Written for individuals and/or groups, this manual provides a step-by-step guide to the implementation of day care during special events such as fund raisers and workshops. The introduction includes information on staff, site, and insurance requirements. Next, instruction is provided on the preparation of business forms, meeting the unique needs…

The guidelines discuss ways to organize effective Community Advisory Committees (CACs) as required by California special education legislation. The CAC, it is explained, is composed of parents, handicapped pupils or adults, professionals, and interested citizens. Six functions are outlined, and potential effects on the district and the…

A program designed to serve culturally different gifted elementary students in the Omaha (Nebraska) Public Schools is described. Following a brief rationale, information on the program's identification procedures lists 12 typical characteristics of culturally diverse gifted students. Possible program approaches are delineated, including (1)…

Traced is the development of the Carnegie-NEA (National Education Association) Project for the Academically Talented Student. (SB)

Surveyed were 173 attendants in residential institutions for mentally retarded persons to determine their ability to plan an attendant-training program. (Author/CL)

The authors suggest the importance of systematic planning of the antecedent event in speech and language therapy with children. (Author)

Career exploration is seen as taking an increasingly important part in career education programs, with grades 6 through 10 benefitting from separate or infused courses. Ten basic requirements and twelve objectives regarding career exploration programs are listed. The article is the first in a series of four. (LH)

Article considered the questions of priority and goals in planning a social studies curriculum. (Author/RK)

This article defended the position that schools represented bureaucratic organizations and described within them the teacher's role, defined the term inquiry, spelled out the implications and limitations which the bureaucracy placed on teacher-inquirers and dealt with a rationale for inquiry within these limits. (Author/RK)

The authors have presented a general framework for project proposal assessment which will be of practical use to proposal writers and reviewers. Each of the four main components (plan of action, resources, implementation power, and potential contribution) is assessed separately and given a weighted score. (Author/EA)

A discussion of rationale and design of a laboratory for students of social work for which the goal is to describe a training process that may be a beginning of a total program of social work education. (Author)

A look at the short-wave broadcasting that preceded the creation of the Voice of America. (Author)