The speaker is optimistic. Mainly because there is only one way to go--up. (Editor)

Fifteen pilot districts in California are using a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS) to bring the logic of systems analysis to their educational procedures. (Author)

Reveals plans for a high school reading program based on total involvement of parents and teachers, a formulated philosophy, and careful attention to specific needs within the school. (MD)

Criticizes present means of identifying and correcting reading problems as inadequate and makes several recommendations for the raising of reading standards through improved programs, teacher education, and better problem identification. (MD)

A report by the project director of Kansas City's Computer Assisted Instruction Laboratory in Mathematics and Science. (LS)

"Des Moines makes a concentrated effort to bring together tomorrow's jobs and job-seekers. One strategy is an annual guidance institute. The 4-week program for counselors described here combined academic activity at Drake University with on-the-job experience in business and industrial establishments. (Editor/JK)

Discusses how a series of experimental health programs that have improved medical care for people in poor Nashville communities have also solved some of Meharry Medical College's financial problems. (WM)

A group experience with neighborhood workers in a black, ghetto community action program, with a white psychiatrist as group leader focuses on the definition of the task of consultation, derivation of mutually agreed upon goals, evolution of the group, and issues dealt with during the experience. (Author)