Analysis of several translations of a single passage in the New Testament can teach students a great deal about style. (DD)

The folklore institutions and personal experiences, as well as that to be found in books, can be topics for research and written compositions.

Even though the increasing amount of multimedia material available for technology-assisted classrooms can make presentations more attractive and aesthetically pleasing, instructors and administrators should be aware of the increased demand on technology resources that the new graphics and animation programs create. Use of these materials…

Advantages and disadvantages of an academic dean's participation in collective negotiations are discussed. A negotiating chief academic officer must keep a fine sense of balance between his immediate role as institutional representative at the bargaining table and his long-term task of providing instructional leadership for the campus. (NHM)

Urges teachers of literature to respect and honor the simplicity of the common reader, marginalized among the experts. Advocates a kind of reading that includes them and does not undermine their confidence in themselves as readers and in the text as readable. Urges teachers to render simplicity more complex and to rejoin the common reader. (SR)

This directory of preparatory trade and industrial training programs in the public schools of the United States was compiled to help meet a continuing demand for current information about specific courses available in the schools. In addition to day trade programs, it includes part-time cooperative training programs meeting the standards of the…

As part of the national campaign of the American Nurses Association (ANA) to create two levels of nursing, one for bachelor of science nurses (BSN's) and one for associate degree nurses (ADN's), Illinois has been targeted for a legislative push to change the laws governing nurse licensure, which, if successful, would signal the beginning of the…

Analysis of data from a broad national survey of postsecondary occupational education institutions was used to determine: (1) the demographic and educational characteristics of two at-risk groups--individuals with limited educational achievement and individuals with physical handicaps; (2) the educational programs in which these two groups are…

Includes reports from three divisions of the Association for Education in Journalism: "Exchanging Teaching Ideas, Practices Major Aim of Photojournalism Division,""Secondary Education Division Promotes Journalism in Any Setting," and "Graphics Division Emphasis Shifting toward Development of Teaching Aids." (KS)

Explores a rhetoric of science and technology and hales it as the only language connecting an international community, prompted by the failure of the humanities to create a functional rhetoric. (RB)

This handbook is designed for use by teachers engaged in interactive televised instruction in any of the following ways: via communications satellite reception, with student communication over telephone lines; via microwave systems, which allow two-way video and audio between sites; or via Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS), which is a…

Articulation is a complex concept dealing with a wide variety of processes pertaining to admissions, scheduling, orientation, counseling, and many other areas and activities. Recent concern with articulation has generated conferences and new programs concerned with facilitating the transfer process. Some of the highlights are noted in this…

A holistic case can encompass the whole of technical writing by allowing the student to experience the total communication act in which the technical task and data are fully integrated into the rhetorical situation. The salient components of a holistic case are the persona of the technical professional, the facts about the technical problem and…

Much of the clamor about instructional relevance today results from student dissatisfaction with (1) the narrow and anachronistic definition of literature commonly given by teachers, (2) the artificial compartmentalizing of literary works, and (3) the assumption that literature can only be apprehended through analysis. Rather than concentrating…