Gives brief overviews of such programs as New Brunswick's Criterion-Referenced Testing Program, Alberta's Education North project to develop educational programs better attuned to the needs of students in isolated communities, and a study of how and why parents choose between public and independent schools. (IRT)

This article briefly examines special treatment centers in the United States set up to provide services to child abusing families. Australian efforts to contend with child abuse are also mentioned. (CM)

Addresses the question of whether eight public libraries can work together to serve a common area. The problem, objectives, personnel, programs, materials, and training involved in setting up shared staffing to provide regional service to Spanish-speaking residents are described. (VT)

This summary account of the research productivity of the school of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology describes research in theory and foundations, information processing technology, and information systems, as well as efforts to explore the nature and content of the information-based areas of knowledge. (VT)

An effective model for training foster parents, developed jointly by an early childhood program and a foster care agency, is briefly discussed. (Author/SE)

An unique approach toward a deeper understanding of art and artists by elementary school students, author also suggests implications for strengthening the basic skills of reading and writing. (Editor)

The USAF Substance Abuse Seminar represents a new phase of preventative drug and alcohol abuse education. The seminar includes: Air Force Drug/Alcohol Abuse Control policies; local conditions regarding substance abuse; sociopharmacology concerning the status of substances relative to their effects; and personal responsibility in the use of…

"Reciprocity," a social simulation game based on exchange theory, was developed to study dynamics of power relationships in the context of marriage and the family. The manner in which Reciprocity may be used to study power in family relationships is illustrated in terms of a husband-wife and a parent-teen version. (Author)

Serendipity is the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for and a doodle is an aimless, unconscious, automatic drawing. Here they are combined in order to create imaginative designs. Briefly discusses five principles of design. (Author/RK)

For the teacher with a limited art materials budget plaster provides a "best buy" in terms of the variety of art projects possible and relative cost. With plaster, the student can cast blocks for printmaking, carving, and assemblage and use it, in combination with other materials, in crafts projects. Describes different kinds of plaster…

Examines the extent to which Minnesota's current school finance program satisfies the criteria of fiscal neutrality, equalization of fiscal effort, and accommodation of educational need. (Author/IRT)

The introduction of the state reimbursement program substantially improved the equity of the distribution of state funds for support of public school operations. It was not the basic intent of the program to reduce expenditure and school tax disparities and this has not been accomplished. (Author/IRT)

The author describes an adapted physical education program at Cleveland State University for students who, because of permanent or temporary disabilities, cannot participate in regularly offered physical education activities. (MJB)

Braintree St. Coletta Day School, for mentally or physically handicapped, seizure, or behavioral-problem children, provides a full physical education and recreation program, including motor development, adaptive physical education, and corrective physical education. (MJB)