Includes a list of national agencies supporting drug education, results of a survey dealing with drug education for teachers, discussion of the Drug Abuse Education Act of 1970, and a State-by-State survey of drug education programs. (LR)

Collected information on the quality of needs assessments of the elderly from three sources. Found that the overall quality of the majority of needs assessments was so low as to provide little meaningful input to the planning process. Recommends that states focus on the improvement of needs assessment efforts. (Author)

Educational and supportives services are made available to migrant children through the efforts of Colorado's Recruitment and Identification of Migrant Children Project. (NQ)

In this speculative article, Robert R. Rentz predicts that state educational assessment programs will continue to be fertile ground for measurement innovations, both technological and otherwise, in the areas of test content, development, administration and the reporting of test results. (AEF)

Presents the legislative action program of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), including general political objectives and the organization's stance on specific bills in the New Jersey legislature. A summary of national legislative goals and political action information for NJEA members is also provided. (SJL)

The authors suggest that the Rules and Regulations of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) for the development and implementation of child identification systems present severe policy problems for state planners. (Author/CL)

A state of the art survey indicated that all but five states had gifted/talented programs, the majority had a specific person responsible for gifted/talented education programs, and 24 states increased budgets while six cut back in their gifted/talented programs from 1976-1977 to 1978-1979 school years. (CL)

Moderately strong associations have been described for relationships between selected state policies for elders and for children. Patterns of partial interdependence have emerged. Knowing the level of state policy outputs for children permits one to predict about one-half of the variability in levels of aging outputs. (Author)

Described are the career background and responsibilities of Bob Shephard, Associate Director of the National Sea Grant College program, Head of the Human Resources Division and Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations' Marine Advisory Service. (DS)

Individuals in prisons and correctional facilities have needs for constructive living that home economists can meet. This article explores the nature of correctional education, social education, vanguard programs, status of education in correctional institutions, the Florida International University Project, and the most prevalent needs of…

Presents an assessment of the implementation of the Career Education Incentive Act program. A major finding was that the goals of widespread career education implementation as a result of the Act were probably unattainable, given the low levels of funding provided to states during the first years of operation. (CT)

Describes the operation of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, which coordinates planning for educational computing in Minnesota and delivers certain computing services to the institutions that lack the means to provide these services on their own. (Author/IRT)

The Governor's School of North Carolina (West) offers a six-week summer program designed to develop creativity in gifted high school students. (SBH)