Describes a quick new academic readability estimate; ways to correct adult learners' writing errors; and high school reading programs in Ohio. (RS)

Describes an in-service writing project designed to teach writing across the curriculum to administrators of the Window Rock Public Schools. Lists the benefits the project will have toward the implementation of writing across the curriculum. Describes the collaborative efforts of those teaching in the project. (PRA)

Describes and discusses the Rio Grande Holistic Scale (a grading scale developed at the Rio Grande Campus of Austin Community College). Notes that the scale has been so successful that it now undergirds the entire basic writing program, crystallizing student thinking about the process of writing, unifying grading criteria, informing course…

Offers selections from a plan that focuses on the basics of getting telecommunications moving in schools. Gives suggestions on learning how to use telecommunications, funding for technology, and education about and promotion of telecommunications, both within the school and in the larger community. (SR)

Describes the Children's Book Project in Tanzania (a promising program of the Canadian Organization for Development through Education), which has, with limited outlay, created a children's publishing industry in Tanzania (consisting of children's books written by local authors) that fills a dire need for books. (SR)

Discusses how the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist College attempted to meet the challenge of rapidly expanding communication media in its region. Describes in particular a core of required and elective courses designed for all communication students and in Applied Communication Studies curriculum. (SR)

Presents an excerpt from an observed 30-minute Reading Recovery lesson. Describes aspects of the Reading Recovery Program. Introduces the articles in this themed issue on learning, teaching, and learning to teach in the Reading Recovery program. (RS)

Presents annotations of 17 books and conference papers (published in 1991 or 1992) dealing with literature appreciation at all levels of education. (RS)

Describes a college's values program that uses a campus-wide education effort to help students heighten their awareness of values issues. Discusses how the college developed a comprehensive framework for addressing these issues, thus allowing students to strengthen their moral courage and act on their principles. (MKA)

Describes the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, a prestigious and rigorous international program for students in the last two years of secondary education, which earns students a diploma recognized for university admission throughout the world. (SR)

Describes a microfilming project to preserve music manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Germany), highlighting project goals, problems and peculiarities encountered filming the collection, color micrography, and black-and-white filming. (PEN)

Provides an overview of microfilming by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PMB), a non-profit organization established in 1968 to identify and preserve archives, manuscripts, and rare printed documents relating to the South Pacific Islands. Describes a 1997 PMB microfilming expedition to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. (PEN)

Describes how the Orange County (Florida) Library System separated walk-in and phone-in reference services. Discusses telephone reference services, the Quest Line database, staffing and resources, results, and keys to success. Includes the Quest Line work flow chart. (PEN)

Discusses the particulars of the new faculty orientation program at Kean University (New Jersey). Highlights those areas which were most advantageous. Makes suggestions on how the program might be further improved. (RS)

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has begun a grant program to expand career options for Ph.D.s in the humanities, both within and outside academe. Awards will help academic departments encourage students to interact with the world as part of graduate training; use training in nonacademic settings; and match top students with…