Describes a new partnership for principal leadership preparation between the University of Virginia and three school districts in the metropolitan area of Richmond, Virginia. (EV)

Explores some of the tenets that lead to the success and demise of school-university partnerships. Also describes a collaborative process by a university department of educational leadership, a regional consortium, and three school systems to offer a principal preparation program. (EV)

The innovative program enables students to enroll, for additional academic credit, in regular disciplinary courses which have supplementary readings and class meetings in a foreign language. Currently 25 professors are experimenting with the special courses and 45 students are enrolled in the foreign language tracks of 4 courses. (DB)

Describes how responsible student reporters can publish potentially controversial articles through the Youth News Service (YNS), a nonprofit news cooperative of member high school papers across the United States and Canada. Delineates how the YNS system operates. (KEH)

Describes the evolution of a publication of student writing from a one-time publication for a statewide writing event to a bona fide quarterly high school writing periodical. Notes that the published writing comes from actual classroom writing assignments from a variety of content areas. (RS)

Describes an experimental Young Author's conference for secondary school students. Notes that bringing together young writers and professional authors provides incentive for writing, as well as an authentic audience and purpose. (RS)

Spurred by soaring garbage-disposal costs and the closings of local landfills, colleges and universities are organizing campus wide recycling programs. The Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges will soon be adding the subject to its computerized list of information available to member colleges. (MLW)

Describes the Teen Pregnancy Project, which began in Savannah, Georgia, in 1981 as an effort to reduce mortality rates of at-risk infants, and has grown into a multiservice program with many approaches. Stresses the need for a home visitation initiative to reach clients. (SKC)

Explores some of the underlying causes of violence among youth; examines approaches to solving the problem; and looks at some specific programs for eliminating violence. (SKC)

Describes the Host Homes and Youth Center run by the Community Advocacy Council in Carrollton, Texas. The homes serve as places where troubled youth can go when there is trouble in their homes. The center provides counseling to both young people and their families. Families volunteer to serve as hosts. (SKC)

Discusses Boston's Historic Burying Ground Initiative, which was undertaken from a concern for public education. The public-private partnership is expected to take 10 years and six million dollars to restore the final resting places of figures such as Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and the Mather family of Puritan ministers. (GEA)

Describes a study of the effects of the Good Start program, which provides home-based intervention to families at risk of child maltreatment. Finds that families appear to improve over the course of treatment. Notes signs that indicate which families are most likely to improve. (SAK)

Describes a service learning course for which students participated in a seminar on literacy and an after-school tutoring program for children. Shows how undergraduate representations of literacy share common features with conversations among well-known writers (such as Walter Ong and David Olson) and also implicitly critique them. (TB)

Presents a framework for developing technology-mediated interinstitutional relationships for collaborative telelearning. Uses experiences of interinstitutional relationships to illustrate how the framework can be used to both guide the design of new and the assessment of existing relationships. Discusses costs and benefits of interinstitutional…

An Italian working for Outward Bound in Great Britain describes his exploration of an Outward Bound center in southern France, focusing on the residential facilities, program philosophy, French emphasis on psychology, range of available outdoor activities, and general program design. (SV)