Describes the development and benefits of an inservice program to improve poetry teaching in middle school and high school English classes. (EL)

Reviews one school district's process for helping kindergarten teachers integrate formal reading instruction into their classrooms. (FL)

A writing assistance program at North Carolina State University is designed to help students gain the communication skills they need as professional engineers. The program involves teaching, tutoring, advisory services, and workshops on special topics of wide interest. Each of these program areas is discussed. (JN)

The governor of South Carolina provides information about that state's Education Improvement Act of l984 and explains how it brought about educational reform. (FL)

Describes a cooperative journalism education program that intersperses work with time on campus in (1) a parallel co-op, in which students work part-time and attend classes part-time;or (2) an alternative co-op, in which students work off-campus one semester and return to classes the next semester. (HTH)

Describes an inservice institute that familiarized teachers with the pressures that lead students to commit suicide and a program for troubled students. (FL)

Describes the development and operation of the MIT Technical Writing Cooperative, a means of writing across the curriculum that has been used for more than 25 years. (FL)

Reports the result of a program using a cable television channel to give mass communications students experience in managing budgets, people, and programing. Includes recommendations for others considering such a program. (PD)

Describes the development and implementation of an inservice program in reading instruction for practicing secondary school teachers. (HOD)

Covers the activities of the Social Impact Junto at the National Adult Education Conference (November 1984), which considered several questions related to (1) adult education's contributions to societal change, (2) social implications of its content, (3) investigating and resolving problems of mutual concern, and (4) the public's apathy toward a…

Outlines how the Talk Workshop Group of England, a support group model, was transplanted to inservice workshops conducted by Bay Area Writing Project personnel. (HTH)

Describes a structured set of procedures for critical script appraisal of nontheatrical scripts by carefully selected evaluators. An overview of the procedure, script reviewer qualities, the questionnaire's structure and objectives, and discussion of a sequence-by-sequence evaluation, script annotations, reviewer comments, and report preparation…

Describes how prominent teachers and community members were invited to read and speak on books related to their subject of interest during school lunch breaks and records the success of the program. (CRH)

Describes the developmental reading program at a Midwestern university which has as its major objectives the improvement of vocabulary, reading comprehension, and reading rates. (FL)

A 15-year veteran professor of education describes the year he spent returning to the principalship and what it taught him about the relevance and usefulness of administrator training programs. (JM)