Describes the Organization, Research, Presentation, Accountability (ORPA) teaching approach that involves students in all phases of learning. Results of comparisons of student achievement in classes using the ORPA method and the lecture method are included. (IRT)

Using computerized mailing labels is an innovative method for counselors to obtain career information at low cost. (Author)

A compentency based teacher education program in the area of the trainable mentally retarded has been developed at the University of Kentucky and includes 7 function areas subdivided into 17 training competencies which in turn are broken down into performance based individualized training modules. (MH)

Described is Project Memphis, a curriculum model which contains 260 structured lesson plans which parents, paraprofessionals, and volunteers can use with developmentally delayed preschoolers. (CL)

Urbana (Illinois) High School has had a class for pregnant students for several years, taken for physical education credit. This year the program was expanded to include postpartum as well as antepartum students, a unit on nutrition, and community health and social services. (MF)

Shows that a Rehabilitative Planning Services Unit can provide invaluable assistance to a Public Defender's Office and enhance the quality of representation provided to indigent defendants. Such a unit could prove to be essential, particularly in situations where the defendant is ineligible for Pretrial diversion programs. (Author)

Describes goals of the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center (KYC) and the philosophical stance and the implementation of that philosophy within the center. Issues discussed range from administrative structure through descriptions of inmate classification and treatment. Educational and vocational programs as well as the token economy systems are…

The "Law in a Free Society" project of the State Bar of California, in cooperation with other associations and institutions, is a systematic and comprehensive program at the K-12 level in civic education, emphasizing the development and application of reasoning and inquiry skills to the concepts of authority, justice, freedom,…

New forms of institutional self-study have been developed in recent years by colleges and universities preparing for review by an accreditating organization. This discussion attempts to conceptualize a college self-study designed to remedy educational problems and inefficiency and describes its use at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. in 1976.…

Practicing dictionary skills helps kids discover something old, something new and something borrowed about our language's history. (Editor)

A 25-year-old male suffering from pervasive anxiety was treated with a modified induced anxiety procedure. Results indicated that as modified induced anxiety was sequentially applied to anxiety levels, there was a corresponding decline in self-monitored anxiety at the targeted level. (Author)

Describes a new type of program which was conducted in a group and stressed distinctive techniques as mutual-assistance among job seekers, a "buddy" system, family support, and sharing of job leads. Results indicate 90 percent of counseled job seekers obtained employment versus 55 percent of noncounseled job seekers. (Author)

This article describes the merits of career education and of an alternative, two-year program open to high school seniors and intended to develop students' career planning abilities. (DS)

Discusses the current status of Summerhill school since the death of its founder, A. S. Neill, and concludes that little has changed. (JG)