Explains how the High School Victory Corps was devised to encourage high school students to prepare themselves mentally and physically for the World War II war effort. Information is presented on how teachers in all subject areas adapted their courses to wartime circumstances. Strengths and weaknesses of the program are discussed. (DB)

Presented is a journalism primer, with activities designed to get elementary school students involved in all journalistic processes--observing, interviewing, recording, planning, and writing the final product. Journalism terms are defined. (KC)

Describes New Jersey's Migrant Education Program, including legal definitions, state-level responsibilities, supportive services, and the Migrant Teacher Corps Project. (SJL)

The career day program has a long history as a standard procedure with high school and college populations. The project described here was an effort to determine if the career day concept could be adapted effectively for use as a career-awareness activity for elementary pupils. (Author)

Describes a project in a summer art program for gifted junior high school students. Students studied Marisol Escobar's "found object assemblages" in which combined shaded drawings pass for sculpture and then created their own sculptures based on characters in the "Wizard of Oz." (AM)

Describes the Museum in the Schools program in Ithaca, New York. Elementary and secondary classes participate in two workshops, one held in school and one in the museum, introducing students to art and its relationship to other subjects. Details of workshops for a high school ceramics class are included. (AM)

Presents specific training objectives which constitute a base for a one-year clinical training program in family therapy at the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago. Training objectives include three categories of skills: observational, conceptual, and therapeutic. Describes training objectives and the program in which they are implemented.…

Focusing on issues related to the training of industrial workers in Brazil, this article reports the findings of a study which evaluated the effectiveness of vocational training offered by the National Industrial Apprenticeship Service. (LRA)

Describes the American Production Center and a productivity improvement system in which people become part of the productivity solution when given responsibility, recognition, and reward for productivity improvement. (LRA)

The newborn nursery provides an ideal setting for introducing basic concepts in primary care. In the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center nursery, a multidisciplinary team considers the many physiologic adjustments a newborn must undergo to adapt successfully to its environment. (Author/MLW)

Describes clinical uses of the Life Story Book, a technique to help foster children connect their life experiences. The technique can reeducate children toward a more positive self-image. (Author/DB)

Discusses the application of the PLATO IV computer-based educational system to a one-semester basic drawing course for freshman architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design students and relates student reactions to the experience. (RAO)

Describes a CAI package intended to help teachers achieve facility with questioning techniques. The instructional package consists of an interactive computer simulation which diagnoses teachers' questioning problems, six interactive computer tutorials that treat specific questioning problems, and a computer-based post-test simulation designed to…

The Maritime Research Information Service (MRIS), sponsored by the Maritime Administration and operated by the Transportation Research Board, distributes information to the maritime industry through monthly and semiannual publications, special bibliographies, computerized retrievals, and online retrieval directly through the Lockheed Dialog…

Two Ohio State University faculty members discuss writing problems prevalent among entering college students and describe that institution's Writing Workshop program. (GC)