A major difference between longitudinal in-service training and a more traditional approach was that each participating teacher was expected to apply in her classroom, under supervision, the concepts presented in the training program. (Authors)

Norway's district colleges were created to relieve pressures on universities and enable more people to study near their homes. (PG)

Project Broad Jump is a New York-based education program for some 600 youngsters from urban areas, in the third through tenth grades. The basic concept of the program is that academic opportunities are not accessible to many inner-city youth, whereas Head Start and Follow Through help pre-third graders, and Upward Bound helps high school students.…

Describes a human relations oriented curriculum, encompassing and transcending traditional subject matter divisions; an experimental summer program in California is discussed. (SP)

Describes the experimental project of the Baltimore City Public Schools to prevent development of learning disabilities and to reduce the number of school dropouts within the population identified as educationally disadvantaged. (Author/MB)

Results of an inservice training program for preschool teachers and health coordinators to encourage the classroom teaching of preventive dental health measures. (SP)

Discovering a child's possible auditory and visual perceptual problems at the reading readiness stage may save him years of frustration in reading. (MM)

The techniques described (role-play, in-basket exercises, action mazes, simulation, games and sensitivity training) facilitate effective learning, or how it feels'' to make administrative decisions and live with the results. The basis of these techniques in educational psychology is summarized, and their appropriateness for teaching special…

Summary of course content and copies of instructional materials are available from the author: Director of Speech Education, State University College, Brockport, New York 14420. (Author/RD)

Emphasis is given to problems which arose between the nursery school teachers and the hospital personnel taking part in the program. (Authors/RY)

Article discussed use of schedule modules in a large Catholic high school. (SP)

Author describes an experimental unit, the Utopia Project, given in the College of Basic Studies at Boston University, and shows how it works with examples of actual projects undertaken by students. (DR)