The article describes a program in which deaf students from a Canadian residential school for the deaf attended a regular high school for certain subjects. The program's success is attributed to planning, adequate staff support, and the fact that students maintained their positions of leadership in the residential school. (Author/DB)

A national demonstration project, Training and Placement Service, has placed more than 6,500 people with epilepsy in jobs. The approach features support by local affiliates of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, job preparation, technical training, and employer cooperation. (CL)

Recent proposals emphasize the identification of master teachers. The authors argue that master teachers must not be identified by a pay differential only but through a program of demonstration schools with a three-step career ladder of increasing recognition and inservice responsibility. (MT)

The article describes four mentorship models used with gifted high schoolers: (1) the Mentor Academy Program, a skill-based classroom model for training mentors; (2) the Learning Enrichment Service, a program coordinating enrichment in the school and community; (3) the Enrichment Satellite Program, a community-based mentorship service agency; and…

A circuit that can be constructed by students as an experiment or by the teacher for demonstration, produces signals that can be seen on a screen and heard through an amplifier. (GB)

A questionnaire was designed to solicit information from foster parents about their need of and desire for training, their suggestions on program content, and their perceptions about personnel for training foster parents. Questionnaire data, results of a pilot workshop, and curriculum demonstration evaluations were used to construct a training…

Volunteer Maryland!, one of the national community service demonstration projects, was evaluated at 28 of 35 original host sites. Full-time trained volunteer coordinators had a significant impact on increasing the number of volunteers and on the quality of the programs. (SK)

Describes a step-by-step process for writing a winning application for the U.S. Department of Education Elementary (or Secondary) School Recognition Program. Underscores the importance of faculty involvement. Explains the application process, covering brainstorming, administrative questions, the first and final drafts, and use of various readers.…

Looks at the components for an exemplary vocational education program and describes several programs that meet the criteria. (JOW)

Providing appropriate educational services to young children with autism may be one of the defining challenges of the 1990s and early 2000s for early childhood special education. The number of children with autism is increasing dramatically, the research literature is rich with evidence-based instructional strategies, and the Internet is even more…