This year is the first for the collaborative effort between the Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, and Arizona Humanities Council and the members of the Arizona Reads Committee. This Arizona Reading Program manual contains information on program planning and development, along with crafts, activity sheets, fingerplays,…

This congressional hearing focuses on a General Accounting Office (GAO) examination of the Department of Labor's management of Job Corps recruitment and placement contractors. Its focuses are how the contractors demand and measure success in two of the four strategy areas--client commitment and client placement in a job with long-term…

This publication presents an annotated list of books, videotapes, magazines, journals, conferences, training opportunities, and organizations related to the topic of urban youth ministry. Resources specifically geared toward urban youth ministry are marked. For each listing, the publication provides the name, contact person, address and telephone…

This proceedings contains transcripts, presentations, and workshop summaries from a 2-day conference on experiential learning in youth development, held by the Brathay Hall Trust in the English Lake District. Brathay is a British educational charity that offers a variety of youth development courses, ranging from outdoor adventure activities to…

The woodcraft movement in Britain and America to a large extent captured the rebellious youth culture that emerged spontaneously at the turn of this century. (Author)

Factors are discussed which may have played a part in the failure of the Chicago Yough Development Project to fit ghetto youth into the "straight" world despite their possession of impressive nonstandard skills. (SA)

Describes child advocacy, its application to the juvenile court setting, and conflict between the underlying assumptions of child advocacy principles and the juvenile court system. Presents alternative methods for applying child advocacy methods in the context of the current juvenile justice system. (Author/MJL)

Assesses the effectiveness of youth work experience programs currently being carried out in the United States. Emphasizes the importance of Dewey's principles of continuity and interaction in assuring that such programs provide youth with meaningful and lasting skills and knowledge. (GC)

Describes the development of Communist youth groups, the Young Pioneers, in Siberia during the 1920s and 1930s. The youth organizations became increasingly associated with the schools in promoting socially useful work. The press reinforced their popularity and stimulated student militancy. (AM)

In Western Europe, approaches to teacher education for programs for youth in transition from compulsory education to employment are being reexamined, and model staff development programs will be proposed based on regional needs and practices. Greater sensitivity and awareness to this educational stage are predicted. (MSE)

Describes two studies concerned with the implementation and maintenance of Young Farmer programs. Overall findings and implications showed that the local teacher's belief in and positive interest and attitude toward the Young Farmer program is of paramount importance. (HD)

Presents a process for defining high-quality adventure for all young people. Expands "progression" in outdoor adventure to include application of what is learned to other aspects of life. Emphasizes the importance to adventure education of nonadventurous dimensions such as group experience, and stresses that adventure is both medium and a message.…

An Oregon 4-H camp ran a week-long program in which 87 elementary age campers and 16 secondary age counselors operated businesses, dealt with customers, and promoted products. Pretests/posttests showed an average 8.7% increase in camper knowledge of money management skills, with 72% of campers showing improvement. Lists ideas for teaching money…