The Connecticut State Incentives Project to Identify and Reward Exemplary Teaching began with a twofold purpose: first, to provide assistance to seven local districts in developing plans to identify and reward exemplary teaching, and second, to enable the Connecticut State Department of Education to share the common elements of these plans with…

Edward R. Murrow is considered by many to be the first serious practitioner of broadcast journalism. In the 1950s he pioneered in developing the television documentary form with the "See It Now" series. A second series, "Person to Person," played a large part in popularizing the televised celebrity interview. Characterizations…

American library schools are confronted by the problems of declining enrollment, changing modern technologies, and a shrinking market for their graduates. The extension of courses to include information science is a welcome direction, although it seems to reflect a lack of confidence in the traditional library science education. For librarianship…

An institution of higher education requires an evaluation scheme that measures program and service quality and value and justly recognizes and evaluates faculty efforts. The department chairperson assumes a leadership role in planning and implementing an academic promotion and faculty recognition system and in evaluating the success of the…

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), a private, nonprofit body, was established in 1987 to address the need for uniform teaching criteria and improved methods for gauging how well such standards are met. The NBPTS is comprised of 63 members who are teachers (the majority), school administrators, local board members,…

This paper reviews the literature pertaining to the life situation of black female professionals, presents the results of a research project which investigated the attitudes of some black female professionals on various issues such as the feminist movement and balancing a career and family, and offers a discussion and summary of the data and…

To explore the subjective dimensions of public relations practitioner orientations toward their profession in the context of the organizational roles they play, this study combined characteristics of both large-sample survey research and indepth, intensive inquiry. Membership lists of the Public Relations Society of America, the International…

Argues that education has become a declining industry, and that the training administrators must concentrate both on producing highly competent specialists in various skill areas, and on bringing some equity to our production of educational resources in educational administration. (Author/JM)

A survey of alternative models of education is presented metaphorically. Alternatives suggested include schools more like mobile homes, teaching hospital complexes, summer camps, art classrooms, professional practice, a physician's practice, and libraries and museums. (SDH)

Argues that, like racist and sexist discrimination, social class discrimination is a pervasive and deeply entrenched phenomenon, focusing on two manifestations in the profession of psychology, access to full professional status and the delivery of psychological services. (Author/JM)

Reported is an investigation of the social origins of American scientists and scholars. Exhaustive data, gathered over a 40 year period, were reviewed and were gathered from sources reflecting geographical, baccalaureate, and social class variations. To a significant extent these variations were associated with the kind of a religious-ethnic group…

In an effort to help overcome present deficiencies in African university libraries, the author proposes improved training for librarians, recognition of the librarians' professional status, subject specialization, continuing education for academic librarians, and improved library organization. (LS)

The paper reports results of a study of the distribution of productivity among sociologists who publish. Previous research had indicated that a large percentage of sociologists do not publish very often. In this study, a random sample of 300 Ph.D. members of the American Sociological Association were queried about their publishing activities. The…

The two-professional marriage that begins during the period of preprofessional or professional training is apt to break down during the immediate posttraining period. Reasons for this occurrence are discussed in the light of marital dynamics and adult developmental issues, with special emphasis on female professional role development. (Author)

Teacher differences in South America, Europe, and Africa are examined. Under consideration are teacher education, professional identity, and salaries. (DE)