Describes the teacher-training program at the Urban Institute of Essex County College in New Jersey which enlists people interested in tackling the problems of the inner city. (GB)

Author discusses the goals of open classroom" teaching, notes the contrast between traditional teaching methods and those of open education, while suggesting that those who believe in the new techniques start demonstrating to the public that chaos or abdication of the school's responsibility will not result. (PD)

Article tells why the familial model for schools is more effective and humanizing and why it can produce people who can educate themselves. (Author/MM)

Discusses a contingency management program in an inner-city elementary school, whose basic core is a structured system of language learning packages providing guidance for the direct teaching of oral language, integrating reading and writing activities, and correlating language learning with other academic instruction. (VJ)

Describes the origins and motivations of the free school movement and examines in detail the cases of the Barlow High School and the Free University in Tucson, Arizona, (JM)

The portion of the Personal and Social Development Program presented here is designed to help intermediate and secondary students with behaviors grouped into several categories: (1) self concept; (2) responsibility; (3) group consideration. (Author/CJ)

Elements of the individual education plan (IEP), developed to provide flexible and meaningful training for the handicapped child, are presented. Deals with awareness, exploration, evaluation, preparation, job development/job placement, employability skills, parents, community interests, and follow-up. An appropriate education strategy is also…

The article describes the empirical development of PREP (Preparatory Reading Program), an individualized program for teaching concepts to visually handicapped children at a prereading level. (Author/SBH)

Presents abstracts of four documents from the ERIC junior college collection that deal with the special programs or techniques used by two-year colleges to help students needing remedial or developmental assistance. (DR)

Describes the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation/Kellogg Project, whose purposes were to identify the essential elements of non-traditional study programs; to develop a classification, guidelines, and evaluation procedures for such programs; and to propose a policy for more uniform approaches by accreditation commissions. Outlines project…