Commuter students are often left out of college programs because their needs and schedules differ substantially from the traditional student for whom the programs are planned. Once the basic educational needs of the commuter student are being met, planners can focus on developing programs geared to other needs of the commuter such as personal…

Physical education is an essential part of basic general education. Aside from the influence of heredity and nutrition, physical education is the only way in the school's instructional program to insure the development of organic vigor and vitality. It is the only organized means for the development of nerve/muscle skills that are so essential to…

Twelve papers describe recent developments at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) on the campus of Gallaudet College. Topics covered include the following: MSSD'S role as a change model; an Instrumental Enrichment project designed to increase adolescents' thinking skills; an approach integrating reading, English grammar, and composition…

The article describes the development of the first of a series of courses to update nurses' knowledge and skills. Discussed are: personnel survey, course development, objectives, speakers, instructional methods (multimedia approach), class scheduling and publicity, student evaluation, approval for continuing education units, and positive response…

Presented are techniques for establishing and criteria for evaluating an in-service education program for teachers of gifted children. (SB)

Television programs, utilizing the satellite to reach rural disadvantaged groups in six States in Central and Eastern India, will broadcast instructional information in four dialects. Program development and effectiveness are discussed, with implementation planned for August 1975. (LH)

Discusses the problem (facing institutions of higher technical education) of maintaining continuing programs of institutional growth and providing for future development while meeting maintenance and operational costs. (MLH)

Issues such as income, occupations, affirmative action, family structure, social class, and poverty are discussed in terms of their appropriate assessment to develop social policies and programs. Methodological biases, such as making generalizations about groups on unrepresentative samples, are discussed. (AM)

Examines some of the discussion provoked by recent research in compensatory education strategies in Europe and the U.S. emphasizing the complexity and relativity of 'socio-cultural handicaps' and arguing for an individual rather than for a social class oriented approach to compensatory education. (Author/JM)

Describes a program being carried out by the Faculte des Sciences Psycho-pedagogiques, Universite de l'Etat a Mons, in which controlled intervention is made to identify handicaps imposed by the social environment on education and to pinpoint the most efficient educational methods, focusing on how the project affects family-school cooperation.…

Supervisors from state vocational rehabilitation agencies described their information resources, and practices. In preparing proposals they rate facts from their own or similar agencies as most potent. They relied even more heavily upon personal experiences. Suggestions are made for better linking state supervisors to current rehabilitation…

In this reorganized and revitalized master's program, traditional admission requirements have become more open, and learning is not by blanket prescription but on the basis of individual needs. (Author)