Presented is a description of the Portage Project, an early intervention program with a home-based delivery system which serves 163 children (0-6 years old) with exceptional educational needs. (SB)

The article discusses the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program in California, which attempts to screen all children for medical problems and provide preventive and maintenance care. (CD)

A cooperative program for training business education teachers was established by the Lethbridge Community College and the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Canada. The program combines courses from both institutions and leads to a Bachelor of Education degree. (EC)

The Career Education Program (CEP), conducted at the Walter T. Helms Junior High School (Richmond, California), included the participation of grade 7-8 students, teachers and administrators, and professionals from outside agencies. The advantages and disadvantages of using the services of an outside agency in the career education program are…

The author describes an affective education program which helped fifth grade students to understand themselves better and to increase their vocabulary for expressing emotions. As a result, students seemed to increase friendships. Various learning tasks and procedures were used to achieve the above. (SE)

This is a set of recommendations by a task force of physical educators which establishes guidelines for improving physical education programs in colleges. (CD)

This article describes how middle school students in China serve agriculture. Students are involved in inventing lamps which destroy insects, in surveying, and in mapping out underground pipelines and locations for pumps and spraying nozzles in a sprinkling system. (Author/RM)

The author describes the testing efforts of Student Services in his school in the light of financial cutbacks, public demand for accountability, student demand for relevance and student apathy toward the counseling center. (Author/HMV)

Describes the Dorm 5 experiment at Windham College, Putney, Vermont, designed to create a living environment to assure individual rights and intellectual values through positive reinforcement techniques following operant conditioning. Problems of vandalism and noise were solved as physical space was utilized to meet student needs for social and…

Discusses a training program created by the National Minority Purchasing Council to help minority business people understand and use sophisticated sales training methods to sell their products to large industries. Available from: Educational Broadcasting, Barrington Publications, Inc., 825 S. Barrington Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90049. Subscription…

Reasons for federal support of international education and language programs are cited. The International Education Project of the American Council on Education is described. The work and recommendations of the Task Force on Language in assessing the nation's language needs are discussed, as is the need for integration of language and…

Describes a four-week summer program designed to attract women into the engineering curriculum and ultimately into an engineering career. (MLH)

Reports on a flexible doctoral program in geology designed for students interested in a teacher-oriented career in liberal arts, community, and junior colleges. (CP)

Discusses a program that allows university engineering faculty members to work in industry for one year to gain experience that will aid in their instruction of engineering undergraduates. (MLH)