Describes a program in which parents were included in the selecting of teachers. Argues that the benefits of such a program outweigh the problems. (IRT)

Outlines the five items that one administrative team has stressed in promoting a workable, understandable, and realistic discipline program. The best move has been making administrators and counselors visible. (Author/IRT)

Describes a bilingual education program in Peru that attempted to introduce reading in the native language of that country along with instruction in Spanish. Traces the development and implementation of the language curriculum, sketches the problems that were faced, discusses the materials used, and presents an evaluation of the program. (FL)

Describes a program that uses Lazarus's factors that contribute to human growth and development as the basis for its program. The modalities covered are given the headings behavior, affect, sensation and imagery, cognition, interpersonal, and diet/physiology. (IRT)

Describes a program at Stone Middle School in Melbourne, Florida. (JM)

Analyzes reasons given for the failure of the competency-based teacher education program at Illinois State University and describes a successful program at San Diego State University. (IRT)

Outlines how the district consolidated the city's seven high schools into three complexes. Includes discussion of the assignment of students, staffing changes, and the public relations program that accompanied the change. (IRT)

Describes an alternative school program that keeps children in the school system when they have behavioral problems. The district reduced its suspensions from 878 in 1976-77 to three in 1977-78 and 10 in 1978-79. (Author/IRT)

The article describes the various programs for gifted students in Palo Alto, California, a city with an unusually high percentage of gifted children. Programs are described at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. (DLS)

There is an opportunity for men to give and receive counsel with other men with the men's consciousness-raising (CR) movement. This article describes a men's CR program that encourages men to explore ideas, feelings, and values in a noncompetitive and trusting atmosphere. Self-disclosure, competition, and affection are identified. (Author)

Describes a program in which adult students can earn a regular diploma from the local high school by passing competency examinations in basic skills and by earning credit for learning gained through life experience. (Author/IRT)

Describes the program of the Houston (Texas) High School for Health Professions, which combines traditional high school subjects with health-oriented subjects and with laboratory sessions in patient care and clinical and research areas at Baylor College of Medicine. (Author/IRT)

The Center provides access to infrequently used research materials in three interrelated ways: (1) it provides a deposit library for such materials from the collections of member libraries; (2) it acquires such materials at members' shared expense and for their common use; and (3) it provides rapid access to its collection materials. (Author/JD)

Describes the conditions that led to Florida's initiative in compensatory education, the legal basis of compensatory education in Florida, the care taken not to violate federal regulations, and the cost relationships between compensatory education programs and the basic program offerings of school districts. (Author/IRT)

The education of the children of service personnel gives rise to special problems, e.g., transiency. This article describes the work of Britain's Service Children's Education Authority (SCEA).