A breastfeeding education program for low income women with a grade/high school education was developed. Reported are the effects of the program on the knowledge, attitudes, and infant feeding practices of a sample of pregnant women (N=44). Program consisted of five pamphlets mailed to subjects' homes over a five-week period. (JN)

Describes the history, philosophy, organization, referral process, and evaluation of ten secondary school programs that offered inschool alternatives to suspension. Suggests that program effectiveness was partly determined by: (1) administrators' acceptance of the program; (2) efficiency of the referral process; (3) program linkages with other…

Discusses the School Improvement Project of the New York City public schools. Lists five factors identified by the Project as determinants of student academic success and outlines the job responsibilities of the school Project liaison person. (FL)

An earlier article (not included in this journal) described the how's and why's of preselection of interviewees at Penn State. In this article, the authors discuss their observations when preselection was used as an integral part of the on-campus interviewing. (Author)

Describes a program intended to improve the school attendance of truant students, called the Mentoring and Tutoring Help (MATH) program. Discusses the importance of mentors and their roles in the MATH program, and presents the 18 most critical organizational steps for truancy intervention in the program. (SR)

Describes the reading program at Ganado Primary School (selected as exemplary at the 1993 annual International Reading Association convention), part of a schoolwide literate environment that encourages children to become self-actualizing and self-assured learners. (SR)

Describes an innovative family literacy program, in which adults come to school for workshops in children's literature and reading comprehension. Discusses its importance to parents, teachers, and students; the role of staff; operation and management; and the evidence of the success of the project. (PRA)

Describes several types of literature-based language arts programs, and addresses major issues related to implementing such programs. Specifies the most significant characteristics of successful programs: those related to the classroom and the school, those related to the teacher and parent/caregiver, and those within the learner. Presents some…

Suggests that not everything in education has to be evaluated in terms of cognitive outcome measures. Describes a computer-mediated communication project that involved sixth-grade students in a private school in Montreal and slightly older students in a mainly Inuit town in the far northern part of Quebec. Discusses the actual benefits of the…

Minnie Howard School, just outside Washington, D.C., caters exclusively to 14-year olds. Started seven years ago to relieve enrollment pressures, the school protects its 747 9th graders from typical high-school pressures and has reduced suspension and truancy, enrolled more kids in honors classes, and enticed privately educated students back to…

Reports a five-year longitudinal study of suicidal behavior of students in southern Florida. Describes a district-wide suicide prevention program and offers statistical data organized into annual, monthly, grade-level, and school-level classification of the degree and direction of self-destructive behavior among youth. Program effectiveness is…

For the past 2 school years, the Cypress-Fairbanks (Texas) Independent School District has used its district website as an integral part of an interactive process for establishing school attendance boundaries. A comparison with conventional methods shows that the new procedure was a highly effective avenue for communicating information and…

Contains articles describing and evaluating the Interdisciplinary Generalist Curriculum (IGC) Project, a curriculum for the first two years of medical school designed to encourage more graduates to enter generalist fields. Articles are grouped in sections: "What Was the ICG Project?"; "What Can Others Learn from the IGC…

In 1999, the De Kalb (Georgia) Truancy School was created, with cooperation from the county board of education, the superintendent, and the county juvenile court. The school gives chronically truant students an educational setting focused on their individual circumstances and needs. Average daily attendance for 51 students is 97 percent. (MLH)