Offers an author's thoughts on winning the Newbery Medal. Reveals the writer's background and his tentative beginnings as a children's author. (NKA)

Lists 100 specialists from libraries, instructional media centers, and computer labs in schools across the country and their projects or achievements using educational technologies during this past school year. (Author/LRW)

James L. Hymes, Jr., former President of NAEYC and member of the original Head Start Planning Committee, is interviewed about his hopes for and disappointments with Head Start during the past 20 years. Highlights Head Start's initial benefits to families, children, and the early childhood profession; program quality; and continued lack of federal…

Presents a new framework in which to view the library profession and its system of formal education. The role of the librarian is compared with those of other professionals, especially in terms of differences in status. (CD)

Unless schoolteachers are respected as professionals, the drive to improve education will stall, according to educators speaking at the first national meeting of the Holmes Group, an organization of research universities dedicated to reforming teacher education. Regional priorities, goals, liberal-arts graduates as instructors, and Black teachers…

Merit pay for teachers is fine in principle, but teachers must have a role in evaluation. The problems that concern merit teaching exit between teacher and principal. It is a question of checks and balances; administrators will play favorites as will teachers. (MLW)

Empower teachers by giving them control over organizational and instructional decisions. To improve education and attract and retain good teachers, restructure teaching as a self-governing profession like medicine, with comparable self-determined standards for entry and advancement, assumption of professional integrity and expertise, and…

Describes the 1983 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching and the various activities and receptions for the 104 award winners. Includes lists of gifts given to teachers, as well as information for the 1984 competition. (JM)

An analysis of the changing characteristics and values of Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) professors, based on a review of the historical record, a recent survey of the membership, and an earlier study is presented. (MLW)

Attempts to account for the low prestige of schools of education, especially among elite universities. Urges that university leadership challenge this state of affairs. Proffers reasons why schools of education are partly to blame for their lowly status but argues, nevertheless, that these schools are indispensable and deserve more prestige. (RDN)

Projected labor shortages in psychiatry have prompted studies identifying factors that influence medical students in career choice. Self-images as individuals were compared with professional images of psychiatrists using subjects from internal medicine as a control group. (Author/MLW)

Offers recommendations for developing a system of teacher staffing and evaluation that would improve teacher performance and the state of education in general. Discusses incentive and reward systems, performance evaluation, career advancement and enrichment, and other issues. (KH)

Tomorrow's teacher will have to be a scholar, acquainted with all of the arts and sciences. (MM)

A study focused primarily on determining whether women and men are being published at equal rates in the leading journals of the National Communication Association (NCA). The study also examined whether: females publish more in a particular area or journal; mixed-sex collaboration is as prevalent as same-sex collaboration; female scholars produce…

This paper analyzes biases in academe concerning what constitutes "legitimate" and "rigorous" scholarship and examines how these biases interact with decision-making power to place minority scholars and their research into a traditionally ascriptive secondary role. Looking specifically at the Chicano/Latino scholar, it is…