Describes and discusses the results of a class for parents of children in foster care. Foster care from the natural parent's viewpoint is presented. (SB)

Lists the goals and features of the successful alternative schools program in Philadelphia, as well as the differences between alternative schools and traditional schools. (IRT)

The National Association of Governors' Highway Safety Representatives (NAGHSR), with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), pilot tested a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program in a number of communities across the country. In 1995, NAGHSR launched the effort in five communities, which received…

A foster parent recruitment strategy was developed and implemented to increase the pool of potential foster parents in a treatment foster care program serving troubled children between 2 and 18 years in a south Florida community. Foster parents in this program were expected to implement a specific skill acquisition program for each child and…

Children who lack health insurance do not have access to preventive care, placing them at greater risk of serious illness. This special report of the Voices for Illinois Children describes federal and state efforts to address the problem of uninsured children and issues that will need to be monitored as Illinois begins to help children access…

This document provides information about the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP). UCSMP began by examining the curricula of other countries for proven ideas and methods, creating textbooks and training programs at both the elementary and secondary level, and engaging in extensive evaluations of its own work. This publication…

Westside Area Career/Occupations Project in Glendale, Arizona is a resource center of materials and media on career education serving 70 schools. (MS)

Importique, a nonprofit wholesale organization, is a marketing-enrichment program initiated at Chaminade College of Honolulu to provide an integrated, interdisciplinary, practical business experience extending the traditional business curriculum into an applied situation. (AG)

Discusses principles of goal-setting and motivation as the reason for a successful yearbook program which is self-supporting. (RB)

The Assistant Secretary for Education defends the reason for and the role of career education in the United States, and reports on the activities of federally-sponsored career education programs during Fiscal Year 1972. (KM)

The content of introductory chemistry courses in the Australian universities is described from an analysis of notebooks provided by students who had taken the courses. Variations in content and treatment in physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry are described. (AL)