Concern about the thoroughness of surveys conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to collect descriptive data on the nation's nonpublic elementary and secondary schools prompted the NCES to conduct a validation study. A stratified random sample of 21 geographic areas was selected. Site visits were made to six of these…

Analysis of responses of 50 New Jersey teachers who are also parents elicited during one-hour interviews revealed that: (1) when teachers became parents they more fully understood parents and could relate to them more fully; (2) teachers believed they developed a broadened perspective toward their children; (3) teachers used the knowledge gleaned…

These proceedings of the 1983 New Jersey-Pennsylvania-Delaware conference are arranged in five sections. Section I, "National Issues," includes summaries of (1) a panel session on the role of educational research and research funding in the new Congress; (2) a paper on "most wanted answers" to questions concerning (a) teacher…