The article describes a program developed in 1972 in Montgomery County, Maryland to provide daily resource remediation to elementary school aged children with language handicaps. (CL)

Completion of the gymnasium-auditorium of Anatolia College in Thessaloniki is a testimony to the friendship between the peoples of Greece and the United States. (MJB)

The director of a middle school intramural athletic program describes the process of developing his school's program from a very limited offering with small financial backing to a program involving nineteen activities, a full-time director, and six assistants. (MJB)

LaGuardia Community College's Teaching, Application and Reinforcement (TAR) Program helps students develop the three thinking techniques, calculative, reflective, and analytical thinking, necessary for the mental agility that must be a part of the changing climate of the business world. (RK)

The purpose of the described assertion-training workshop was to give participants some knowledge of the process and content of the job interview and assertive verbal and nonverbal interview behavior. (Author)

The Modesto plan includes basic skills competency standards in the K-8 grades and competency-based high school graduation. (IRT)

Peer counseling cannot take the place of a valid guidance program within a school. It can, however, augment an ongoing guidance effort by providing appropriate experiences for students and thus freeing trained guidance personnel for more specialized work. (Author)

A minicourse program with students from grades four through eight at the Oregon State School for the Deaf has been rewarding for teachers and students by serving to develop skills in immediate practical areas of the student's experience as well as in developing recreational skills and interests in such activities as chess, mime, and karate, and…

Countries are increasingly interested in providing adequate library services to ethnic minorities. The National Library of Canada's Multilingual Biblioservice is described. Cooperation on an international level is needed to provide efficient services to migrant workers and ethnocultural minorities. (Author/KP)

A model is presented for screening procedures identifying preschool children in need of immediate intervention, further evaluation, and/or treatment, as well as setting up methods for monitoring all children designated "at risk" (having special mental health needs) on a long-term basis. (MJB)

Described is the System of Training for Effective Performance, a competency based training program for professionals and paraprofessionals providing services to retarded persons. (IM)

The kinds of programs that can be developed and specifically designed to assist all professionals in the identification of human competencies and qualities that have direct relationship to the improvement and effectiveness of curriculum and instruction were discussed. (Author/RK)

Describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive, results-oriented management system based on a participative management concept. (Author/IRT)

Described is the University of North Florida's competency based program for teachers of the hearing impaired. (CL)