Today's top 10 educational issues are: (1) children held in low esteem; (2) changing work force demographics requiring a new vision of training and hiring objectives; (3) a corner-cutting ethic promoting mediocrity; (4) the development of ethnic "beachheads" which impede the assimilation of immigrants into American society; (5) leadership guided by public opinion polls; (6) the prevalence of competitions and contests in schools; (7) reliance on "rubber" yardsticks in place of national education standards; (8) continued erosion of federal support accompanied by lack of financial equity in the schools; (9) preoccupied parents who spend little time with their children; and (10) a geometrically expanding information base requiring multimedia approaches transcending the printed word. A great deal of cooperative energy will have to be expended to convert these challenges into opportunities for improvement. (MLH)