The report describes the objectives and accomplishments of a summer enrichment program, Migrantes Envueltos en Nuevos Temas de Educacion/Migrants Engaged in New Themes in Education (MENTE), for promising and talented migrant high schoolers. The program is a cooperative one with a university. Students selected by a review committee are tested for…

Teachers who have been trained to work with normal young children (early childhood certification) or with older disabled children (special education certification) are unprepared to assume the multiple responsibilities of the teacher of preschool disabled children. Prior to the 1979-1980 academic year, few (if any) formal on-going inservice (or…

The article describes the planning and implementation of a continuing education inservice program for out-patient clinic nursing staff. Educational needs were assessed through interviews. Brief, twice-monthly seminar sessions stressed participant involvement. Copies of evaluation instruments are included which indicate favorable participant…

This article represents one of a series of Exploratory Units in Art that School Arts will be publishing this year. Using burlap, monk's cloth, felt, muslin, yarn, etc., students learned to create placemats, pot holders, scarves, handbags, pillows, stuffed toys and wall hangings. (Editor/RK)

This paper describes an application of basic concepts and theory from family life education in a community program for families. Following a review of background theory and philosophy, an action program model is presented and discussed. Experiences with the model are highlighted and implications for future work noted. (Author)

In an attempt to meet the special challenge of reaching rural youth, the Montachusett Opportunity Council's Family Planning Program (MOC-FP) has been operating a demonstration project that provides sex education and family planning services to adolescents in the rural areas of central Massachusetts. This article explains the program. (Author)

Article described an innovative program that combined curriculum reform with inservice teacher training. (RK)

Author described some of the techniques she used for teaching French at Roosevelt Junior High School, West Palm Beach. She also explained how these techniques helped students to maintain an early desire to learn a foreign language. (Author/RK)

Author suggested methods for record maintenance of alumni, provided a brief review of sources for gaining news of alumni, and pointed out the value that continued communication with alumni can make to the school. (Author/RK)

Forty Plus, a voluntary organization for job placement of unemployed executives and professionals over age 40, is described, with special emphasis on the need to know more about it. (AG)

This article described a short-term therapeutic camping program for emotionally disturbed adolescent boys employing behavior modification techniques, reliable observation of target behaviors, and implementation by staff members of the local community mental health clinic. (Author/RK)

Author explained the plan for an elective senior course in a public high school in Columbia, Missouri. (Editor/RK)

Describes the Kaiser Child Service Centers, operated by a ship-building firm and supported in part by the federal government during World War II, which provided 24-hour child care services to families working for the company. Offers many ideas relevant to today's child care needs. (ED)

"Operation Kanyengehaga" is a tutorial program being implemented by community volunteers and St. Lawrence University student volunteers. Located on the St. Regis Indian Reservation, this program's needs and priorities are established by the parents and leaders of the reservation. (AH)