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"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of the arts in education--poetry, music, and art; learning to speak properly; the separation of speech and writing; music education; teaching children about art; and a pilot television program which teaches math skills. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Connie Goldman; Stanley Kiesel; Victor Drilea; Conrad Stawski; Winnifred Horner; Leo T. Burley; Howard Gardner; Ellsworth Erikson; and Jesus Torvino. (JM)

"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)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of the book "Simple Justice" by Richard Kluger; writing seminars for judges and lawyers, held by the American Academy of Judicial Education; the teaching of writing; visual literacy--picture words; teacher internships; SIGI--the System of Interactive Guidance Information; changing jobs; and the PKU birth defect. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Donald Bigelow; Ronald Goldfarb, of the American Academy of Judicial Education; Richard Lloyd-Jones; John Dibbs, of the International Visual Literacy Association; Leland Dean; Arthur Krohle, of the Educational Testing Service; Susan Thomas; and Joe and Janelle Reardon. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of learning how to file your income tax; the use of mini-electronic calculators by high school and college students; consumer education for children; third graders and elementary economics; and the funding of education--the federal and state roles. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Barry Mailer; reporters Karen Sughrue, David Zarnow, Mike McKesson, and Dave Miles; Doris Hadari; Goodman Ace; Timothy Little and William Joyce; George Vredeveld; Peggy Poe; Jackie Rice; Paul Saltman; Phillip Austin, of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and Trevor Colburn. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of Jonathon Kozol's book "The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home," the voucher system in education, and California's early education plan and "Reform for Intermediate and Secondary Education" report. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Donald Bigelow; David Tyack; David Mandel and Robert Cunningham, of the National Institute of Education; Wilson Riles; and reporter David Ensor. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of federal money for colleges and universities; the high school proficiency test in California; the writing problems of college students; letters from listeners about schooling and jobs; the Arts Impact program in Columbus, Ohio; and women in education, including facts about Martha Washington and nonsexist classroom techniques. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Harold Howe II, of the Ford Foundation; reporters Rose Tobin, Gary Gottschalk, and Jennifer Alt; Gloria Rapinchuk; Merle Levine; and Janice Earle. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of things that history textbooks leave out; a review of "Schooling in Capitalistic America" by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis; liberal parents and radical children--what happened in the 1960s; Catholic education; two monologues by poet Keith Gunderson; games and experiments, as well as recipes, for children in the kitchen; and "Sesame Street." Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Howard Zinn; Donald Bigelow; Midge Decter; John Powers; Keith Gunderson; Sara Bonnett Stein; and Gerald Lesser. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of volunteer parent tutors in a junior high school, the feminization of the teaching profession, the test score controversy, busing as an issue in the political primaries, and busing and the role of the social scientist. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; parents, students, and faculty of Eisenhower Junior High School in Laurel, Maryland; reporters Kathy Lewis and David Ensor; Maxine Seller; Gail Kelley; Marshall Smith, of the National Institute of Education; Pat Caddell; Ben Wattenberg; Mark Shields; James M. Coleman; and Kenneth B. Clark. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of conflict in theory--education in America, difficulties in dramatizing today's racism, and children's relationships in a predominately black school; conflict in research--marijuana and sexual response, teaching basic skills through drama, and an energy conservation, youth training program; and conflict in practice--women in education and preparing women for administrative advancement. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; author Jonathon Kozol; Kenneth B. Clark; Gretchen Schafft; Harris Rubin; Virgil Harwood; Joe Janetti; and Virginia Nordin. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions with Bruno Bettelheim on the importance of fairy tales for children, with Frank Williams on tensions in children when they try to create, and with Donald Bigelow on "Loudmouse" by Richard Wilbur, "Me" by William Saroyan, and "9 Magic Wishes" by Shirley Jackson. The program also includes "Death Knocks Twice" a melodrama produced by Lise Gerard, a senior in high school, and a free-form poem about a trip to Disneyland by Garla Olivia Alcorn. John Merrow and Wendy Blair are moderators. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of the national commitment to desegregated education, racial conflict in the classroom, learning how to set up a publishing business, women in education (mathematics and sex) and education news highlights. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Nathaniel Jones, of the NAACP; students Nan Parati and Belinda Shivers; Ernest Green, of the Recruitment and Training Program, Inc.; author Jonathon Kozol; Julia and Frank Markus; John Ernest; and Sheila Tobias. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions of Individually Guided Education, a program which was developed at the University of Wisconsin Research & Development Center; creative playacting; women in education, including children's perceptions of women and their roles (first of a series); responses to a previous program concerning alumni contributions; and education news highlights. Participants in the program are John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Louis Romano; Dan Lockwood; Isabel Burger, of the Children's Theatre Association; Eric Saunders; and Selma Greenberg. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions on learning how to be Santa Claus and on the financial status of public school districts in Compton and Beverly Hills, California; Seattle, Washington; Columbus, Ohio; Madison, Wisconsin; and Montgomery County, Maryland. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; John Ryor, of the National Education Association; reporter Connie Goldman; and representatives from the various school districts. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions of civil rights and school desegregation, learning to drive a school bus, and parental participation in the control of schools. Participants in this part of the program are John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Arthur Fleming, Frankie Freeman, and Peter Holmes, of the United States Civil Rights Commission; Stan Salett, of the National Committee for Citizens in Education; and reporter Connie Goldman. In addition, reporter David Freudberg interviews four people--a gym teacher, a cafeteria worker, a student, and a teacher--at the Horace Mann Middle School in Boston, where desegregation is proceeding smoothly. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions of the guaranteed-student-loan investigation, child abuse, the Experimental and Bilingual Institute in Spanish Harlem, and learning how to tune a piano. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; reporter David Ensor and witnesses at recent loan-investigation hearings; Douglas Besharov, from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect; Robert Sequin, of the Washington, D.C., Police Youth Division; Sue Besharov, psychiatric social worker; Vincent deFrancis, of the American Humane Association; Annette Ficker, pediatrician; James H. Lincoln, judge; Maryanne Stein, from the Child Advocacy Center in Washington, D.C.; and Rodriguez Lisboa and Santiago Villa Fanye, of the Experimental and Bilingual Institute. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the first show contains discussions of college enrollment, the controversy over standardized testing, hyperactivity in school children, the rash of teacher strikes, and how to become a professional golfer. Participants in the program are John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; Stephen Bailey, American Council on Education; Bernard McKenna and Terry Herndon, National Education Association; David Nolan, Educational Testing Service; August Steinhilber, National School Boards Association; Lonna Naegel, Public Station KSAC; Peter Schrag, author of "The Myth of the Hyperactive Child"; and Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio. (JM)

