The author outlines nine problem areas in implementation of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (SBH)

The author discusses considerations for successful parent school conferences. Sections address such components as goal setting, preparation, and steps to take in making parents feel comfortable. A one-year plan for four conferences is offered. (SBH)

Extension services for older adults offered by the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, New York are identified. (Author)

Introduces this special issue by discussing the nature of educational technology and its development in the antipodes as presented in the eight papers which follow. Topics focus on the understanding of educational technology as a systematic process--a problem-oriented approach to the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational…

Discusses general guidelines for systematically allocating limited resources by separating educational goals, determining priorities, and assigning to each those resources that serve it best. (MLH)

The idea of an open art studio or art mini-course to serve a need above and beyond the regularly scheduled art classes is important and necessary to a school program that is designed to meet the needs of the general intellectual and cultural growth of the child. Describes the art mini-course introduced at the Willow Ridge School in Tonawanda, New…

Vocational Rehabilitation in Guam has had its problems keeping its public aware of its services and willing to use them. Describes its efforts to change that situation in favor of positive feelings about accepting services. (RK)

Activity-based approaches give the museum-school connection new zest and dimension. (Editor)

Task analysis provides a means of effectively incorporating current learning theory and practice into instructional development methodology. It yields results applicable to specifying performance objectives, designing instructional activities, determining teaching strategies, and evaluating performance. (Author/BP)

Describes the institution, operation, and ultimate failure of a completely elective, ungraded minicourse system in a rural high school. (DD)

Special educators need to consider the implications of trends toward the rapid expansion of preschool programs for the handicapped, and the increased demand upon educators at all levels for systematic planning. (Author/DB)

Community involvement should be dynamically and persistently cultivated: it can enhance the learning of the student and is crucial to the continuing support of the public schools. Suggests seven planning phases that might be helpful toward developing effective community involvement. (Author/RK)

Career education in Illinois since 1971 is briefly discussed. The author suggests that it is time to take a different direction in favor of a broader definition for career education to realize the full potential of the movement toward the accomplishment of educational reform. (TA)

Answers to questions a business teacher may have about implementing model office simulation are discussed: Reasons for using simulation, how simulation fits into the curriculum, administrative support, equipment, starting the project, preventing problems through staff meetings with students. (TA)

Reports on a major EPDA project, undertaken to assist States in reviewing or establishing basic policy for vocational education, in which principles and policy statements were refined by top educators from five States and disseminated to more than 500 State personnel who studied how to integrate them into the planning process. (HD)