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This handbook is designed to guide readers in developing a local assessment of their community's progress toward achieving the National Education Goals. It is organized around those questions that the National Education Goals Panel has used to measure national and state progress. The introduction includes a history of the National Education Goals and information about the 1991 and 1992 Goals Reports. There are five characteristics that are useful for local community goal reports: outcome orientation, world-class standards comparison, use of broad indicators, progress over time, and decade-long progress. The guide is organized around the six National Education Goals. Each section is devoted to one of the six goals, beginning with the goal statement and objectives. These are followed by appropriate questions to ask in assessing progress toward that goal. Next is a section titled "Measures To Use," in which each question is taken up individually, with answers provided that were developed in the 1992 National Education Goals Reports, the pages on which the data appear in the report, and suggestions on how to answer them in a local report. At the end of each goal section is a list of sources that can provide more information on specific goal areas. (JPT)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert