This article presents group strategies and communication considerations that might be useful in the counselor's efforts to help teachers create a developmental milieu within their classrooms. (Author)

Describes a program in which members of the student personnel staff at a midwestern university gather every two weeks for a "brown bag luncheon." There is no formalized agenda and attendance is completely voluntary yet staff members can informally discuss issues of concern. (Author/HMV)

Outlines a program of study based on the novel. (RB)

Discusses an educational program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that attempts to relate science and engineering to art. It is intended that this interdisciplinary program will lead to a revitalization of art and play a significant role in the humanization of technology. (JR)

Three different uses of the term student development--humanism, complexity, and developmental stage theory--are reviewed. Two examples of the use of stage or hierarchal developmental theory for making changes in student personnel structures are described. (Author)

Describes an innovative program designed to train teachers to play an important role in school social work. (Author/CS)

Summarizesundergraduate and graduate physics courses offered in 16 institutions in Scotland, involving course structures, branches of research, admission requirements and o ptional possibilities. The material is useful to physics teachers, career advisors, and students who are interested in the field. (CC)

This evaluation report of one alternative high school in New York City analyzes the academic achievement, attendance, testing, academic credit, English language proficiency, and attitudes of the sixty minority students who attended this urban prep school in Chinatown. Three fifths of the students in the program were recent Chinese immigrants. The…

The competency-based, student teaching program of the Southern University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) College of Education is described. The program basis is a listing of fourteen competencies (teaching skills) which provides a guide for structured and meaningful activities during the observation period, consistency in directing those experiences,…

The paper focuses on the integration of 36 moderately and severely retarded children (3 to 16 years old) from a private self-contained special school to a public elementary school. Addressed are the participants and procedures, settings, preparation for integration, and the integration experience. Noted among the implications of the integration…

This evaluation report for the 1976-77 Tacoma Public Schools Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) program is organized around the six priority needs and eleven related objectives which were specified in the applications for funds. Each need and objective is listed along with related data. Conclusions about objective attainment are made in terms of…

This report describes the Experimental Schools Project (ESP) conducted by the Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma, Washington, under funding from the National Institute of Education. The ESP was a five-year program designed to provide the optimum learning environment for each student. Each of the district's 13 schools attempted, through…

In order to affect accountability within individual school districts, there needed to be some system that would give direction and precedent to those responsible. A ready-made system that had a foothold in private industry was management by objectives (MBO). Rather than being a new principle of management, MBO simply has a different emphasis. It…

Described is the Magic Kingdom preschool screening program designed to provide an efficient, low cost, and comprehensive means for identifying children with special needs. Sections address the following program components: target population; definition of terms such as accomodations (facilities), admission ticket (preschool screening report), and…

Presented are four papers on the Positive Alternatives to Student Suspensions (PASS) Program, a project designed to provide a sequence of intervention strategies intended to prevent and/or minimize the frequency of nonproductive social behavioral acts of secondary school students in participating schools. In the first paper by R. Bailey and J.…