An educational program designed to give practical information and skills to rural village women in Upper Volta is described. (DE)

The system used successfully since 1963 on Michigan State University's East Lansing campus for scheduling more than 43,000 students, using the IBM "Socrates" program, is described including advantages for students, department heads, faculty, and registrar. A system abstract is included along with notes on installment procedures and…

The Safe Drinking Water Act protects our drinking and ground water resources. The Water Advisory Council interprets and implements the law. Implementation principles include high priorities for public health, cost considerations, state and local participation, environmental impact, decentralized decision making, and use of federal and state…

This article reports an empirical investigation of client perceptions and attitudes toward a comprehensive rehabilitation center for the physically and mentally handicapped. Client attitudes toward the staff, the treatment program, and the institution were analyzed in terms of their relationship to individual background characteristics. (Author)

Discusses the Continuing Education Unit (CEU), a unit of measurement defined as: ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education activity under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction. Describes the purposes of the CEU, what organizations may award the CEU, and the kinds of programs utilizing…

The Extended School Program consists of 3 phases: 1) a remedial reading and mathematics program in school; 2) an excursion program in the metropolitan area; and 3) a summer camp program to overcome the "summer lag". (Author)

The author discusses and describes various educational programs developed in India in three areas: to reorient the education system to enable its product to fit into the available and developing employment patterns; to increase the paid government jobs; and to promote self employment. (Author/BP)

The article discusses the career development theory (a theory of life stages and developmental tasks, career patterns, and individual differences) and what to expect of elementary/secondary career education and guidance programs in terms of planning, objectives, curriculum development, and evaluation methods, processes, outcomes, and criteria in…

This review focuses on instructional applications of computers, and their role and effects in the educational environment found in schools, colleges and universities. (Author)

In considering the use of open education to meet the needs of present and future generations, this article attempted to answer a few basic questions: 1) Why will not the old ways do? 2) Where is it all leading? 3) What are the characteristics of this new system? 4) What should this new system be like? (Author/RK)

Describes the textbooks, the curricular, and co-curricular activities in the AFJROTC program at Hopewell High School. Includes a description of a specialized, fourth-year course extension which includes celestial navigation, communicative techniques, computer systems, meteorology, and Air Force Role in National Defense. (MLH)