Discusses industry-based industrial arts: components of this base; structure of the base; and organizing industry-based industrial arts programs using processing, management, and model enterprise modules. (CT)

A paraeducator model uses community volunteers, including parents, to implement individualized educational programs for gifted and talented students. (CL)

Reviews Peru's efforts to bring about the planned development of scientific, technological, social, educational, and cultural information, including information organized by libraries, documentation centers, and other nonconventional agencies. Central to this concept are actions planned for a national information policy to be coordinated with…

The research described in this article was undertaken to discover the extent to which the SHAred Process Evaluation System (SHAPES) model of the community development process can be said to describe what actually happens in a community development project. The model and its development and instrumentation are described. (Author)

This article suggests a number of ways in which Title VIII might be strengthened by amendments when Congress next considers reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. (CT)

Describes the Circulation Management Project being developed by the Empire State College of the State University of New York--a program designed to upgrade the newspaper circulation department. (HOD)

Discusses ways of identifying stress and its sources and then changing it by altering behavior patterns. Guidelines are provided for implementing a stress management program. (Author/MLF)

Describes Merrill Lynch's Account Executive Simulation Exercise: a three-hour simulation designed to evaluate job applicants' potential for success as account executives from their performance in the role of an account executive. (CT)

Reviews 10 steps which serve as guidelines to simplify the creative process of producing a video training program: (1) audience analysis, (2) task analysis, (3) definition of objective, (4) conceptualization, (5) visualization, (6) storyboard, (7) video storyboard, (8) evaluation, (9) revision, and (10) production. (LRA)

The need to articulate a high school home economics program with the junior high or elementary feeder schools is examined. Contains a suggested plan for developing articulation through the establishment of a better curriculum for student learning. An illustration of a sample plan is included. (CT)

Describes a project designed to use television public service announcements to present basic nutrition concepts and the nutritional choices in the marketplace in a format that would reach the handicapped deaf and the nonhandicapped as well. (CT)

Examines the characteristics of a sound and effective writing workshop program and discusses steps for planning such a workshop. (HTH)

Intended for special education teachers developing a high school resource program, the article contains 21 "tips," such as writing a short introductory letter to regular teachers when initiating a new program, striving to achieve administrative support, and communicating frequently with parents. (DB)

Sources of information on the topic of academic planning are presented. (Author/MLW)