Since the mid-1980s, tremendous attention has been focused on what students should know and be able to do as a result of K-12 education. An overview of U.S. citizens' opinions of what standards should be emphasized in the K-12 curriculum is presented in this report. The findings are based on responses by 2,553 adults who rated whether…

This paper examines college and university educational administration (EDAD) professional-preparation programs and their current inertia caused by an intellectually based "war over standards" of knowledge and information. It describes how much of EDAD professional-preparation programs' approach to knowledge is largely premised in…

An introduction by Florence D. Grebner setting the discussion topic in context and three substantive papers on the future for professionalism within the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) form the body of this document. The first of the substantive papers, entitled "Are We a Profession? An Emerging…

Describes research on the relationship between student learning and teaching speed, as measured by number of textbook pages covered or some quantity determining the mental effort required to learn the material presented each period. Concludes that for optimum teaching efficiency, teaching rate should be an average between fast and slow. (MLH)

Article contained data pertinent to the characteristics of member schools of the NCA. (RK)

Many in higher education view career education as a threat. However, career education adds to the sum of the educational parts and doesn't threaten established curricula. Rather, it seeks to give conventional offerings purpose and meaning at a time when young people are searching for purpose and meaning. (MW)

The papers in this document include the following chapters: "Improving the Collaboration of Vocational and Academic Educators" (Owens); "Subject Matter of Vocational Education: A Look toward the Future" (Copa); "Strengthening Academic Competencies of Vocational Students in West Virginia" (Burdette); "Blueprint…

Because positive changes in a school's capacity to educate all its students are not automatic, the California Department of Education has launched an educational reform model embodied in a comprehensive School Improvement Plan (SIP). The model is based on student-centered educational standards (quality criteria) that direct the four SIP processes…

Emporia State University's (Kansas) teacher education program conducted research to determine how it could help interested students meet new admission standards and enter the teacher education program. Analysis of records of students who had not met the program's new standards indicated that some students were not aware of the new standards and…

Findings appear to bear out the contention that students tend to support a more widespred use of pass-fail grading. (Editor/PG)

Professionals' support for the concept of continuing education is contaminated by a strong opposition to any legislative mandate. Predicting that the relicensure pattern and a continuing education requirement will soon become fixtures of all professional statutes, the author recommends a task force to develop standards, programs, and evaluation…

Author reviewed formal decision making processes that have transpired over the past 3 1/2 years in considering an affirmative answer to the elementary-school-accreditation-now question. (Author/RK)

This pamphlet discusses the Modesto Plan, a program designed in 1976 by the Modesto (California) city schools to restore educational standards and public confidence. The school system's statement of principles is defined first, followed by a lengthy discussion of the major elements of the program--academic expectations and student behavior.…

THIS PAPER ON COMPARATIVE ADULT EDUCATION BEGINS BY DISCUSSING COMPARATIVE METHODS IN THE ABSTRACT. IT THEN PRESENTS TWO MODELS, AS PROPOUNDED BY A LAYMAN IN THE FIELD OF ADULT EDUCATION, AND CONCLUDES WITH A FEW SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS AS TO PROCEDURE. CURRICULUM ANALYSIS AND INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS ARE THE PROCESSES REPRESENTED IN THE PRINCIPAL…