While the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 included many provision of concern to child advocates, the Act also gave states increased flexibility to design welfare programs in ways that support children, or that ameliorate some of the harshest provisions of the Act. This issue brief describes innovative…

Many colleges and universities use a mathematics placement process to guide students to the appropriate entry-level mathematics course. The mathematics placement process presented here was developed over a four year period to make placement recommendations to Calculus I, Precalculus, and College Algebra. Placement recommendations are based on the…

You have researched and can demonstrate a real need for the program you have conceptualized. You have an idea of what you want the project or program to look like and you believe that the proposal will show that by investing in this type of work you can achieve some very real and tangible results. There are many resources available that can help…

Reports on a program which began in Coventry, England and is unique in its use of the actor-teacher--a person who is trained or experienced in both theatre and education--to stimulate classroom interest in drama. (RB)

Houston's effort to provide appropriate alternatives within a traditional framework is described. (Author/KM)

How a "no excuse necessary" policy has sharply cut absenteeism in a Michigan high school. (Author)

Project Re-ED, initiated in Nashville, Tennessee, is a well-established, carefully tested model for intervening in the lives of children whose development has been interrupted by serious learning and behavior problems. Involves an eclectic, pragmatic approach combining features of therapy and behavior modification and centering on the social…

After 16 years of a sex education program at Clarke School (Northampton, Massachusetts) the leaders are continuing to make every effort to prepare the hearing impaired boys and girls, ages 10 to 17 years, to adjust positively to the constantly changing society in which they will live. (Author)

Examined are causes of negative self concept in many gifted children, programs for disadvantaged gifted children, and the trend toward more research- for the gifted. (MC)

The president of Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C., describes the program at the only fully accredited liberal arts college for the deaf in the U.S. (Author/DN)

Describes the Sumner Mobile Preschool program designed to help parents recognize the potential learning possibilities of a home-based pre-school program. Small groups of seven to ten children attend class in one of seven neighborhood homes in which the preschool meets. (CS)