The paper describes a system of hearing aid maintenance carried out by teachers of the hearing impaired in the Pittsburgh public schools. The concept of defining developmental teacher-skill levels in hearing aid maintenance is proposed and various support services for teachers are considered. (Author/SBH)

Describes a field-tested program for making students aware of and adept in skills that have brought success to business owners in their local community. Entrepreneurship education must be regarded as a complement to existing vocational and business education programs. (JOW)

The article describes VISION Foundation, a self-help program providing work opportunities for both paid and volunteer persons who are newly blind or have progressive eye diseases. (Author/DLS)

The article reviews provisions of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) regarding parents' rights for independent educational evaluations and describes the program at the Central Institute for the Deaf to provide this service. (Author/CL)

The article describes three programs--the Concerns Based Adoption Model, the Mid-Coast Teacher Training Center, and the National School Volunteer Program--designed to assist public school personnel in making changes to meet the mandates of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act). (SBH)

Details of the current energy crisis and the need for educational energy programs are presented. The author presents an outline of energy education concepts and promotes the need for an energy-literate society. (MP)

The Vo-Tech Mini Mall is a model program for unemployed out of school youth (ages 16 to 21). During a 2-year period, 60 youths participated in the program. Participants attended classes at a vocational center and/or community college depending on their career goals, developing skills in areas such as carpentry, plumbing, and heating. (PHR)

The article describes the integration of physically handicapped children into an English primary school. The school was chosen because of its location and physical attributes. The attitudes of staff members and nonhandicapped students toward the handicapped children have made the integration program a success. (PHR)

The article describes the Teachers of the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program in Fremont, Nebraska, in which two itinerant TAG teachers visit each first- and second-grade classroom once a week for eight weeks to improve gifted identification in the primary grades and to demonstrate creative activities that can be useful to all students. (DLS)

What started as a summer arts and crafts program in the predominantly Mexican-American lower west side of St. Paul, Minnesota, has developed into a "dropouts" school accepted into the public school system. The small school emphasizes strictness, caring, basic skills, and student responsibility. (SJL)

Describes the introduction of the Prescriptive Reading Inventory in an elementary school, outlines its use, and presents several mastery learning theories that support and clarify its use. Concludes by recounting the benefits of the program. (Author/IRT)

Describes a program that attempted to increase sensory awareness and thus to improve attitudes toward poetry and inspire students to write their own poems. (JM)

Outlines the development of the program of an assessment center designed for use in management and trainee development. (Author/IRT)

Describes a program in which a resource center in a college of education offers services to public schools in the areas of curriculum development and evaluation, advisory services for public school administrators, psychological services, and innovative field-based approaches to in-service education. (IRT)

The article describes the development and content of a comprehensive career education program for blind elementary and secondary students. Eight areas are explored in the program: job search skills, job behavior, hygiene and grooming, purchase habits, budgeting, banking, home management, and health care. (CL)