This paper presents a report on a special services aide program in Connecticut. The community was the source of the paraprofessional personnel, who were then trained by teachers. By the end of a successful second year, there was a need for a university/school cooperative training program to fill the demand for these personnel. Presented in a…

Determines, on the basis of achievement gains and dropout figures, that a remedial reading program at Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado, using college student tutors was instrumental in improving the reading abilities of freshmen in an open enrollment college and in motivating them to stay in school. (MS)

Explains individualization of a physics course in terms of organization, testing, and philosophy. Organization of laboratory and lecture is focused on two topics, classical mechanics and relativity theory. The testing consists of quantitative and qualitative questions. (DS)

Camp and outdoor education facilities operated by state Future Farmers of America associations should be made available to local school districts in an effort to broaden general education in "true to life" outdoor education. (Author)

Traces the organization and development of a central county reading clinic with facilities for diagnosis, remediation, and teacher training to supplement 30 satellite clinics in individual schools. (MD)

Describes the organization of (1) The Communicative Laboratory Center in Durham, North Carolina, for inservice education in the teaching of slow and reluctant learners and (2) The Diagnostic and Reading Skills Facility in Crewe, Virginia, for children in the upper and lower thirds of the normal curve in intelligence and reading achievement. (MD)

Explains a grade 4 through 9 reading program in White Plains, New York, which is divided into reading center, individual school, and inservice training components and gives student criteria, reading center organization, instructional procedures used, and reports of progress and future plans. (MD)

Discusses the computer program used to calculate first-order rate constants. Discussion includes data preparation, weighting options, comparison techniques, infinity point adjustment, least-square fit, Guggenheim calculation, and printed outputs. Exemplifies the utility of the computer program by two experiments: (1) the thermal decomposition of…

The curriculum for kindergarten through college and continuing education must serve all: "the college-bound student, the soon-to-be-married student, and the student heading for the labor market upon high school graduation. (JK/Author)

"A dead school system, centered around dead courses and dead examinations, is well on the way to being replaced by a system which nurtures the individual, and encourages originality and independence of thought among Irish children." (Author)

Describes a suburban living course covering pollution, crops, conservation, livestock, horses and dogs, landscaping, and camping and fishing. (DM)