Discusses research, educational, and conservation activities of the Center for American Archeology, focusing on the Native American Studies program at the center's Crow Canyon (Colorado) site. (JN)

Describes how a workshop for career women (N=20) faced with a conflict over the motherhood decision was designed, conducted, and evaluated. Review of data suggested that the workshop increased awareness of positive and negative aspects of both choice alternatives, providing a realistic and informed vantage point for decision making. (LLL)

Describes attempts to form a communication group among male and female inmates. The failure of this effort is discussed with emphasis on the special problems and needs of groups in prisons and the lack of insight among the institution's administration and staff. (JAC)

Teacher centers respond to a teacher's own defined needs by offering assistance, instruction, and materials to help enrich classroom learning experiences. Services provided social studies educators by the Teacher Center in Humboldt County, California, are described. (RM)

An oral program for four-year-old children with hearing impairments features teamwork among direct interventionists (teacher, speech therapist, audiologist, psychologist, social workers, and parents) on rehabilitative speech therapy activities as well as integration of hearing with hearing impaired children. (CL)

Describes a structured experience that can be used as a process intervention during resistive phases of group development, by increasing participant commitment and responsibility. Goals of group self-description are to define problems, involve members, and develop cohesiveness. (JAC)

Illustrates how group counseling can facilitate personal development in older adults, using an open-ended support group at a geriatric day care program. Recurring themes included relationship with adult children, housing needs, religion, health issues, and age stereotypes. (JAC)

Describes a counseling group comprised of people concerned with elderly family members. Group members found both information and emotional support, and all suggested that the group be continued. Challenges counselors to meet the need for similar groups. (JAC)

The report of an intensive tour of 11 special summer programs for gifted and talented students includes descriptions of the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan; National High School Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Governors programs (with a table giving information in 10 categories); and talent searches. (MC)

There is a fundamental difference between the courses given at university drama institutes in the Netherlands and those of the drama departments in the American universities. This is one of the points to emerge from this article on the University of Amsterdam's Institute of Dramatic Art written by a senior staff member of that institute.…

At a time when educators are searching for and providing interesting interdisciplinary programs such as unified arts and related arts, it would seem that programs and projects which relate the child's educational experience with real life concerns are of extreme importance. Stamp collecting satisfies that criterion and its different facets were…

The Project Redesign grant proposal, developed by the faculty of William Cullen Bryant High School, was responsible for the initiation of a comprehensive career education program. That program and the Careers Center and Career Guidance Service were the focus of this article. (Author/RK)

What can social studies teachers do to try to put some of their teaching into more realistic avenues? A high school teacher undertook a project at the primary and general elections in order to create some student interest in the electoral process. (Author/RK)

The American Film Genre Program helps students get into exploring the genre film as experience in examples of work that reflects the art of the film at a powerful and imagination-kindling level. (Author/RK)

The traditional emphasis on European and American history has been balanced with new studies of Africa, Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Latin America. Illustrative of this new approach is a study program developed at Valhalla High School in Westchester County, New York. (Author/RK)