Describes and evaluates the ESEA Title I program in Granite City (Illinois) target area schools which provide preschool classes, remedial reading, and supportive health and counseling services. The programs are considered to be efficient. (DM)

Describes a Title I ESEA program for educationally deprived children in small town-rural areas in central Illinois. Program involves motor and perceptual development, improvement of self concept, attendance, and health. (DM)

Briefly presents definitions of mental health offered by authorities, and concept offered by committee of American School Health Association. Discusses establishment and evaluation of teaching unit. Class changes were somewhat positive, as were comments by parents. (CJ)

A program using patient instructors programmed with a history of hypertension, chronic pulmonary disease, or congestive heart failure to teach and evaluate pharmacy students' interviewing skills is described. Content areas included drug therapy, adverse reactions, drug interactions, etc. (Author/MSE)

Describes development, objectives, program content, and evaluation of a model for training New Hampshire family day care providers. (MP)

Emphasizes preservice education and training of older persons for work with their peers. Describes three training programs with older participants: the Senior Companion Program, the Health and Fitness Program, and the Closing the Generation Gap Project. (RC)

Two workshops on college English curriculum and instruction, held in England in 1980 and 1981, explored the idea that although literary and associated theory have been advancing recently, in the university the syllabus, teaching methods, method of analysis, modes of written work, and place of creative writing have remained largely unchanged. (MSE)

Fault Tree Analysis, a systems safety engineering technology used to analyze organizational systems, is described. Explains the use of logic gates to represent the relationship between failure events, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, and effective use of Fault Tree Analysis. (CT)

The Child and Family Justice Project, designed to help communities improve the quality of life for their children and families, is described in terms of its development, evaluation, and its long range effects. (Author/MP)

Describes the College of the Living, a program of continuing education for the disabled at Colorado State University: its history, program design, philosophy, needs assessment of the target population, objectives, implementation, and program evaluation. (CT)

Outlines some of the achievements of the Summer Program for Economically Disadvantaged Youth (SPEDY) during the summer of 1978. Four programs in Virginia, Minnesota, Texas, and Washington are examined not because they are exemplary but because they illustrate what is happening in some of the better youth employment programs around the country. (CT)

This article describes the transition program at Goodyear Junior High in Akron, Ohio. Beginning in the spring, it helps reduce the adjustment anxiety of sixth graders and their parents by familiarizing them with the school and preparing them for the junior high school experience. Some evaluative feedback is cited. (SJL)