In 2001, Arizona's Children's Action Alliance (CCA) developed a resource for community groups interested in exploring the need for care for school-age children. Titled "School-Age Care Tool Kit: A Guide for Measuring Needs in Your Community," the resource provided step-by-step advice to community organizations on how to identify the need…

This paper reports the results of a pilot intervention designed to improve students' mathematics proficiency through self-efficacy training. Seventeen pre-first year college students participated in a five-week summer program that included whole class instruction, small group tutoring, and individual meetings with instructional coordinators. As…

This report describes one of a series of pilot studies conducted to evaluate the instructional effectiveness of the "Harcourt Reading" program. This particular study focused on 7 kindergarten classes that started the study in the fall of 1999 and continued throughout the entire academic year. Students were taught selected themes using the…

Western Electric's accelerated management development program for hand picked college graduate students consists of a high risk training project in which the management candidate accomplishes his task or is terminated. The success of such projects puts candidates in third level management in seven years or half the normal time. (DS)

This study examines a neglected area: the relationship between personality and academic achievement for school children in a non Western culture. (Editor)

At New River Community College in Dublin, Virginia, a variable merit-pay plan is underway. The plan, designed by the faculty's Improvement of Instruction Committee uses a variety of inputs from students, peers, and supervisors. The variety of subjective inputs are used to assure a relatively objective assessment of faculty. (DS)

This paper describes the utilization of the MRG process within the twenty-six schools only, some of the changes and innovations that have occurred, and how the methodology for implementing the MRG process has been transferred from the consultants to the district. (Author)

A pilot career counseling outreach program is described in this article. Bringing the idea of a counseling booth from the comics, California State University, Los Angeles, seeks out students rather than waiting for them to visit the office. (JC)

In 1969-70 the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene received $400,000 in state funds to conduct a drug education pilot program in Metropolitan New York. While drug information activities were not evaded, primary emphasis in each project was placed on dealing with drug-related social and economic problems and finding alternatives to drug…

Describes how the Cambridge Pilot School is working in spite of problems that occur when an alternative school is housed in its parent school and the natural constraints of the two territories come to play. (Editor/GB)

Article discusses the desirability and feasability of establishing a national data bank for student mental health. (Author/RK)

Research supported in part by grants from the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, the Canada Council, and the Defense Research Board. (RS)

The participating students were provided with membership in a group which had psychological reality, were given some reference facts with which to compare themselves, and were given some intellectual tools by which they might better understand the stresses acting on them. Evaluation of the pilot project was generally favorable. (Author)

Esso Education Foundation feasibility study using subprofessional counselors (graduate students) and group techniques to provide more counseling to placement registrants than is available with professionals doing individual counseling. (Author/CJ)