"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions of college enrollment; standardized testing; hyperactivity in school children, the drugs given to these children, and the biochemical effects of artificial flavors and colors on hyperactive children; sex discrimination in education; learning how to install a telephone (a new job for women); and adult functional competence. Participants in the program are John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Marshall Smith, National Institute of Education; Margaret Dunkle, Association of American Colleges' Project on Women; Janice Campbell, telephone installer; Peter Schrag, author of "The Myth of the Hyperactive Child"; Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio; and Ben Feingold, author of "Why Your Child Is Hyperactive." (JM)