BECAUSE TYPICAL UNIVERSITY RESOURCES SEEMED INADEQUATE FOR WORKING WITH SEVERELY EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED STUDENTS, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHED A HALFWAY HOUSE OR THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE IN FEBRUARY 1966. A RESIDENCE HALL WAS UTILIZED AND REGULAR RESIDENTS WHO VOLUNTEERED AS PROJECT PARTICIPANTS WERE INSTRUCTED ON COPING…

Describes the cued speech method of learning used by deaf children in an experimental program at the National Child Research Center. (CM)

Advocates using an experimental or "communi-site" approach to teaching basic speech. Suggests that students seek out problems from local communities and use the classroom as a base of operations for their issue-oriented speechmaking assignments, lectures and problem-solving processes. (MH)

Hawaii's experiment with the 3 on 2 plan in which three teachers are assigned to two classes has been judged not worth the cost because students in the program do not do any better on math and reading tests than do students in regular classrooms. (IRT)

The reading instruction methods of Sylvia Ashton-Warner are succeeding in the classrooms of the nine teachers involved in the Vancouver Project. (IRT)

Bond responds to questions about the School for Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado, where students design and structure their own programs. (HMD)

The author describes the experiences of a school that tried a computer assisted system of class scheduling. The process is modeled after college systems. (RP)

This paper looks at the development and practice of an extracurricular "free university" on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. (Author)

Discusses the new relationship in higher education between the university and the "free" university community that surrounds it. (PG)

The author contends that the City University of New York's open admissions'' program does not represent fundamental change. (Editor)

A collection of brief, individual essays on innovative programs in physical education, including the following: involving computers, coeducation and game theory. (CL)

Included are: a discussion of the need for aesthetic education, instructional packages available, suggested teaching methods, and classroom practices. (SP)

Article gives comments by students and the interaction that took place during an exchange trip between two groups of youngsters whose environment, way of life, and even language were different. (GB)