Author feels that the profession does not respect college composition because it does not respect the people who teach it", and offers recommendations for upgrading the faculty teaching composition. (Author/SP)

The present study focused on the status of the occupation of high school counselor in the social system of the school. The counselor was ranked 8 in the 14 school occupations, placing between high school department chairman and high school teacher. (Author)

The author believes that a highly qualified and mature executive serving as a management coach may be a valuable method to overcome communication gaps existing between different divisions of an industry. (EK)

As an introduction to the symposium, Unfinished Business of the Teaching Profession," this article provides a framework for viewing contemporary criticism of the public schools and the teaching profession. (JH)

This paper presents several sociological criteria of the professionalization process and considers the current professionalized status of school psychology. Some implications for the direction of future roles for school psychology are discussed. (Author/BY)

On a rated hierarchy of 18 positions within a school system, graduate students rated the counselor as sixth, below teachers. However, this ranking, after further analysis, indicated little influence upon counselor prestige which was relatively high. (CJ)

Urges women librarians to rise up against a long-suffered sexual discrimination in library employment. (Editor)

Student personnel workers must value highly those working directly and successfully with students, and place only their best workers in direct contact with students. (Author)

For 200 years, sciences have been arranged in a hierarchy with natural sciences at the top and social sciences at the bottom. Those at the top are thought to display more consensus and more rapid advancement. However, in current research, there are no systematic differences between sciences in these areas. (Author/IS)

In this brief response to Soltis's paper, Siegel argues that professional philosophers of education have no special obligation to focus on questions relevant to educational practice or to speak to any specific audience. Their sole obligation, rather, is to do credible philosophy of education, an obligation that requires autonomy from educationally…

A program to reward exceptional art teachers, sponsored by the Chroma Acrylics Corporation, is described. Application procedures, conditions, award winners, and the projects they plan with the award money are covered. (IS)

The Olympia Conference on the Future of School Psychology--designed to develop action strategies on critical issues of the next 25 years--was cosponsored by the American Psychological Association's Division 16 and the National Association of School Psychologists. Conference origins in the Spring Hill Symposium, issues, leadership, and design are…

The written works and experiences of Kurt Hahn and Robert Greenleaf are examined to illustrate their roles in developing the service ethic concepts -- the samaritan-ethic (Hahn) and service-learning (Greenleaf). (BRR)

Offers three lines of evidence associated with the need to better educate the public about the child care profession, suggesting ways for achieving this objective. (MP)