To complement its outdoor physical activities, a New York day camp offered a visual media class. During the 6-day program, campers agreed on the theme of the video and which locations would be used, shot and edited the video, and made copies for each participant. As campers came to understand what the program was about, attendance increased. (TD)

Describes and analyzes the design dynamics of a school principal self-assessment process provided through a 3-day state-approved Leadership Assessment Academy that allows principals to experience and reflect on self-assessment leading to a personal growth plan. (SLD)

Describes the bijural program of Louisiana State University Law Center. The program educates all first-degree law students in both the common law and civil law traditions, preparing them for the increasing globalization of legal practice. (EV)

Discusses why bijural legal education is a positive development. Describes a joint-degree law program at the University of Paris that offers some of the same benefits. (EV)

Explains the "Standing Tall" project, which was a multi-faceted project focused on embracing the future through creative drama, movement, storytelling, and improvisation activities. Notes that students' original stories of their experiences on September 11 were developed into a one-act play. Describes how students worked under the…

Describes the Calvin Environmental Assessment Program (CEAP), which involves regular lab sessions or course projects to collect data that contribute to an overall environmental assessment of the campus and surrounding areas. Addresses the program's exploration of particularity versus universality in knowledge, and its Care Theory pedagogy. (EV)

Describes a new partnership for principal leadership preparation between the University of Virginia and three school districts in the metropolitan area of Richmond, Virginia. (EV)

Explores some of the tenets that lead to the success and demise of school-university partnerships. Also describes a collaborative process by a university department of educational leadership, a regional consortium, and three school systems to offer a principal preparation program. (EV)

The innovative program enables students to enroll, for additional academic credit, in regular disciplinary courses which have supplementary readings and class meetings in a foreign language. Currently 25 professors are experimenting with the special courses and 45 students are enrolled in the foreign language tracks of 4 courses. (DB)

Describes how responsible student reporters can publish potentially controversial articles through the Youth News Service (YNS), a nonprofit news cooperative of member high school papers across the United States and Canada. Delineates how the YNS system operates. (KEH)

Two surveys about the teaching of orofacial pain in the dental curriculum are reported, and the comprehensive course taught at the University of Kentucky is described. The first survey was of 89 Kentucky course alumni. The second was of 57 dental schools concerning the status of their orofacial pain curricula. (MSE)

Describes the evolution of a publication of student writing from a one-time publication for a statewide writing event to a bona fide quarterly high school writing periodical. Notes that the published writing comes from actual classroom writing assignments from a variety of content areas. (RS)

Describes an experimental Young Author's conference for secondary school students. Notes that bringing together young writers and professional authors provides incentive for writing, as well as an authentic audience and purpose. (RS)

Spurred by soaring garbage-disposal costs and the closings of local landfills, colleges and universities are organizing campus wide recycling programs. The Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges will soon be adding the subject to its computerized list of information available to member colleges. (MLW)

Describes the Teen Pregnancy Project, which began in Savannah, Georgia, in 1981 as an effort to reduce mortality rates of at-risk infants, and has grown into a multiservice program with many approaches. Stresses the need for a home visitation initiative to reach clients. (SKC)