A description of the Tutorial Project which provides secondary school students as tutors to elementary school pupils. The tutors operate under the direction of the elementary school teachers and administrators, and generally serve from one to two hours daily. The project is designed to provide success-oriented educational experiences for high…

By a volunteer effort Harlem's Malcolm-King College has brought higher education to the ghetto. (Editor)

The reactions of volunteer and nonvolunteer subjects to experimental treatments are compared in two exploratory studies, and the resulting data are analyzed. (DB)

A method is presented which permits teachers to use volunteers to conduct programed instruction and use behavior modification methods in preschool settings for severely handicapped children. (KW)

Describes intervention program in which unpaid, untrained, and minimally supervised volunteers served in a one to one helping relationship with children manifesting behavioral problems. Although the program failed to have a substantial overall therapeutic impact, children displaying a high incidence of inadequate immature" behavior showed marked…

There are no differences between volunteers and nonvolunteers among subjects who completed questionnaires on sexual behaviors. However, as compared to nonvolunteers, volunteers who participated in further research reported more liberal sexual attitudes. Data does not support view that recent changes in sexual behavior are reflection o changes in…

Describes how a senior citizen volunteer tutor program at Emerson Elementary School in Riverside (California) achieved success through careful preparation, staff and student cooperation, extra effort to find interested senior citizens, and continual expression of appreciation to volunteers. Presents 17 hints on starting a grandpeople project. (RW)

Sex education in Beaverton (Oregon) is provided through a volunteer, after-school program set up and administered by parents. This article discusses the program's controversial origins and its present success. (WD)

The all-volunteer armed force system is less socially representative than the mixed conscription/voluntarism system of the pre-Vietnam War period. Ideological and political factors block a return to conscription, though strategic and monetary factors point to the failure of the all-volunteer force. (Author/GC)

At St. Helena School, parent volunteers refurbished a vacant classroom to create a kindergarten and they have remained involved as aides. The author discusses what motivates parents toward school volunteer work: concern for quality education, the need for work experience, and the friendships and personal satisfaction gained from volunteering. (SJL)

The article describes VISION Foundation, a self-help program providing work opportunities for both paid and volunteer persons who are newly blind or have progressive eye diseases. (Author/DLS)

An interagency collaborative project trains those who supervise and advise volunteers in community organizations to assist volunteers in career development and life planning. (SK)

In this experiment conducted in the Netherlands, male and female interviewers tried to gain cooperation from a sample of female respondents in a study of women's liberation. In agreement with the hypothesis, female interviewers obtained a significantly higher response rate on this sex-related topic than did male interviewers. (Author/SJL)

Stating that reducing volunteer leader turnover in extension services saves time and money and provides better program support, the author suggests offering better working hours, pleasant surroundings, reasonable work hours, and other inducements to retain volunteer workers. (MF)