This guide was developed to provide educators with information about nationally available programs for the classroom that promote social and emotional learning (SEL). It details the costs, the grades covered, evidence base, which most effectively teach core social and emotional skills, and which provide high-quality staff development and support.…

This report describes practical policy and program development processes and promising program models for preventing and treating female delinquency. The report also provides a profile of female juvenile offenders, the problems they present, their needs, and the need to address them. More girls are entering the juvenile justice system, and it…

This bulletin explores the proximal risk factors for juvenile offending, reviews the early developmental precursors to violent offending, and summarizes approaches to prevention. It also discusses components of intervention programs, limitations of single-focus prevention, examples of multi systemic interventions, and limitations of prevention…

This article, the second in a continuing series highlighting exemplary information technology (IT) practices, recounts an interview with the project manager of New York State's Child Nutrition Management System (CNMS). CNMS is a Web-based system for claim processing and program management for the Child Nutrition Program administered by the New…

Discusses two-year experience of conducting an interdisciplinary undergraduate program which integrates liberal arts into technical curricula and emphasize non-conventional learning processes and evaluation. The purpose is to prepare students with abilities to develop technology needed by society and to minimize its side effects harmful to the…

Results of a three-year study on a modern, updated Classics studies program implemented by the Classics faculty at Texas Tech University. (RL)

Article discusses some of the previous experiments in elementary typewriting, the background of the Hawaii English Program, particularly the Language Skills segment, and the Primary Typewriting Program--its rationale, materials and equipment, results and limitations. (Author/CB)

Presents an overview of the influence of British practices upon contemporary American education, and speculates upon future directions. (DM)

A student work program at Adrian College in their Office of Publications and Information is described. Suggestions for generating quality performance from student staff include: seek talent, cover the basics, generate espirit de corps, provide a work space, establish a communication system, and be dependable and consistent. (MLW)

Describes the evolution, development, and characteristics of a developmental reading program at a private four-year college. Discusses student placement, class structuring, tutoring, and program rationale. (FL)