The Potentially Able Learner's Program in Rockford, Illinois, is a centralized gifted program for students (K-6). The program features self-contained grade-level groupings and emphasis on parent involvement. Evaluation is gathered through achievement testing, parent questionnaires, and student self-report. (CL)

The Magnolia Speech School for the Deaf (Jackson, Mississippi) provides an intensive reading program for five preschool children. The program consists of four areas: the story reading session, primer reading, vocabulary development, and phonics. (SB)

Trainable mentally retarded students (15 to 18 years old) participated in a program of meal preparation instruction which featured establishing menus, determining their nutrition values, shopping, storing the groceries, and preparing the meals. (CL)

Describes rationale and framework for the psychology program at Loyola University, Chicago. The two major components of the curriculum are a core consisting of basic perspectives, phenomena and methods and a variety of special interest areas that students can pursue in depth. (Author/DB)

This article provides a concrete description of existing career education programs and proposals. (MM)

The authors analyze the individual elements of a curriculum at the Lexington School for the Deaf (Jackson Heights, New York) in terms of who is being taught, how the staff organizes its teaching, and what should be taught. (SB)

Eight states maintain Governors' Honors Programs for gifted and talented students. Programs in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia are briefly described in terms of content, location, and selection processes. The programs are seen as an important way to augment programing for gifted…

The author discusses the work of Britain's Assessment of Performance Unit, a national program of performance monitoring to identify the incidence of underachievement. (CL)

Describes the successful implementation of the Models at Prevention program in peer counseling in Colorado's Laredo Middle School, including the initial and ongoing training of peer counselors, and the range of tasks assigned to peer counselors. (PGD)

Describes a research sequence of three courses taught at the library school at Brigham Young intended to teach students to become good consumers of research literature and to carry out simple research projects. (FM)

Describes how a teacher can give demonstrations of additive color mixing with one slide projector. (CK)

The principal of a purpose-built tertiary college explains its rationale and the opportunities it offers to sixteen to nineteen year olds, whether full-time or part-time working students. (Editor)

The reorganization of the Developmental Centre program at the Lord Tennyson Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia is described. The component for autistic children is described in terms of the referral procedure, staffing and consultant services, organization, program development, integration, and parent involvement. (DB)

This article briefly describes the West Side Complex, one of the two community schools in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The facility contains a grammar school, a library branch, a theater, a music center, medical clinics, gymnasiums, a police community relations office, a preschool, and two senior citizen areas. (Author/SJL)

Describes four different and exemplary preschools: Small World Center for Creativity (Boise, Idaho); the Creative Play Center (Worthington, Ohio); Westmoreland Cooperative Preschool (University of Oregon, Eugene); and Montessori Gardens School (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina). Also gives tips on running a preschool. (SJL)