Article described a new organization, Agency for Instructional Television, explored the quality and cost of its programs, and its organization, offering it as a model for the production of educational materials, a model that produced better materials at lower costs. (Editor/RK)

In May, 1974, Fresno County's Narcotic Abuse Treatment Program began a twenty-one-day outpatient methadone detoxification treatment modality. The results of the evaluation suggested an alternative treatment modality. The purpose of this paper is to examine this alternative treatment modality, its characteristics, its therapeutic outcomes and the…

This article briefly describes the Living With Death Program (a counseling service that helps terminally ill patients adjust), highlights some of the research findings of the program, and suggests an approach to counseling the terminally ill. (Author/HMV)

This paper describes a self help telephone service for women. The primary focus was the woman within the traditional nuclear family with peer counseling provided by volunteers. The service sees itself as a self help association of women banding together and pooling resources. It has been successful in reaching many women. (NG)

This paper describes a six-week series designed to address the issues of the women's movement, and the relevance it may be having on the personal lives and choices of women attending the course. Participants' responses indicate that it fulfilled important functions of information dissemination and self-exploration opportunities. (NG)

The Teaching-Learning Communities project has "apprenticed" hundreds of children to 125 "grandpersons" actively involved in 16 schools. (Author/IRT)

The reading instruction methods of Sylvia Ashton-Warner are succeeding in the classrooms of the nine teachers involved in the Vancouver Project. (IRT)

Describes design of a five-session workshop program developed by the Parma (Ohio) School System to introduce the metric system to laymen. (JG)

Describes the steps the Oklahoma City schools used in implementing Title IX. (IRT)

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Describes the Montgomery County Children Services (Ohio) program designed to teach racial awareness to staff. Discusses problems and outcomes. (Author/SB)

Describes a program devised to combine efforts of a child welfare agency and a public school system in controlling truancy. (Author/SB)

Following a review of the impact of Piaget's theories of cognitive development on science curriculum design, the evolution and development of the Science 5/13 Project, designed to extend the work of Nuffield Junior Science Project, is described. Evaluation studies assessing the aims and objectives of this project are detailed. (BT)