The Community Cadre Network in Virginia is a local support network for helping individuals with spinal cord injuries make the transition from an institutional setting to home and community life. Cadre members are people who have been through the experience of traumatic injury, rehabilitation, and return home. (SEW)

Suggestions are given in three development areas: training new employees (functions and related areas to cover); references for new staff (recommended reading, information clearinghouses, and publications to stay informed); and staff management (characteristics of successful fund-raisers and development offices, and performance evaluation). (MSE)

The ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education (SMEAC) screens, abstracts, and indexes a variety of published and unpublished documents in science education. Suggestions for tapping the resources of the ERIC system are provided: computer searches, manual searches, and use of ERIC fact sheets and other materials.…

An attitudinal survey of 28 Minnesota legislative and interest-group policy makers in education examined educational groups' fragmentation, linkages, lobbying power, legislators' information resources, and initiation and accommodation between legislators and interest groups. Among the conclusions is that educational lobbyists' power in the…

Problems of dealing with ESL students who are functionally, completely, or semi-literate, or who are not familiar with the Roman alphabet, are outlined, and some solutions to material development and class activities are proposed. Examples and a list of resources are included. (MSE)

Explores the availability, range, and potential usefulness of pre-1925 published Canadian federal and provincial government sources for studying conditions and behavior over long periods of time. Publications reviewed include parliamentary publications, Royal Commission reports, and annual reports by agencies, departments, and committees to…

The quantity, quality, and patterns of direct peer communication in a county's physician population are assessed. All the physicians within the selected county were surveyed and the data reveal that colleague interaction occurs on a regular and frequent basis. The implications of this data for continuing medical education are discussed.…

If they are open to the experience, cooperating teachers can learn a great deal about different teaching methods from their student teachers and from the college supervisor working in their school. (SJL)

This paper proposes using nontest indicators, along with academic tests, to assess school effects on youth development. Relationships between indicators and tests are explored and examples presented of nontest indicators of intellectual development, career development, and health and personal safety. Data sources for indicators are…

Discusses the role of regional educational research organizations, describes three regional organizations in terms of member states, research activities, and publications, and provides names and addresses for each as well as for another proposed regional education research center. (CHC)

Ten methods of finding information are rated, based on a survey of professional practitioners. Three networks linkage systems, state-of-the-art syntheses, and a successful medical consultation (by telephone) service are described. (Available from: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94194, single issue, $6.95.) (GDC)

Provides a comprehensive list of bilingual centers across the country that offer aid in curriculum development, materials selection, teacher training, assessment and dissemination, and antidiscrimination guidelines for linguistic minorities. (Editor)

Examines the effects of media coverage of biomedical innovations, such as industrial recombinant DNA, on public opinion and public awareness of scientific events. (JMF)

Twenty sources of information and research related to student financial aid and/or postsecondary financing issues are listed. Included are periodicals, publications, agencies and institutions, and federal and private agencies that publish technical and statistical data. (JMD)

Explores the rationale for the creation of the rumor control center and identifies the few valuable models found in the literature. Examines the usefulness of the center as an additional channel of communication and considers the desirability of using such a mechanism. Suggests an approach to teaching rumor control. (JMF)