A learning disabilities program at the American Community School in Athens, Greece followed the procedures established by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The 12 children (grades two through four) participating exhibited statistically significant growth in most academic and perceptual areas. The model was inexpensive as…

Discusses a project that was to construct an empirical description of a model employer cooperative education program. (JOW)

Provides an overview of child care through description of (1) a nursery managed by a neighborhood group in charge of community affairs and intended for children under three and (2) a kindergarten run by a municipality for children between three and six and one-half. (RH)

Offers examples of recent work in the use of computer technology to teach writing. (Available from: Modern Learning Publishers, Inc., 6517 Liggett, Oakland, CA 94611, $14.) (AEA)

Reports on the New Mexico Humanities Newspaper Project through which state scholars become newspaper contributors. (HOD)

The Art Enrichment Program for intermediate-grade gifted students, developed at the University of Texas, bases its core and curriculum on museum exhibitions. The author describes various program components, including selection of students, program activities, the special sketchbook, publications used for the program, program cost, and program…

The Potentially Able Learner's Program in Rockford, Illinois, is a centralized gifted program for students (K-6). The program features self-contained grade-level groupings and emphasis on parent involvement. Evaluation is gathered through achievement testing, parent questionnaires, and student self-report. (CL)

The Magnolia Speech School for the Deaf (Jackson, Mississippi) provides an intensive reading program for five preschool children. The program consists of four areas: the story reading session, primer reading, vocabulary development, and phonics. (SB)

Trainable mentally retarded students (15 to 18 years old) participated in a program of meal preparation instruction which featured establishing menus, determining their nutrition values, shopping, storing the groceries, and preparing the meals. (CL)

Describes rationale and framework for the psychology program at Loyola University, Chicago. The two major components of the curriculum are a core consisting of basic perspectives, phenomena and methods and a variety of special interest areas that students can pursue in depth. (Author/DB)

This article provides a concrete description of existing career education programs and proposals. (MM)

The authors analyze the individual elements of a curriculum at the Lexington School for the Deaf (Jackson Heights, New York) in terms of who is being taught, how the staff organizes its teaching, and what should be taught. (SB)

Eight states maintain Governors' Honors Programs for gifted and talented students. Programs in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia are briefly described in terms of content, location, and selection processes. The programs are seen as an important way to augment programing for gifted…

The author discusses the work of Britain's Assessment of Performance Unit, a national program of performance monitoring to identify the incidence of underachievement. (CL)

Describes the successful implementation of the Models at Prevention program in peer counseling in Colorado's Laredo Middle School, including the initial and ongoing training of peer counselors, and the range of tasks assigned to peer counselors. (PGD)