The procedures of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry's Office of External Educational Programs are reviewed to show how quality assurance techniques can be categorized. The format was designed to evaluate quality assurance procedures for both the educational and service aspects of eye care. (MLW)

Presents a career education project offering a real-world experience to sixth-grade students in a shopping mall. Describes development and implementation of the project which provided students with a one-time experience as quasi-store-employees. Discusses follow-up activities and feedback received from children and parents. (RC)

The principal of Grafflin Elementary School describes how staff, parents, and students worked together to build a school greenhouse. He explains how PTA cooperation was secured, money was raised, construction accomplished, and how the facility is used by each grade. Also provided are classroom gardening tips and a booklist. (SJL)

This description of the University College at Buckingham begins by detailing the controversy aroused by its inception as an institution outside the state system of higher education in Britain. It goes on to explain the college's developmental problems and current status in accreditation, staffing, curriculum, and student recruitment. (SJL)

A program in Illinois designed to combine a professional growth experience for teachers with a learning experience for children in a new type of summer school is described. (MP)

Focusing on a high school agricultural cooperative education program, the author presents guidelines for supervisory visits and for the selection of good training stations. The benefits of cooperative programs to the student, community, school, and employer are listed. (LRA)

To create a feeling of school unity and to reinforce the concept of human interdependence, the teachers of Friends' Central School planned Project Terra, a six-week school-wide activity. With the school viewed as a mythical planet, classes designed their own cultures and interacted as nations. (SJL)

Discusses Florida's renewed interest in attracting and serving industry through the Industry Services Leadership Development Program to train school district and community college personnel to deliver industry services. Describes training workshops using self-paced models that have been conducted to launch the program through a multi-agency…

Matching adult desires for further education with available educational opportunities requires brokering services in the community. The development of the Regional Learning Service of Central New York in Syracuse, which has served as a prototype for the development of educational brokering services, is examined. (Author/JMD)

Shows how a structured tutoring program helped increase both student and tutor reading scores. (JT)

An overview is presented of the development of teacher centers and issues and problems that will face the centers in the future are discussed. (JD)

A health workshop for elementary and secondary school teachers, designed to help a South Carolina health department and district schools cope with health personnel shortages, is described. (JMF)

The University of Toledo's Adult Liberal Studies program is described. Some steps to consider before implementing a new program include clearly establishing a need for the program, determining where power lies, formulating objectives, and making students aware of the experimental nature of the program. (MLW)

Research on cross-cultural learning helps to explain some of the variables with which program planners and evaluators must work to make attitudinal and adjustment elements of cross-cultural experiential learning successful. Clear delineation of program objectives (affective, cognitive, behavioral) and on-site contact persons are recommended. (MSE)

Career opportunities for educators are growing in human resource development departments of business and industry. These careers call on the competencies of teachers in their roles as human service specialists and instructional systems designers. A program created to prepare students for such careers at Northeastern Illinois University is…