Student poor reading ability is causing major problems in the teaching of business education. Suggestions are offered to overcome the difficulty. (BP)

A survey of secondary high school teachers and of college economists on the ideal content of an economics course for terminal high school students shows that there is a marked difference of opinion which might be bridged if the analytical tools of economics are used to help the individual understand and cope with his or her problems. (JH)

The Career Business Skills Program objective is to establish an educational program capable of producing employable graduates who possess those skills, knowledges, and attitudes necessary to enter and make progress in an entry-level position in an office career. (BP)

A new addition to the high school in Parma, a large suburban district near Cleveland, Ohio, contains space for business education courses and expansion of the library with an audiovisual center. (Author/MLF)

Discusses records management principles which provide the "whys" for practices and procedures in an efficient filing system and suggests techniques for incorporating these principles into filing instruction and for helping students develop an understanding of procedures involved in processing, storing, and retrieving records. (TA)

The author describes an approach designed to help students develop decision-making skills in an office procedures or intensive office education class. (CH)

The author discusses considerations in selecting microcomputers and printers for keyboarding instruction. (CH)

Outlines a model business-education program developed to help stop a shortage of competent personnel in the financial services industry. (MD)

Business educators should be the vanguard of the movement to promote and improve economic literacy according to the author. Some stated concerns and possible solutions to the literacy problem are presented. (HD)

Describes a way of making weekly typing assignments effective means of student motivation. Advantages and disadvantages of this technique are also listed. (HD)

Three beginning high school teachers, after combining ideas, discuss eight tips that enabled them to look forward to teaching their basic business classes. Tips cover the areas of (1) classroom management, (2) classroom projectionist, (3) lesson plans, (4) memo communication, (5) decisionmaking, (6) bonus work, (7) review, and (8) public…

The author presents an individualized instruction method for teaching beginning typing using teacher aides. It was learned that students' achievement levels were higher when the course was taught as one module for a year, rather than two modules a semester. (AG)

The Diatype Analyzer is a motor-driven typewriting device which attaches to the carriage of the typewriter and is used to diagnose students' typewriting difficulties (rhythm, difficult strokes, concentration, carriage return, operation of the shift key or space bar) more exactly than by teacher examination. (AG)