"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of volunteer parent tutors in a junior high school, the feminization of the teaching profession, the test score controversy, busing as an issue in the political primaries, and busing and the role of the social scientist. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; parents, students, and faculty of Eisenhower Junior High School in Laurel, Maryland; reporters Kathy Lewis and David Ensor; Maxine Seller; Gail Kelley; Marshall Smith, of the National Institute of Education; Pat Caddell; Ben Wattenberg; Mark Shields; James M. Coleman; and Kenneth B. Clark. (JM)