If we are to enhance the benefits of schooling, attention must be paid to the earliest years--BEFORE--and to the possibilities for on-going later development--AFTER. (Editor)

This month's article presents three reading skills reinforcement centers that will strengthen your individualized reading program and make it more flexible. (Editor)

Highlights of the National Education Association's (NEA) annual meeting include endorsement of a national network of "learning laboratories" designed to help restructure public education. (MLF)

This article discusses how a school in Minnesota centralized its computer program into a lab situation taught by a teacher-computer specialist. Entire classes were instructed in word processing, programing with Logo, and modified drill and practice. Teachers were also involved in workshops to further computer literacy. (DF)

Describes a management plan for thirty individualized learning studios in the general music class. (Editor/RK)

Describes the ERAT (electronic-response and audiotutorial modes of instruction) system which is used to teach biology to non-science majors at Ball State University. Outlines the course content, the student activities involved in using this system, the role of the instructor, and the value of technology in education. (JR)

A discription of the facilities and services at the Instructional Media Center at Grossmont College. (HB)

A review of the available research in listening comprehension and some suggestions on how to teach listening skills. (RB)

Describes a graduate program which the Department of Educational Media at Auburn University is developing for the preparation of library media specialists which allows students to formulate their own objectives and to use the state as their learning laboratory. (Author/DR)

Shorthand laboratory appeared to have no significant influence on terminal achievement in intermediate shorthand. (JS)