This book is a year-long program of daily exercises in problem solving for 2nd and 3rd grade students that presents 144 lessons, each with seven problems. The problems cover number sense, computation, measurements, geometry, problem solving, and patterns. The material is presented in a sequential fashion with concepts repeated and expanded, and…

This book shares the lessons learned by educators as they developed the League of Schools, a democratic, schoolwide collaboration that focuses on instructional and curricular renewal. This process depends on three steps: a covenant of teaching and learning, shared governance, and action research. Chapter 1 explains the League's framework and…

Microcomputers can contribute to a handicapped child's communication, control of the environment, education, and recreation. Descriptions are given of projects to adapt the technology to serve students with difficulties in hearing, speech and language, learning and cognitive skills, and movement and neurological development. (CL)

Some off-campus activities for alumni are outlined including: a bluegrass music performance for Carleton College alumni, a week-long "alumni summer college" offered by Lehigh University, and a week-long boat trip down the Colorado River for Arizona State University groups. (MLW)

In Anchorage, Alaska, resource teachers in the Classroom Music Program trained 450 elementary teachers to handle music in their own classrooms by means of packet-type lesson formats, a Music Jamboree cycle, and an assembly that reinforces previous teaching. (AM)

Describes development and implementation of Certificate in Translation sequence for second language students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (BK)

Discusses the job market for technical communication graduates and the process for setting up a college degree program in technical communication. (AEA)

Describes the Circulation Management Project being developed by the Empire State College of the State University of New York--a program designed to upgrade the newspaper circulation department. (HOD)

The authors describe a process, a social integration program, for promoting social development of autistic children which brings normal peers (second and third graders) to the special setting. Steps for planning the play session are given and guidelines for play session structure are offered. (SBH)

Describes some innovative public relations practices developed by Pennsylvania elementary schools. (SJL)

The article describes the Fairview/Eastview Gifted Biophysical Environmental Studies Program, an outdoor education program for third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade gifted students. (SBH)

Explains how school systems can qualify for assistance under the National Energy Policy Conservation Act, which provides federal funds to those districts and institutions (schools and hospitals) that are willing to take energy conservation measures. (Author/IRT)

Explains search commands for SERIDU, an online bibliographic search system developed at Brussels Free University. These commands and output formats are compared with Euronet commands (from which they were derived), with existing INFODOC storage system commands, and with the planned BIDULE system commands. An evaluation of SERIDU is included. (SW)

The program was shown to be effective in increasing students' knowledge about epilepsy and fostering positive attitudes about those with epilepsy. (DLS)

A new approach to follow-up support, the "SOS" tapes were given to 57 first-year learning disabilities teachers with the instruction to record problems and wait for responses. (PHR)