Describes the objectives, administration, design, activities, and costs of the comprehensive management development program at De Anza College, California. (RT)

Maintains that a social studies program should be concerned with preparation of students for participation in a democratic society and suggests that an elementary school social studies program should deal with values, information dissemination, political processes, decision making, and socialization. (Author/DB)

Assessment of the Montgomery County (Maryland) preschool health roundup indicated that this standardized screening program is cost-effective for early identification of preschool children who will need health and/or educational intervention to achieve their maximum potential. (MJB)

Briefly describes the efforts of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, working with predominantly black colleges, to become advocates for improving health care in communities surrounding their respective colleges. (Author/AM)

Skills for living are not a frill. Kids learn basis and have fun with survival stations. (Editor)

Learning stations are the basis of a "plan-for-each-child" programs. Whole-class and group instruction are part of the plan. (Editor)

The author, a composer and the director of an electronic music lab, is concerned with developing an "aesthetic" in listening to electronic music. Describes an approach he has found to be successful with his students--one that provides "a mode of understanding, a vehicle for making aesthetic decisions". (Editor/RK)

Reviews the 500th anniversary of Uppsala University in Sweden. Also discussed are the university's organization, research efforts, and science enrollment trends. (SL)

Discusses establishment, functions, program development, policy considerations, and future prospects of the Latin American Centre for Physics (CLAF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (SL)

In 1975, under the auspices of the Manhattan School of Music, an opera for children project was initiated at Public School 75 in New York City. Its aim was to acquaint the public school's faculty, parents, and students with the technical and performance aspects of opera production. (Author)

California's pioneering premarital counseling law for minors went into effect on November 23, 1970. This presentation includes: a historical background, the implementation, the experience and impressions of the Conciliation Court, and the results of a statewide survey conducted to determine how other judicial jurisdictions in California were…

The use of puppetry is discussed as a means to facilitate the expression of feelings in young children. Four puppet stories actually used are included, along with materials and props needed. (Author)

Describes a program to prevent infant abuse and neglect through the identification of infants at risk. (SB)

Discusses trips to London with junior high school students: planning, choice of goals, costs, pocket money, board and lodging, language preparation, programming. Gives a detailed account of a trip which was particularly geared to the students' circumstances. The possibility of partnership with English schools is discussed. (Text is in German.)…

Notes that thus far surveys show that the children like the project, the parents like it and the teachers love it. Even the National Institute of Education likes it. Yet it is the only one of its kind in the country and seems likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. (Author/AM)