public's confidence in clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, master's and doctoral-level counselors, and social workers by ranking confidence levels across five case vignettes of varying severity. Results indicate that the doctoral-level counselors were perceived similarly to clinical psychologists across all cases and were…

Argues that, rather than trying to define technical communication in a nontraditional way, people should ask how those who already view technical communication in nontraditional ways can assist and challenge those who continue to view technical communication in a traditional way. (SR)

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded in December 2003 to chemist Paul C. Lauterbur and physicist Peter Mansfield for the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a long overdue recognition of the huge impact MRI has had in medical diagnostics and research is mentioned. MRI was derived, and remains an extension of nuclear magnetic resonance…

It had been more than 20 years since ACTE had held its Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, and the overwhelming success of this year's Convention guaranteed that there won't be another 20 years in between visits. More than 6,000 career and technical educators filled the Georgia World Congress Center to network with…

In the early 1990s, a small group of dedicated two-year college English faculty, led by Helon Raines, began the fight for the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), a professional organization that would give two-year college English faculty across the nation a respected identity and voice within the National Council of Teachers of English…