"Options in Education" is a radio program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions of the Supreme Court decision on private-school desegregation, the Community College of Vermont, child abuse, and learning how to be a paralegal worker. Participants in the program include John Merrow and Wendy Blair, moderators; reporter David Ensor; Connie Capastrant, of the National Capitol Area Paralegal Association; Marjorie Walker and Larry Daloz, officials at the Community College of Vermont; and experts on child abuse. A bibliography of available source material on child abuse is included. (JM)

Teaching about moral issues is discussed in this transcript of "Options in Education," an electronic weekly magazine. Directed toward educators and students, the program covers news, features, policy, and people in the field of education and is available for broadcasting to member stations of National Public Radio. Seventeen montages deal with values clarification, morality, moral dilemmas, alienation, secular humanism, and controversial curriculum materials. Discussants include students, teachers, professors, school board members, authors, and directors of national associations including the National Education Association, the Street Law Program, the National Right to Life Movement, and Planned Parenthood. Subjects that are dramatized focus on the right to lie and steal under extreme conditions, the appropriateness of transmitting moral values through public education, values clarification versus traditional American values, teacher values versus student values, conflict between parental and societal values, teaching sex education in school, and controversial textbooks. (Author/DB)

Provided is the transcript of Part IV of a five-part series on gifted children in the schools, presented by Options in Education -- a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. The topic "Problems of Parenting" is covered with an introduction and discussion of such issues as parent roles, attitudes, discipline, labeling, talent identification, peer acceptance, and behavior problems. Among participants listed are gifted and talented children and their parents, and such educators and experts as B. Boston, R. Slencynska, M. Farrell, and G. Robb. (IM)

Provided is the transcript of Part III of a five-part series on gifted children in the schools, presented by Options in Education -- a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage on news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. The topic "What to Do with the Gifted Child at School" is covered with an introduction; comments by gifted students; and a discussion of such issues as attitudes, teacher role, skill development, teaching methods, and demographic factors. Among participants listed are such artists, educators, and experts as B. Boston, L. Senesh, R. May, S. Starr, and D. Treffinger. (IM)

