The Educational Testing Service must take on more responsibility for preparing students to take tests and to better understand the legal and social aspects of testing. (Author/AL)

This article is based on a lecture given at the 1978 Easter Course at Padgate College of Higher Education. The lecture is an analysis of the complexity of mathematics teaching and the setting of teaching standards. (MN)

Changing expectations and demands upon teachers imply that teacher training institutions need to revise and improve their effectiveness. (JD)

Efforts to protect students' consumer rights may encounter difficulty because of the heavy burdens now being placed on colleges and universities. Five ways that the concept of consumerism breaks down the educational setting are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

This article reviews a suit brought by a high school graduate against a public school district alleging negligence and misrepresentation in academic instruction. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was unable to read or write above fifth grade level because of the school's failure to educate him. The case was dismissed. (Author/GC)

Reasons and remedies for breakdown, alienation, and apathy in universities are explored. Suggestions are made for creating the conditions within which they can be reconstituted as purposive, creative, adaptable institutions continuingly satisfying the needs of their participants and the community. (LBH)

The founders of the United States envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe there must be universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education there must be democracy. But since the founding of the country, the study and practice of…

The advent of career education and the trend toward the economic model of education have brought about a role reversal for vocational education. Vocational education has switched from an insignificant part of the educational sphere to a larger role. Two concepts of the position that vocational education has reached are discussed. (DS)

This paper identifies the issues in which behavioral objectives and accountability are embedded and describes the historical context in which they have emerged in the field of education. (Author/RK)

Article stresses the need for decision makers and educational researchers to work more closely together. (ML)

The author giver her reactions to a paper by Brown and Paolucci; discusses pressures affecting administration of home economics education (measurable accountability, dwindling dollars and increased responsibilities, program expectations, and keeping abreast of new knowledge); and gives her thoughts about the future of home economics education. (CT)

The reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a school-reform law closely aligned with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB); a civil rights law; and a "cousin" of the 1996 welfare reform law. By imposing new or strengthened accountability expectations on students with disabilities and their parents, the…

Comments on the emerging concept in education of teacher malpractice, and identifies ten ways that teachers can be assured of entertaining a lawsuit in situations involving academic injury to students. (NKA)

For over fifty years, speaker after speaker ? university presidents, business leaders, Presidents of the United States ? have praised our system of higher education as the finest in the world,but even as we bask in the afterglow of past achievements a starker reality is emerging on the horizon. For the first time in decades the United States no…

Describes the supervisor's changing role, especially with regard to evaluation, performance contracts, and changing teacher behavior. (SP)