This program extends the availability of assertiveness training to students through the use of paraprofessionals as group leaders. This article describes a format for developing a peer assertiveness-training program and is based on the authors' experience conducting this program during the 1977-78 academic year at Pennsylvania State University.…

Describes the Open Access Study plan, an external degree program, of the Atlantic Institute of Education. (IRT)

Describes a small (305 students in K-12) school district in Iowa and its relationship to its community. (IRT)

The fundamental purpose of an introductory course in education is to help students form a personal basis for decisions about entering the profession and preparing to teach. (JD)

Visits, calls, letters, and "Saturday school" help parent and teacher to talk, work, and learn together. (Editor)

The author describes his year at Teachers College, Columbia University, under the Klingenstein Fellowship program, which is designed to develop educational leaders for private schools. (KC)

The papers of Thomas A. Edison will be compiled and published in a 20-year project under the sponsorship of the National Park Service, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Smithsonian Institution, and Rutgers University. This effort, the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, and its background are described. (JMD)

The purposes of the Wyoming Human Services Project are delivery of human services, determination of how best to train and use human service personnel, and development of suggestions and guidelines for other rapidly growing communities about how to deliver human services most effectively. (Author/KR)

Preparing for careers while simultaneously deciding about life-styles forced college students to take a hard look at their involvements with others. The authors designed a group mini-course that would deal with specific topics, yet provide a warm, sharing atmosphere to allow each participant to be a teacher for all. (Author)

Describes the successes of the Career Opportunities Program before it was deleted from the federal budget. (IRT)

This article describes the possibility of a voluntary group of men, without professional leadership, who wish to help themselves toward growth and freedom from the constraints imposed on their lives by social male sex roles. The article lists possible activities, discussion topics, and considerations for starting new groups. (LPG)

The parent is the first and most impressive influence on the child. If the appropriate education about human sexuality could begin through the parents, children could develop much healthier values about their own sexuality. A description of an attempt in Chattanooga, Tennessee to involve parents with this subject is given. (Author)

Examination of data from 30 large urban school districts and site visits to several of these cities reveal many successful programs and a deepening concern for needs not well-served by traditional schooling. Some of these needs and programs are presented. (Author/IRT)

This program's success is based on trust between the committee members and the administration, the administration's willingness to share power with students--some of whom have not been model students, and the selection of students who are "underground" leaders and who are willing and able to help resolve student conflicts. (Author/IRT)

The article describes an intensive therapeutic program for learning disabled children (ages 11-13 years) that focuses on the interrelationship between learning capacity and personality. (Author/DLS)