This article describes the role of the counselor in the Houston Competency Based Teacher Education Program. This program includes: a retreat, Personal Assessment Feedback, videotape feedback, school feedback, affective modules, consultation with students and staff and individual counseling. (JC)

A description of an effective and innovative program designed to help alienated youth which is currently in use in the Newton Public Schools, Newton, Massachusetts. (JC)

A prototype, environmental education program, utilizing interchangeable modular packets of written, audio, and visual aids, is explained. Allowing for adaptations, its value is two-fold: it deals with a specific community and with the larger ramifications of our environmental situation, quality of life, and global values. (BL)

Health Start is being carried out to develop ways of coordinating health resources and to extend Head Start-type health services to a greater number of poor pre-school children. (Author/CB)

A description of Pensylvania's mobil computer-assisted instruction unit designed to provide graduate instruction to in-service teachers in their own communities. (AK)

A central premise of the Home Start program is that parents are the child's first teachers and that many parents want training to help them meet the challenges of parenthood. (Author)

Resource teacher programs designed to keep handicapped learners in the educational mainstream can be seen to differ across certain dimensions, though they should share some common standard attributes. (DB)

The Widowed Service Line, a mutual help program in metropolitan Boston that provided service by telephone, effectively meeting the various problems and needs of differing stages of widowhood, is described. (Author)