Describes a schoolwide secondary program in New York which includes the teaching of higher level reading skills for all. (RB)

Discussed the up-grading of educational levels and vocational skills of adults in Alberta's Northwest through the use of Community Vocational Centres. (Author/RK)

Since 1973, 450 high-risk newborns have been routinely screened for hearing loss at Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital (Chicago). (Author/LS)

Discusses the idea that with larger cohorts of the very old, subjects in their 80s and 90s will be increasingly sought as respondents. Points out various steps that need to be taken to assure that this older group will be represented by the ailing as well as the healthy community residents. (Author/EJT)

Describes the genesis, purpose, goals and activities of parent education and family advocacy programs which are presented as two models for non-traditional intervention methods of working with high-risk families. (ED)

The importance of the relationship between the personal characteristics of counselors and their professional functioning has certain implications for counselor education. This article discusses graduate program changes which can be made in order to reflect the significance of this relationship by placing a focus on personal growth. (Author/EJT)

Describes changes in the testing and grading formats of a biology learning-for-mastery program precipitated by rising enrollments, loss of classroom space, decreases in the number of graduate teaching assistants, and student abuses of the system. (GS)

The Urban Arts program uses community resources to bring the arts and artists to the schools and also to send students out to the studio, concert hall, stage, and museum. (Author/IRT)

The arts can provide new modalities for general learning for the handicapped. (Author)

Described is the integrated program for leadership in special education at Fitchburg State College (Massachusetts), and listed are 10 program objectives for students, including writing behavioral objectives and functioning as members of interdisciplinary teams. (CL)

Author described his own strategy for helping people learn to compose music, which he called the improvisational approach. (Author/RK)

This paper reports on some data from a research study in Brisbane on the effects of teaching activities in a series of lessons in which pupils used a self-paced curriculum unit designed by the Australian Science Education Project. (Author)

This study examined the teaching methods of the actor/teacher in hopes that the techniques developed at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, England, can be propagated and used to advantage elsewhere. (Editor/RK)

After establishing the importance of music among mankind, the author lists and describes several features he believes should identify secondary school music programs. (Editor)

Article focused on the technique of creating batik prints, which while stirring student interest, were hung in school halls as part of the permanent collection of student work. (Author/RK)