Describes an open-plan school with an open curriculum that has had success in academics and in winning the support of parents. (IRT)

Describes a program in which both handicapped and nonhandicapped children learn and grow through their mutual interaction. (MP)

The author describes the activities and achievements of two federally funded projects for gifted and talented education in California. (CL)

Three programs for gifted students are described: a 2-week publication arts project; a summer science enrichment program; and a consortium. Note: Article includes: "Risks and Results: A Summer Program on Publication Arts" (Neil Daniel); "Summer Science Program at Appalachian State University" (John Tashner, Richard Stahl, and Debby Carr);…

The NIH-EPA Chemical Information System (CIS) provides facilities useful for the characterization and identification of chemical substances in industrial, academic, regulatory, and emergency response environments. It is comprised of a variety of data bases, retrieval programs, and related processing and display programs with on-line interactive…

In a course on emergency services, students learn how to make proper use of emergency vehicle services and realize the importance of facilitating the work of these services. (PBS)

Describes a program for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students that is intended to help students learn to transfer reading skills to subject areas. (IRT)

Gives a brief history of the chemical engineering department at Case Institute of Technology and discusses its present curriculum, goals, and faculty. (MLH)

Eclecticism by itself is meaningless. "Anything goes" must go. Here's a flexible approach in which the improviser can assimilate various music traditions and from them develop a style that is both comportable and personal. (Editor)

Describes the rules of the CSPA-CSPAA Bicentennial project, describing some of the responses it has received.

Inschool suspension programs can combine efforts to help students succeed with the administration of discipline. (IRT)

The program described reduced the total number of students suspended in the high school by approximately 29 percent and in the junior high by approximately 42 percent. (IRT)

Describes inschool suspension and gives examples of successful programs. (IRT)

Describes and evaluates six common and/or empirically validated school-based substance-abuse programs, including Here's Looking At You, 2000; Developing Understanding of Self and Others (DUSO); Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE); Growing Healthy; QUEST; and Social Decision Making--Social Problem Solving. QUEST had all 11 key program elements;…

The authors describe the REACH Beyond Tolerance program, a schoolwide model for teaching children tolerance, and they argue that most current school curricula do not prepare students to operate effectively within an ethnically and culturally diverse world. (Contains 27 references and 1 appendix.) (Author)