The manual introduces the framework of STARS (Striving Together and Reaching Success), a program for serving behaviorally disordered students in grades 1-8. The underlying philosophy is to provide a consistently structured instructional program to promote successful reintegration into a less restrictive educational setting. An overview section…

The first of 18 papers in this collection is a committee report of a workshop held in Kansas City, Missouri, June 26-27, 1982, to consider instructional uses of computers in pre-college education and what colleges of education should be doing. In "Computer Education and Colleges of Education," J. Philip East provides an overview of the…

Newington (Connecticut) High School developed a gifted/talented program based on independent research, seminar sessions, course offerings in the collegiate setting, internships, and college credit programs at the school. An evening seminar series addresses topics chosen as a result of student needs assessment. The Collegiate Challenge Series…

Customized lessons for 310 students add up to a boggling bookkeeping job, but Project PLAN in Winona, Minnesota, ticks it off with dispatch. (Editor)

Six-day residential intensive language courses in German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, sponsored by the City Lit language department and Wansfell college, were extremely successful due to careful planning in site selection, various learning activities, and courses structure. (Author/BP)

A high school Business Enterprise Training Program allows students to participate as a management team in charge of a variety of classroom business enterprises. Teaching strategies, activities, and organization for the program's experiences in basic business principles and management techniques are discussed. (Author/MS)

This report deals with the function of a department of second language instruction at the University of Rhode Island, which could serve as a model for departments at other institutions. (CFM)

An exemplary career education program for gifted and talented high school students is described, focusing on the career guidance techniques employed. (Author)

Describes the use of Landsat maps in a study to determine the feasibility of supervising student teachers with group telephone conferencing. Project value was determined by cooperating teacher evaluations, student-teacher comments, and pupil achievement. (MA)

An art educator motivates his elementary students by developing their strong personal identification with each of 30 projects, introducing them to architecture. The author describes a few of these projects and how students benefit. (RK)

Michael McAndrew, director of educational services, Capital Cities Television Productions in Philadelphia, is interviewed about his development of the Television Reading Program, which employs television scripts to improve student reading. (RK)

An abstract "hand" sculpture is a good beginning project to help children understand the meaning of space and form. Here some elementary students learn what sculpture is and ways that it can be done. (Author/RK)

A week long residential camp was held for handicapped children of Whatcom County, Washington. (GW)

The goals of a visitation program at a college or university should be to place prospects and their parents in contact with a variety of faculty and students. Faculty members, talking about their programs, and undergraduates, sharing their own experiences, are the institution's best recruiters. (MLW)