Reviews a book which asserts that "there is no higher moral challenge than to hold on to the promise and goodness of a child when others...do not recognize that promise." The book discusses questions about children's futures, stressing the importance of doing something to help disadvantaged children living on the edge. This article examines six…

Background: Because of school districts' interest in best serving the health needs of students, many choose to administer surveys addressing controversial topics. Administering such surveys in a voluntary and anonymous manner may help reduce conflict. Methods: This is a review of 2 recent federal court of appeals decisions regarding surveying…

Discusses the growing field of continuing professional education, including who the providers are and how they currently interact. Providers are (1) higher education, (2) professional associations, (3) employers, and (4) independent providers. Suggests research on outcomes of collaboration. (CH)

Discusses aspects of a professional studio acting program at the university level. (PD)

Discusses future needs of education based on the theories of Alvin Toffler's book, "The Third Wave." Cooperative education programs provide a system for educating a workforce that is well-grounded in practical experience and that is what Third Wave employers increasingly need. (JOW)

Adult educators are faced with a dilemma which lies between the traditional design and use of the curriculum with its aims and objectives as a system of control and the natural freedom of the more highly motivated and articulate adult student/consumer. (SK)

Social studies teachers must realize that they are the key guardians of our democratic system. The level of sophistication of the social studies profession must be raised. To accomplish this, we must choose people who value scholarship and who are strong models of sociopolitical participation to become social studies teachers. (RM)

The impact of the accountability movement is examined in terms of the defensiveness which such programs have caused among educators and its emphasis on what schools cannot do rather than what they can do. (JMF)

Foreign language study has a humanistic value that should not be ignored. Foreign language study is as essential to a liberal arts education as is the study of mathematics to an education in technological and scientific fields. (HOD)

The basic skills should be taught at all levels in our schools. They should be wrapped in practicality so that the student appreciates the basic skills and realizes that they have an application in his or her future life. (JOW)

Enumerates ways in which university sociology departments can help students find out about career possibilities in the field of sociology. Suggestions include providing information on employment opportunities and graduate programs, identifying occupations of graduated sociology majors, advising students about employment and graduate school, and…

Challenges Higgs'"ambivalent" position about the role of the university (presented in a previous article), contending that the university can still retain its character as "a community of reason" (Higgs' main argument) without abandoning its social role vis-a-vis nation building. (EV)

Argues that through effective delivery of support services, compensatory and social functioning skills workshops, and increased faculty awareness, institutions of higher education can help meet the needs of learning disabled college students. (RS)

Discusses several issues associated with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in the education community. Describes three approaches for dealing with AIDS in the school district. Asserts that students must be educated about AIDS, since a large number of youths will become susceptible to acquiring the disease. (MM)

A survey of 343 administrators, county agents, specialists, and secretaries in Mississippi Cooperative Extension received 295 responses showing that 43 percent of agents and secretaries felt that administrators were responsible for keeping them current with computer technology by providing training opportunities and released time; and most…