Initiate a plan of action in your school to communicate the activities of your department to the guidance counselors. (Editor)

Presents suggestions for cooperative program design and promotion to enhance the image of business education. Stresses three principles: (1) you must have something worthwhile to promote; (2) you must build an image of excellence; and (3) the competence and enthusiasm of the teacher are the driving force. (JOW)

Argues that high school principals should work to bring the business world and the business education department closer together in order to improve the quality of education. (FL)

Teachers should integrate computer use into their classes in the same way they integrate basic skills regardless of the subject being taught. All teachers are obliged to be competent in best deciding how computers can be used in their classes. (JOW)

A study which compared the composition approach of typewriting instruction with the traditional approach found no significant difference in typewriting speed after one year of instruction. Students trained with the composition approach showed significantly fewer errors on straight-line timings. (LRA)

Reviews four broad clusters of concepts which are of fundamental importance for consumer economic understanding in the secondary school and gives suggestions that can be used to build a consumer economics program in the secondary school. (LRA)

Reports preliminary findings from students who have completed a course in consumer education which address this question: What value do you now place on selected topics in consumer education? Topics with the greatest value were budgeting, dishonest and deceptive sales schemes, automobile insurance, principles of wise buying, and value comparison.…

This excerpt of the author's address to the Business and Office Education Division of the American Vocational Association (1976 convention) presents a brief review of the background of the free enterprise system in America, how it affects the economy, why students should be taught the free enterprise system from their own point of view, and what…

Based on interviews with employers of alumni from a vocational-technical school, instructors discuss the importance of an employment interview, stressing composure, preparation, appropriate business-like attire, importance of a resume, and personality and attitude. (TA)

After noting that the best insurance of comprehensive coverage of all aspects of production transcription is the preparation of a calendar skeleton term plan before the term begins, the author describes the plan and suggests how it should be used. (HD)

Responses from 221 of 316 Georgia public secondary business programs indicated the following: 96% offer keyboarding courses, 20% require them for graduation; 93% grade technique in first semester, 46% in second semester; most used timed writings for evaluation, especially net words per minute and time-and-error; most do not allow error correction…

The advantages of integrating Business Professionals of America activities into the vocational business education classroom include student motivation and easier teaching. (JOW)

Discusses how business teachers can get students to stay in school and learn problem solving in context with teaching basic business knowledge and information processing and computer skills. (JOW)