Describes the Southeast-Bayview Mental Health Center Geriatric Services Unit, which provides a comprehensive mental health program for the elderly of San Francisco. The program emphasis is on crisis intervention, with reliance on home visits and follow-up services as well as screening and referral. (JAC)

The University of Florida's 5-year teacher education program--developed over 4 years and adopted in fall 1984--requires deeper academic study, more clinical and field work, more education coursework, and more comprehensive student and program evaluation than the previous traditional program. (MCG)

Based on the responses to a questionnaire of resource teachers, regular education teachers, and principals, most of the skills typically associated with consultation were determined to be necessary for resource teachers. In addition, resource teachers were rated moderately skilled as consultants. Results suggest that educators' expectations may be…

The Duke University Precollege Program, Summer Residential Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youths, the By-Mail and Computer Programs are reviewed. These offerings allow brilliant young students to plan a multi-summer program beginning in the summer prior to grade 8 and culminating in the senior year of high school. (Author/CL)

Calls for the revitalization and reform of developmental studies programs in postsecondary education. Compares practices of the 1960s and 1970s with those needed in the 1980s. Cites recommendations of the Dallas County Community College District's Developmental Studies Task Force for reaffirmation and commitment to developmental education. (DMM)

A multi-element cross-age tutoring program involved handicapped adolescents as tutors of elementary school handicapped children in areas of reading, language arts, and mathematics. Program evaluation results suggested that the program can be readily implemented in public school districts, and that it is effective in enhancing scholastic…

Presents simple methods for calculating the costs and benefits of training, consulting, and other human resource development interventions in a variety of settings. (JOW)

Discusses an approach to planning that is necessary if management development is to be successful. (JOW)

Data demonstrate that the majority of persons in residential facilities for people with mental retardation participate in daytime programing. State institution residents were less likely to have daytime programs than residents of community-based living arrangements. Resident and facility characteristics relating to probability of participation and…

Despite a favorable nationwide evaluation of school nutrition programs, budget cuts have forced 3,000 schools to shut down their lunch programs. The American School Food Service Association has organized an effective campaign to forestall additional cuts and reestablish program support. (MLF)

A private school administrator describes qualities of effective gifted programs that require minimal funding and suggests ways to ensure program success (such as promoting community support, using elective minicourses as enrichment, and allowing students to share course development responsibilities). (CL)

A private multinational school in Columbia established programs focusing on math and language arts enrichment for gifted elementary students. Student selection approaches feature multiple criteria and the cultural mix of the student body. (CL)

At the State University of New York at Buffalo researchers have developed a method designed to eliminate the disadvantages, but to retain and improve the advantages of unit teaching. A large Computer-Based Resource Unit coded to students' individual characteristics and objectives facilitates teacher decision-making. (Author/ER)

An evaluation of three staffing patterns (county/State, multicounty/State, and county/multicounty/State) used in extension programs is presented based on clientele perceptions of its effectiveness. The results of the study indicate that staffing patterns were not crucial to the clientele as long as their needs were met. (EC)