Describes the program of the Houston (Texas) High School for Health Professions, which combines traditional high school subjects with health-oriented subjects and with laboratory sessions in patient care and clinical and research areas at Baylor College of Medicine. (Author/IRT)

The key to the successful problem-solving process is the educational engineer, whose role is to make specific practical applications of knowledge gained by research. An educational engineer program is offered to the schools by a regional service agency in Pennsylvania. (Author/IRT)

The sparsity of significant positive relationships between the National Teacher Examination (NTE) scores and teaching performance ratings, when coupled with the presence of a few significant negative relationships, tends to undermine confidence in the relationship of NTE scores to teaching performance ratings. (Author/IRT)

The choice that a voucher proposition offers is between weakening the public schools still further by encouraging flight from them and strengthening the public schools by recalling them to their historic purpose of promoting the ideals of the democratic civic community. (Author)

Describes and argues for the California Initiative for Family Choice, a voucher plan proposed for the state of California. (IRT)

Discusses the baseline data of a longitudinal study of how public aid to private schools will affect both public and private schools in British Columbia. Discusses some reasons for the commitment of teachers, students, and parents to the private schools. (IRT)

Recounts the less obvious deleterious impact that Proposition 13 has had on education in California. (IRT)

In comparing his experience in teaching in a private elementary school with teaching in a public school, the author emphasizes the shared values and goals of teachers and parents in the private school and the freedom in reduced state regulation. (IRT)

A superintendent offers suggestions on what school districts should and should not do to increase the effectiveness of the schools during a time of reduced financing. (IRT)

Outlines provisions of the National Energy Policy Conservation Act of 1978, which provides federal financing for energy conservation programs in the public schools. (IRT)

One lesson to be learned from the turmoil in Idaho that resulted from the passage of a Proposition 13-like tax limitation measure is that the electorate doesn't understand the tax system. Voters seemed to want to reduce property taxes while preserving school programs. (Author/IRT)

Argues that reform of public education is possible through a combination of programs of remedial education, enrichment, and alternative education, and changes in the structure of education that come from vouchers and the 45-15 year-round school schedule. (IRT)

Schools of education need to broaden their mission to open up realistic new career options in education in order to attract the kinds of talented persons who entered education in the 1960s. While the demand for schoolteachers has declined, the overall demand for learning in this society has vastly expanded. (Author/IRT)

Presents the full report of the Gallup poll of public attitudes toward the public schools. (IRT)

The schools must deal with the implications of nuclear power--in unbiased, concrete, clear ways. They must be in the forefront of knowledge dissemination about nuclear power. (Author/IRT)