Discusses how to improve the effectiveness of staff meetings. Suggests important considerations: determining whether a meeting is needed, determining its purpose and objectives, developing the agenda, timing, facilitating group discussion, keeping and distributing minutes, and evaluating effectiveness. (CSS)

The zero-based budgeting approach is designed to achieve the greatest benefit with the fewest undesirable consequences. Seven basic steps make up the zero-based decision-making process: (1) identifying program goals, (2) classifying goals, (3) identifying resources, (4) reviewing consequences, (5) developing decision packages, (6) implementing a…

Provides guidelines to involve the entire community in a successful reading fair, based on procedures followed in Newport News, Virginia. (RL)

Reveals that 7 percent of the community college population has some type of special education need. Outlines steps taken in various schools to serve learning disabled students and discusses some of the drawbacks to establishing and maintaining adequate programs and services. (AYC)

Describes how an area vocational center planned and implemented a self-paced, word-processing operations program within the existing business education program. (LRA)

Two nursing students describe how responsibility for a senior citizens' health fair provided an excellent opportunity for them to build on their previous knowledge and skills. Responsibilities included supervising the planning of the fair's activities and coordinating the participation of community agencies. (CT)

A program is described in which home economics teacher educators at Texas Tech University developed a training program for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients which utilized the resources of both vocational educators and CETA personnel. Discusses organization of personnel, program implementation, results, and implications. (CT)

The staff of the Young Adult Training Center, Columbia, Missouri, used Canfield's Learning Styles Inventory to select enrollees for its training programs and to modify instructional strategies based on learner needs. The three vocational skill training programs involved were retail sales, building trades, and data entry. (CT)

Suggestions are made for American Health Association members in starting a state association in those areas where they are presently lacking. (JD)

Described is a project in which art education graduate students in Perth, Australia, built a story mural for blind children. Using an Australian adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz," they created a mural with textures and objects that illustrated the story carried in print and braille. (SJL)

Part 1 of this article presents a systematic methodology for organizing course content, a review of literature relevant to the structuring and sequencing of instruction, and its implications. Part 2 discusses five factors that provide insight for persons who develop instructional strategies for the delivery of course content. (CT)

Golden Age 4-H Clubs provide opportunities for older persons to remain curious and creative. They can become vehicles for communication between the generations both in the family and in the community. Their development requires careful planning, incremental development, and clear participant motivation. (Author/SK)

The last two decades of this century will see an enormous increase in the proportion of elderly people in the population. The author here states the case for a much more intensive effort by adult educators to cater to the needs of people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s. (Author/CT)

The authors examine, through interviews with 175 parents, students, teachers, and support personnel, potential obstacles to the successful development and use of individualized education programs (IEPs) as required by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (CL)

Recommendations are made for improving certification standards for programs providing training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Training techniques, cost effectiveness, and teachers for CPR programs are discussed. (JD)