What kind of bilingual education was being offered in New Jersey's schools before the Bilingual Education Act? What should be offered? (Editor)

There is a role for the classroom teacher in teaching fire safety. Discusses the inadequacies of present fire prevention programs and provides ten specific steps teachers can take to avoid suffering and death from fire. (Author/RK)

Argues that a common core should be concerned with teaching objectives rather than subject curricula. (Editor/RK)

Contends that teachers need more than the traditional incentives to strive for excellence in teaching. Describes several community incentives and related incentives that can provide the setting for creating excellence among teachers. (Editor/RK)

This paper examines, briefly, the basis and outline of career education in public schools, presents data showing the extent of college graduate job experimentation and provides a possible classroom approach to career education in colleges. (Author)

Partners in Arts and Learning (PAL) is a continuous school-and community-based program which promotes arts in education in all the arts disciplines for all students; encourages the use of professional artists in classrooms as teachers and exemplars; promotes the use of artists as leaders of professional development workshops; builds support for…

Discusses the use of the city of Detroit as a design laboratory to operate Sloan Foundation programs in engineering education. Concludes that the student managed program provides valid and valuable educational experience by finding solutions to real world problems. (CC)

Discusses the role of the Master Teacher, his ability to communicate with his pupils, and programs for developing teachers who wish to become Master Teachers. (RK)

Recommendations for treatment, which resulted from an evaluation of published literature, are presented. (JM)

Based on a program at Syracuse University which focused on inner city high school graduates, this article recommends support programs necessary to aid such students. Recommendations include weekly meetings with project students, pre-course preparation, various remedial courses, mini-courses, and associate degrees. (JB)

Author comments on the campus revolt at Northwestern University and states that educational reforms demanded by campus strikes are designed to open the university to the community, to student government and to all political and social expediencies. (IR)

Concrete description of the components and operation of an institution based on "a new pattern of teacher education and responsive to community needs, and one which the author envisions as "the logical next step in urban higher education. (JS)

International education and foreign language instruction are seen as so weak and underfunded that fundamental American security interests are jeopardized. A model of a federally-supported international education grant program is proposed that would serve as an umbrella structure for generating, coordinating, funding, and implementing new…

Tips for obtaining computers for educational use are presented in this article about grants and foundations, for free computers, from the computer companies of Apple, Atari, and Tandy/Radio Shack. Also discussed are Commodore Business Machines, Osborne Computing Corporation, and Texas Instruments. (CJ)