In 1997, the Community Alternative Placement Scheme (CAPS) was organized by NCH Action for Children (Scotland) to provide family placements for youth who would otherwise enter or remain in secure care. This evaluation study assessed the extent to which CAPS met its goals during the first 3 years of operation and examined the program's impact on…

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was designed in 1997 to support working families by providing affordable, quality health coverage for their children in an efficient, effective, and coordinated way. This report examines the progress made in implementing CHIP nationwide. Information sources included the following: (1) federal…

Selecting programs, textbooks, and curriculum materials is one of the most important decisions educators make. An Expert Panel on Mathematics and Science was established by the U.S. Department of Education to develop a high-quality, research-based process for selecting programs and to use that selecting process to identify exemplary and promising…

In Fall 1998, the Maryland State Department of Education and six local school systems started a pilot program to evaluate the impact of serving breakfast to students in the classroom as part of the school day. Students in participating schools have an opportunity to eat breakfast in their classroom each day at no charge, regardless of family…

This report discusses a wide array of violence prevention strategies used across the United States, ranging from school-based prevention to gun market interception. Relevant research, evaluation, and legislation are included to ground these programs and provide a context for their successful implementation. The first section of the report is an…

India's Unesco Associated Schools Program is presented as an instructive model for other countries. Its history from 1954 is developed in terms of organization; programs such as seminars, workshops, and camps; materials produced and dissiminated; progress in involving all levels of education; and problems, results and plans for intensification and…

Argues that the child guidance clinic, linchpin of the child guidance service, is an expensive, ineffective, and wrongly conceived institution. Does not discuss the needs of preschoolers, services by special classes, nor special schools for maladjusted pupils. (RJ)

Program descriptions and evaluations are provided for three major sets of sociology materials for secondary grades: Inquires in Sociology, Episodes in Social Inquiry, and Readings in Sociology. (SM)

Article shows how programmed learning can be a very effective method of training casual workers in a process industry. (Editor)