Explores possibilities of involving students in projects which offer them real world experiences. Examples include student newspapers, student courts, student advocates, and student participation in contract agreements. Journal availability see: SO 507 251. (Author/DB)

Extension services for older adults offered by the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, New York are identified. (Author)

Reviews developments in the television industry in Australia with specific reference to children's television. Advertising regulations and research and publications related to children's television are also noted. (RAO)

Children's television transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Independent Broadcasting Authority is reviewed and various types of programs are described. (RAO)

Television programing governed by national policy is described. The Advertising Code is noted, as are sources of foreign programs, media research agencies, and references to Malaysian media studies. (RAO)

Briefly describes television programing for children in Mexico and lists (in Spanish) those presented at the Universities of Iberoamericana and Anahuac on children's television. (RAO)

Describes five steps which instructors at Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation follow in preparing one-hour training courses on engineering assurance procedures. (CMV)

Discusses the changes in the major motion picture research collections during the past 15 years and describes the contents of the five largest remaining ones: Twentieth Century-Fox Research Library, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Research Library, Burbank Public Library--Warner Research Collection, Universal City Studios Research Library, Walt Disney…

Describes a university program which provides students with a practical experience in television and radio broadcast programing and production. (CMV)

Classroom use of the Associated Press Education Wire Service provides children with immediate news documentation for instruction of global affairs. (CMV)

Provides details of a mini-course, developed in cooperation with the school's study skills center, that is the essential feature of a program designed to help students in the business communication curriculum improve their writing skills. (RL)

Examines the political influences on minimum competency testing in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and California. (IRT)

The article explores the use of resource rooms with educable mentally handicapped students. (PHR)

The article describes the Active Response Inservice Training Model (ARITM), a classroom-based one-to-one instructional approach for teachers of severely handicapped students. (CL)

Describes and contrasts selected graduate programs so that patterns and directions of this emerging field can be examined by the community of educational researchers, and reviews the programs of a few major institutions in an attempt to define general characteristics among, and differences between them. (Author/JEG)