Describes the Taft Museum In-School program, a cooperative art education project with the Cincinnati public schools which combines a program conducted at the Museum with classroom visits by Museum staff. (BR)

Children with asthma were selected as a target group for a school-based health education program jointly planned and conducted by health and educational personnel in order to (1) address identified health needs of children and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of problem-specific health courses. (MJB)

This issue presents information about the Concern for Children in Placement (CIP) project which promotes a cost-effective case monitoring system to assist courts and agencies in knowing where children under their supervision are placed and why. The CIP pilot test is described and plans for wider dissemination are presented. (JMB)

Several projects are described which are exploring tools and techniques for interlibrary cooperation in an effort to improve services for users. (STS)

Both the experimental group (receiving positive feedback) and the social skills group (receiving special social skills training) showed significant reduction in absentee rates in relation to the no-treatment control group. (MB)

Describes activities in the development of the project, Home-based Employment to Accomplish Rehabilitation (HEAR). This description is intended to serve as a guideline for replicating similar programs with any group of homebound individuals. Project objectives, effect of home-based employment, guidelines, and enhancing professionalism are topics…

Outlines research using a behavioral measure of self-disclosure in a natural small group setting and compares the results with those obtained in a laboratory dyadic exchange. (MH)

Finds that user responses to a pilot test of a voice mail system were generally favorable and that training and usage aids were effective. Recommends the continuation of voice mail and identifies improved "intershift" communication as an important advantage. (JD)

Describes an innovative intergenerational pilot project, Team Work, in Northern Virginia in which older adult volunteers help disabled young people progress toward secure competitive employment. (BB)

The Biomedical Research Support Grant (BRSG) at The George Washington University Medical Center funds pilot projects submitted by the faculty. The procedures for allocating BRSG funds, their distribution in Medical Center departments, and their effect on attracting extramural funding over a five-year period are discussed.

The Chemical Education for Public Understanding Project is a three-year pilot project designed to provide the public with accurate information on uses and hazards of chemicals, ranging from control of garden pests to types of toxic wastes generated by industry. Discusses project aims and educational materials to be developed. (JN)

Describes a 1981-82 pilot project in the use of computers in grades one through eight by six schools in two suburban Washington, DC, school districts. Despite "the many obstacles and barriers to computer literacy," three of the six schools made "amazing progress." (JBM)

Proposes the development of an adult education literacy and family planning pilot project in India, which has a total population of more than 600 million. (ABM)

The academic progress and immediate promotion of minority and disadvantaged students in medical school is of national concern. The preliminary impacts of two experimental programs at the Medical College of Virginia, and their implications, are discussed. (LBH)

Consistent with the longitudinal evaluation of the Intel Teach to the Future Essentials Course that Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (CCT) has been conducting since the program's inception in 2000, the Intel Foundation commissioned CCT to conduct a formative evaluation of the Leadership Forum Pilot program. This…