This article aims to stimulate an interchange of ideas on teaching through a discussion of experiential learning as a necessary, but not sufficient, component of the preprofessional student's education and a description of the semester programs of USC's School of Public Administration as a tool for incorporating experimental education into a…

The Junior Grade Books (JGB) Reading and Discussion program conducted in public libraries and classrooms is described. The purpose of the program is to improve reading comprehension skills while introducing readers to literary classics. The training of program leaders and how to organize a JGB group are also discussed. (JPF)

Described is a public health student internship program utilizing field experience and an interdisciplinary team approach. Students and professional field training supervisors felt the seven week program was successful. (MA)

Giving a child the chance to select and keep a book for her or his very own is the Federal Inexpensive Book Distributions Program's strategy for stimulating an interest in reading. (Editor)

The American Vocational Association (AVA) Board of Directors met during the annual convention and took action on several fronts. Given high priority were increasing vocational education appropriations for 1979, improving CETA, increasing AVA membership, and strengthening black vocational education participation. (Editor)

Delaware's experimental project to incorporate computer technology into vocational business programs enables students to use the computer without being data processing specialists. Seven modules suitable for secondary and postsecondary programs have been produced. (MF)

An outline of the nature of the timetabling problem, suggesting the kind of requirements that arise in practice and the criteria used to evaluate timetables, was presented. (Author/RK)

Practical considerations are outlined to assist foreign language educators to prepare grant proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Information is provided on the agency's review process and common reasons for the failure to obtain desired funding. (SW)

The author notes differences between private and public training and employment systems and describes various programs in Connecticut and California to educate youth for economic development in elementary, middle, and secondary grades. (MF)

A cooperative office education program at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, increased its enrollment and work placement of students with the coordinator's treating the program as a year-round process, which is illustrated in her August-through-July schedule of monthly tasks. (MF)

Describes the Parent Child Development Center Programs and presents results of evaluation and follow up programs. (SB)

Problems that confront nursing education and the quality of doctoral preparation are discussed in this article and include the steep rise in requests from nurses for admission into doctoral programs and tight university budgets; other concerns are the development of scholars and sharing research findings. (TA)

Examines the Abt Associates, Inc. findings on the effectiveness of Project Follow Through and disputes the report's conclusion that so-called "basic skills" approaches to the schooling of poor children are superior to other methods. (Author)

Described is a system for providing comprehensive community residential living for the developmentally disabled. (Author/CL)