A Look at Education's Role Today.

Overview & Synopsis

This issue of "Georgia ALERT" contains a series of articles focused on specific issues confronting schools and education today. "Education and the World Around Us: How Will Schools Cope?" (Kristin Summerlin) looks at the 1990s and what this decade will hold for children in school. A section on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) education by Merri Sheffield contains four articles: "Students and AIDS: A Doctor's Crusade,""AIDS: What You Should Know,""Gwinnett County: A Case Study," and "One Family's Story." Other sections focus on teenage pregnancy ("Giving Teen Mothers a Second Chance at School" by Kristin Summerlin), parent education ("Helping Parents Prepare Their Children for School" by Kristin Summerlin), environmental education ("Expanding the Classroom to Encompass the World" by Wagers Chenault), drug and alcohol education ("Georgia Schools Go Beyond 'Just Say No'" by Judy Whidby Hall), homeless students ("Missing School Is Just One of Many Traumas" by Gale Samuels), and teaching tolerance ("A World of Difference" by Kristin Summerlin). (NB)