The Exemplary Project in Career Education was designed to stimulate the development of specific activities and programs in career education which would assist students in developing self-concepts and good attitudes while expanding career knowledge and job skills in South Carolina school districts. An administrative staff from the Region Five…

Developed through a study of concepts and subconcepts included in a number of instructional materials and evaluated by state education agency personnel and homemaking teachers, this framework is designed to aid the teacher in planning local homemaking programs and in developing local curriculum guides. Vocational home economics in Texas consists…

Training needs analysis, training program planning, pilot sessions and their evaluation, and follow through sessions on a continuing basis are examined, using an approach applicable to an outside or inside trainer. (LH)

Describes a successful retirement preparation program developed by the University of Wisconsin to help acquaint staff members 55 and over with advantages and pitfalls of retirement. Content of the six 2-hour sessions included financial planning, physical and mental health, housing and living arrangements, leisure time activities and the meaning of…

When youngsters in a Massachusetts Upward Bound program became disciplinary problems instead of learners, it appeared that the program more than the youngsters needed correcting. (Editor)

The author examines the physician's responsibility for lifelong learning, adult learning projects, the number of learning projects adults undertake in a year and time spent on these projects, content of these projects, motivation for learning projects, credit as a motivator, learning resources, how learning projects are planned, and status and…

Notes the rising number of latchkey children and describes several after-school programs designed to meet their special needs. (FL)

Describes the development and benefits of an inservice program to improve poetry teaching in middle school and high school English classes. (EL)

Describes a study conducted to determine how many state governments had established employee assistance programs (EAPs). Results concerned how state EAPs are organized, services provided, cost of programs, what dollars or productive benefits were calculated, and what problems have been encountered by state EAPs. (CT)

Reviews one school district's process for helping kindergarten teachers integrate formal reading instruction into their classrooms. (FL)

Describes the development and operation of the MIT Technical Writing Cooperative, a means of writing across the curriculum that has been used for more than 25 years. (FL)

Describes the development and implementation of an inservice program in reading instruction for practicing secondary school teachers. (HOD)

"Restitution" refers to payment of money to victims of crime and other community organizations and community service. Unresolved issues have developed from these preliminary efforts to integrate it into correctional programs. A useful classification scheme reflecting the different types of restitution must be developed, and program…

Quality afterschool programs offer participants productive ways to spend the crucial afterschool hours--whether these hours are between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on school days, during weekends, or before school--that otherwise might be spent in unsupervised and potentially harmful activities. Also, afterschool programs help provide additional support to…