Proposes School Year Abroad program, held in France and Spain, as a workable model for internationalizing American education at the secondary level. Program focuses on language and culture in literature, history, art, and language courses (taught in the foreign language), while offering quality education for college preparation as well. (JD)

Article describes some aspects of Washington, D.C. district schools outdoor projects. Outlines how these projects can be used as guides in maintaining an environmental education program for children everywhere. (Author/SMB)

In attempting to answer the question posed in the title, this author offers an overview of the goals of arts programs and some general guidelines for administrators to follow in evaluating those programs. (Author/JM)

Supported work is an employment program operated primarily by locally based nonprofit corporations that serve as the temporary employer for people who have traditionally had great difficulty in getting or holding a job. This article describes program operations, target groups, funding sources, and program impact research. (Author/SJL)

After briefly describing the Community Experiences for Career Education project, this paper discusses 11 evaluation strategies used with the project, assesses the strengths and limitations of each, shows some relationships among them, discusses ways of communicating evaluation findings, and suggests selection criteria to others planning multiple…

The Department of Energy has become involved in an attempt to meet the nation's future demand for trained energy technicians. It has cosponsored a survey of two-year colleges to determine the extent of energy technician training and has been involved with three workshops which addressed the need for training programs. (Author/JH)

A plan for a demonstration school is outlined. The design calls for a reallocation of capital and labor resulting in the heavy use of instructional technology and differentiated staffing. Comparisons with traditional schooling show the model to be potentially more cost-effective. (BD)

New Medicare regulations will soon mandate upgrading of laboratory technicians' knowledge and skills; a Colorado demonstration project responded successfully to the needs of small-town and rural technicians with a creative approach (now being bought and used by others) and circuit-flying instructors. (AJ)

Local interdisciplinary teams from universities in the District of Columbia, Cleveland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina participated in a national project that involved nursing, medicine, and health administration students in experiential learning and continuous improvement in health care settings. (SK)

This paper describes a pilot study in which continuous support through on-line consultation services provided to a principal, a regular teacher, a resource room teacher, and a teacher aide responsible for a profoundly deaf student in a rural Saskatchewan community. Evaluation concluded the program was successful. (DB)

Highlights the need to make the undergraduate physics laboratory more exciting and commensurate with the time assigned for it in the curriculum. Suggests establishing a model undergraduate physics laboratory at one place then reproducing it in five places for a massive reorientation program for teachers. Contains brief outlines of 30 experiments…

The paper offers a four-tiered model of public school inservice programs including: (1) generic training content; (2) parent and community training; (3) training in assessment, behavior management, and instructional strategies; and (4) training in a clinical supervision model. Inservice training formats and incentives are also addressed. (DB)

Computer-Intensive Algebra (CIA) focuses on the use of technology to help develop a rich understanding of fundamental algebraic concepts in real-world settings using computing tools for easy access to numerical, graphical, and symbolic representations of mathematical ideas. (MKR)

The Hawaii Algebra Learning Project (HALP) developed a curriculum that intertwines algebraic content, instructional methods, and assessment techniques with a problem-solving focus. (MKR)

Illustrates the multiple strategies used by second graders to solve a problem with three addends and how their teacher tries to map their thinking into the system of mathematical notation. Describes the American Federation of Teachers' Thinking Mathematics program that the teacher uses. (MKR)