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Suggests that academic research in journalism needs to deal with more relevant problems and issues faced by the newspaper industry to better prepare students for the profession and to bring needed credibility and respect to journalism schools. (HTH)

Describes the development of a booklet on careers in journalism for students in a high-school journalism class based on interviews of former high-school graduates who had become journalists. (HOD)

Offers tips on using computers effectively in high school journalism programs. (MM)

Suggests ways community college journalism instructors can recruit and retain students in journalism classes (e.g., host a high school press day, fund a journalism scholarship, sponsor events for high school journalism teachers and advisers, serve as counselor for journalism majors, have a yearly journalism convocation, and involve campus…

Stresses the importance of bringing professional journalists and artists into the high school journalism class. (RB)

Suggestions to junior high school journalism teachers and advisers for revising the journalism curriculum, teaching the course, and advising the publications staff. (RL)

Suggests teaching a unit on propaganda in high school journalism classes to help students be more critical of what they read and see. (TJ)

Suggests the use of a high school journalism class for training leaders of the school newspaper, for developing reporters, and for creating a sales staff. (TJ)

High school journalism courses, far from teaching a narrow discipline, have the potential of fulfilling most of youth's 10 imperative needs, according to this author. (Editor)

Stresses the role of the high school journalism teacher or publications adviser to teach press rights and responsibilities and offers some suggested teaching units, lessons, and materials. (HOD)

Tells how a telephone conference hookup enabled students in a New Jersey high school journalism class to interview the United States ambassador to West Germany in Bonn. (GW)

Describes a system for grading high school journalism students that depends on keeping a student file that contains student job descriptions, evaluation checklists, and evaluations by the teacher. (RL)

Describes an independent study unit that enables students in a high school journalism class to research their future positions as newspaper staff members, formulate goals for the coming year, and become better prepared for their staff work. (GT)

Recommends that high school journalism departments consider publishing general interest magazines that combine the best of a news magazine and a literary magazine. Includes suggestions for cover ideas, format, headline positioning, and sections that might be included regularly. (TJ)