Discusses the philosophy of career education and suggests that the focus should be directed away from traditional industrial values that emphasize production and consumption to more humanistic values that reduce competitiveness and soften the distinction between work and leisure. (Author/DW)

Presents results of traditional evaluation methods applied to an alternative high school showing that alternative schools can withstand and should welcome evaluation processes. (DW)

To prepare for life in the real world, an "American Problems" course sends students into the community for practical, involved, experience learning in community agencies and activities. (DW)

Describes an alternative career education program for high school seniors where independent study contracts send students into the community to explore careers and seek information as volunteer workers. (DW)

Enthusiastic, project-centered teaching helped high school students in Anaheim, California, to improve attendance records, gain credits, and to adopt more positive attitudes toward school. (DW)

FOCUS, a program aimed at student valuing, self-image, and interpersonal relations, was found by a national Title III validation team to have improved student attitude toward school, increased attendance, and raised academic achievement. (DW)

The United States spends a larger proportion of its Gross National Product (GNP) on educational services than does any other industrialized nation, and expenditures have grown faster than the GNP for 20 years. The author suggests a strategy for reversing this trend and seven prominent educators comment. (Author)

A massive international study is shedding new light on one of today's most sensitive questions: What really accounts for differences in children's academic achievement? The author offers a summary of recent research and speculation. (Author)

A massive international study is shedding light on one of today's most sensitive questions: What really accounts for differences in children's academic achievement? The author discusses eight landmarks in the study and gives suggestions for use by policymakers. (Author/JF)

Discusses some of the prerequisites for the successful operation of the political process in effecting educational change: decentralization of authority, freedom of information, and fiscal power in the hands of the consumer. (Author)

An analysis of decisions in San Francisco's instructional languages case and in two cases involving pregnancy leave for teachers. (Author)

In Alberta, Canada, at the rim of the great western plains, an enthusiastic group has shown how teachers can have family fun while learning a lot of science firsthand -- at small financial cost. (Author)

The Class of 1984 is now in grade two. Looks at the role the schoolhouse will play in shaping the future of the class of '84. (Author)

Provides a fast motivating method for providing people with practice in making discriminations among simulation games, nonsimulation games, nongame simulations, instructional games, noninstructional games, instructional simulation games, etc. (Author)