Describes an "Aggressive Adoption" program designed to combat the problem of foster care "drift" by expanding the availability of adoption resources for children in the care of a small, public child welfare agency. (RH)

Under a "Youth Grant in the Hunamities" from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ten culturally different gifted high school students studied the lives of American heroes whose actions provoked controversies in the period from 1870-1950. (SBH)

A student tutoring program in which nonhandicapped secondary students worked with their handicapped peers is described as a successful experiment in reverse mainstreaming. (CL)

Ten games and activities designed to teach basic vocabulary to primary grade children are described. Basic Bingo, Word Hunt, Categories, and Scrabble are among the activities presented. (CL)

A model is presented to facilitate the movement of children from a residential center to community schools. The purpose of the model is explained to break the reintegration process into incremental steps which are expected to make the child's adjustment to a new school situation easier and more successful. (Author)

Describes the growth of service through program improvement and technical development at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) of the Library of Congress. (MBR)

Details are given for the use of the mixed effects multivariate analysis of variance table provided by the BMD12V computer program to compute raw generalized variances and hence the U and F statistics for the mixed effects model. (Author/JKS)

The process of setting up a Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program in a local elementary school is described. (DS)

Describes a project--"Curriculum: School Administration"--developed to fill the need for formal preparation of supervisory and school-level administrators. A prognosis for future developments is given along with the caution that it is too early to predict how training programs might become institutionalized. (Author/IRT)

A new approach to follow-up support, the "SOS" tapes were given to 57 first-year learning disabilities teachers with the instruction to record problems and wait for responses. (PHR)

The author describes a program where students suspended from secondary schools can "cool off" before returning to the ordinary classroom. Sections address the background of the Parkhead Centre approach, program goals, indoor and outdoor activities, the admission system, and students' return to school. (SBH)

Outlines the history, form of membership, legal incorporation, and technical aspects of the College Libraries Activity Network of New South Wales (CLANN) and describes Insearch DIAL (Division of Library and Information) Services and its place in the information services network. (RAO)

Discusses how oral history can motivate elementary students in the social studies. Suggests oral history learning activities and procedures to help students recreate events from the past. (CK)

Describes how some of the problems of evaluating noncollegiate educational programs have been circumvented by an Illinois evaluation team (Project for the Evaluation of Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction). (JH)

Describes programs offered or sponsored by national trade associations in the finance industry. (IRT)