For further information on this environmental technology program, contact Dean Peter Mergenovich, Dean of Continuing Education at Forest Park Community College, 5600 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63110. (MU)

The article describes an experimental approach to the use of video tape, making it a prescreening tool for employers who don't visit the campus. (Author)

Describes an experimental early elementary education program. (Author)

Describes three prize-winning alternatives to traditional schools developed out of the USOE's experimental schools program. (JF)

Warns that the leverage made possible through widespread use of vouchers and performance contracting can make education a less certain product that will have exercised its influence beyond the point of recall for a generation of students. (JF)

Recommendations are made for a new college curriculum based on smaller instructional units, and the results of a media-centered experiment are set forth. (MF)

Describes the "Commando Academy," a Milwaukee (Wisconsin) alternative school program for teenage parolees and other disaffected young people. (JG)

Describes a system whereby the district's students and parents can telephone a number and ask to hear tape recorded messages on topics of interest. (IRT)

Describes the most easily achieved and most difficult to achieve aspects of the model, along with what was possible only for some schools, and what was most disillusioning to the leaders. (IRT)

Increasingly, educational reform is linked to the concept of professional learning communities (PLCs). Definitions of PLCs vary, but generally the concept refers to a group of educators who "continuously seek and share learning, and act on their learning" (Hord 1997, 6). Stoll and her colleagues, concluding their review of the current state of…

This article examines the employment and child care responses of families participating in 10 experimental welfare reform programs conducted in the United States between 1989 and 2002. For the programs analyzed, child care use increases by about the same amount as the increase in employment. Most of the increased child care comprises informal care…