Through their Small Business Institute, University of Alaska students get practical experience while helping businessmen solve management problems. (Editor)

Describes a program designed to stimulate potential dropouts and for making school more relevant to many disadvantaged and previously unmotivated 14- and 15-year-old students. (Author/RK)

Justifies a program in teacher education in which thirty-three culturally advantaged first-year education students partake in teacher education by settling down, 130 miles from campus, to basic courses in social science, psychology, and administration. (Author/AM)

Authors described the teaching improvement program at the University of Massachusetts' Clinic to Improve University Teaching. Their experience with this model offered much insight for the clinical supervision process at the university level. (Editor/RK)

Article provides a quick look at how the new physical education has advanced compared to the old "p.e." in preparing children for productive lives. (Editor/RK)

In terms of people who lived under the same roof, a Senior Center within housing for the elderly was highly satisfactory and widely and frequently used. In terms of the elderly who lived elsewhere, it seems to have had little effect. (Author)

This article provides a description and some results of an educational program called "Driving While Intoxicated Du-Page" that the author was involved in as one of the consultants for several years. The results of the DWI Project demonstrates a County-Municipal-State cooperation for a common public safety goal. (Author)

The problems of evaluating educational programs for the gifted outlined here are: dealing with "higher level" objectives, the development of appropriate measurement devices, and the availability of time, money, and personnel. The Key Features Evaluation System, in four steps, is described. (BW)

The project reported on in this paper involved the implementation of systematic interpersonal skills training in empathy for the staff members of a community based, vocational development program developed to promote the career development of black youth. The design was to raise 12 black staff members level of skill functioning to an adequate…

Four art educators at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, developed and taught a cross-disciplinary program in Design Education for high school students. (Author/RK)

Discusses Michigan's state-supported programs for the gifted. (IRT)

Presents an outline of a six-session communication lab. These labs focus on feelings and their relationship to human behavior. (Author/HMV)

Describes the establishment and activities of the Spartanburg County Elementary School Administrators Study Council, which was organized through a cooperative effort of the University of South Carolina and seven school districts in Spartanburg County. (JG)

Describes a program in which student promotion is based on achievement. Standardized test scores have risen as a result of the program. (IRT)

Studies are divided into two groups--results of experimental programs and effects of traditional schools. The research supports the effectiveness of nontraditional school programs. (Author/IRT)