Human and material resources external and internal to adult education programs must be cultivated for program development. Methods include developing support of decision makers, being entrepreneurial, and demonstrating accountability. Issues include the need for flexible, responsive staff and structure, clearly defined policy, and flexible service…

Presents interview with David Jarmusz, a Chicago (Illinois) police officer who specializes in gang activity. Jarmusz describes the Chicago Police Department's gang units program and gang specialist detectives, discusses goals and objectives, activities of the program, and outcomes of the project. (NB)

Describes WILL (Women Involved in Living and Learning) Program, begun at Westhampton College of the University of Richmond in 1980 to provide intense experience for college women, focusing on career preparation and life after graduation. WILL Program in 1990 is described to illustrate shift of focus to reflect the evolution in thinking about women…

Voices of Pioneers section features Margaret Harrison of United Kingdom who founded HOME-START movement in Leicester, England, in 1973. Notes that HOME-START now has 150 programs throughout United Kingdom and in other countries and that program trains volunteers to offer support, friendship, and practical help to young families under stress in…

Describes the development and evaluation of an eight-hour educational program designed to prepare staff nurses to perform in a new role, the unit-based acute confusion Resource Nurse (ACRN). Tests showed that knowledge and confidence significantly increased for participants as a result of their participation in the educational program. (Author/GCP)

Presents marketing guru Guy Kawasaki's seven rules for revolutionaries, and examples of alumni relations innovators who are implementing change with cutting-edge programs, services, and business practices. Rules include: "jump curves" (look for new paths); "break down barriers" (challenge roadblocks of ignorance and inertia);…

Identifies typology of substance users from a sample of 1,580 St. Louis arrestees surveyed through the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program. Analyses illustrated that drug-using classifications differ between criminal and non-criminal populations, but that arrestee populations vary interjurisdictionally. Assesses implications for local and…

Needs assessment survey of 114 junior high school students in Louisiana identified 4-H program topics of interests: unemployment, dating, fashion, and computers. 4-H members also identified interest in programs on teen pregnancy, suicide, and drugs; nonmembers in fitness, jobs, and health. (SK)

A multidisciplinary team of health practitioners developed knowledge of health promotion and attempted to integrate that knowledge into practice. Five major themes emerged: definition of health promotion, incongruity between espoused and practiced values, reflective practice, from disease care to health promotion, and socioenvironmental…

Maps out two simultaneous and mutually reinforcing phenomena: (1) the material conditions that have given rise to hierarchically arranged writing programs; and (2) the attendant cultural values that have made possible the feminization as well as the racialization of composition teaching. Argues that writing programs have emerged by way of…

Discusses the development by the Correctional Education Association of a model evaluation instrument to ensure that any national scale evaluation results are credible to withstand scholarly scrutiny. An appendix summarizes 19 recidivism studies. (JOW)

Applies to adult education decision making Bolman and Deal's four frames for understanding organizations: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. Suggests that a different frame for adult programs and services is needed to align with the frames of potential participants. (SK)

Article discusses the After-School Girl's Leadership Program in Seattle designed to foster positive development in girls. Their ideas and concerns are at the center of the curriculum, and they are able to experience the power of positive peer support. The program empowers them to address the environmental concerns that impede development.…

After fire and smoke damaged an upstate New York school's cafeteria, kitchen, and administrative offices, the district superintendent contacted a professional construction-management firm to begin restoration and reopen the school within days. Safety and sensitivity to building occupants' needs were paramount. (MLH)

Offers a critical commentary on theory-based evaluation, stressing its utility as a method of program planning and as an adjunct to experiments but rejecting it as an alternative to experiments. Cites seven reasons for doubting that theory-based evaluations can provide the valid conclusions about a program's causal effects that proponents have…