Provided is the transcript of Part II of a five-part series on gifted children in the schools, presented by Options in Education -- a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. The program focuses on the topic "Can You Really Tell a Gifted Child When You Meet One?" and includes a discussion of characteristics of the gifted child by C. Johnson Participants listed include a pianist and a poet, and such educators and experts as J. Renzulli (on methods of identifying the gifted child and adult), S. Novotny (on the gifted child in rural areas), M. Meeker (on the structure of intelligence), and A. Baldwin and C. Jordan (on identifying the disadvantaged gifted child). (IM)

Provided is the transcript of Part II of a two-part series on education for the handicapped, presented by Options in Education--a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. Such issues in special education as mainstreaming; implementation of Public Law 94-142; rights of states, teachers, and parents; rights for the retarded; and identification and labeling of the handicapped are discussed. Among participants listed are disabled persons, educators, legislators A. Quie and J. Anderson, and such experts in the field of special education as J. Gallagher, C. Polivka, M. Sabo, F. Weintraub, D. Honetschlager, R. Wedl, M. Giffin, D. Hill, J. Ryor, J. Knutson, and H. Hodgkinson. (IM)

Provided is the transcript of Part I of a two-part series on education for the handicapped, presented by Options in Education--a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. Issues in special education, such as mainstreaming, implementation of Public Law 94-142, parents' roles, residential schools, attitudes, and labeling are discussed. Among participants listed are disabled students, parents of handicapped children, special education teachers, parent educators, and such experts in the field of special education as Y. Galiber, J. Gallagher, F. Weintraub, and J. Callahan. (IM)

Interviews with several individuals representing a variety of viewpoints about the recent controversy regarding textbooks and philosophy in the Kanawha County, West Virginia, public schools are presented in this transcript of a National Public Radio program broadcast in December 1974. Beginning with a discussion of the issue of textbook selection and content in Kanawha County, the interviews move into a brief but broad discussion of educational philosophy (humanism versus absolutism) of morality and the value systems of American children and American society, and of parent role and local input in schools. In addition to Kanawha County residents, school personnel, and a school board member, interviews are conducted with representatives of citizens groups based in California and Maryland, the president of the National Education Association, a staff member of the National Council of Teachers of English, and the superintendent of West Virginia schools. From these interviews it becomes clear that the controversy begun over textbooks envelops more than a few words or reading selections; it encompasses the foundations of American education and and questions who, indeed, should run our schools. (TO)

A radio program about arts in American schools includes interviews with students, art teachers, parents, and heads of research panels. The commentators point out that many people think of art as something done by geniuses. The American attitude toward art must be changed, and children should be given the opportunity for creative expression in schools. David Rockefeller, Jr., was a member of The Arts, Education and Americans Panel which recently published a report on the status of art in the schools. He recommends that art be as basic to the curriculum as mathematics, writing, and history because the arts can be basic tools of learning. Inquiries to three State Art Directors about state spending on art programs revealed that only local school districts have accurate figures on art budgets. Most are very low. Several interviews present exemplary programs. The Artists in the Schools Program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, places artists in specific schools so students can learn what an artist does and what his methods are. Architects, musicians, and poets are interviewed. Another program at the University of Massachusetts teaches children fundamental concepts of geometry through body movement, music, and large rubber bands. Concluding comments stress the need for art teachers to defend their discipline. (AV)

In this transcript of "Options in Education," a weekly feature on National Public Radio, a group of experts--George Weber, Reed Whittemore, Goodman Ace, Herbert O. Reid, Albert Shanker, Harold Hodgkinson, Zachary Clements, Joseph Cronin, John Pittenger, and Richard King--interpret the back-to-basics movement. (IRT)

Provided is the transcript of Part V of a five-part series on gifted children in the schools, presented by Options in Education -- a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. Some personal experiences of gifted and talented persons are described; and various problems and issues relating to the education of this population are discussed, such as funding, skill development, attitudes, and labeling. Among participants listed are gifted and talented students, legislator J. Javits, and such educators and experts as H. Lyon, E. Larsh, R. Amrein, J. Renzulli, and R. Mancuso. (IM)

Provided is the transcript of Part I of a five-part series on gifted children in the schools, presented by Options in Education--a weekly radio broadcast devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education on National Public Radio. The topic of special education for the gifted is discussed by B. Boston; and pros and cons of the issue are described by such artists, educators, and specialists as L. Nevelson, H. Lyon Jr., D. Moynihan, J. Curry, M. Kahn, and R. Pohl. Children from a special classroom for gifted and talented students in Kansas City, Missouri, are interviewed. (IM)