Recommends updating of Irish education by establishing regional educational authorities, removing all church control of education, and guaranteeing opportunity to the nonacademic child. (DM)

New York State provides 100 percent financial assistance to schools for approved innovative activities and demonstration projects conducted during the summer months. Reported are results of projects funded in supervision of work-experience programs, instruction of disadvantaged and handicapped students, advisement of youth organizations, and…

Courses in basic education, business administration, and systems are recommended. (MU)

Examines the general background, objectives and organizational patterns of team teaching. Advantages and problems of the instructional approach are discussed. Bibliography. (LC)

Discusses legal basis of project IMPACT (program for improvement of attendance and curtailment of truancy) in terms of advantages and pitfalls; the District Committee in terms of its objectives, organization and functioning; and observations in retrospect of successes, failures and clues for future. Case study presented. (Author)

Briefly describes a program for high school personnel to increase awareness and acquire a realistic viewpoint from which to assist the user or potential user. Includes addresses of source materials (CJ)

Describes a new career orientation program for seventh and eighth grade students in six Ohio schools. Contents include (1) informing students, (2) curriculum designed, (3) program content and organization, (4) responsibility for dissemination, (5) enrichment activities, (6) local administrator responsibility, and (7) importance of in-service…

Part 1 of a two-part series. Article includes material from the author's forthcoming new book, Innovative Programs in Industrial Education.

The described curriculum can serve as a model for sociology departments that would like to make modest changes in their master's level programs to train students for careers in applied sociology. (Author/RM)