Describing some of the current Foxfire activities, this article presents the rationale behind Foxfire's expansion--"Before you start to do anything related to your work with this organization, ask yourself first why a student is not doing it instead. If you don't have a good reason, then go find a student, preferably one who has never done it…

Describes a program in which, once a student is identified as a chronic truant, the skill deficiencies that cause his problems are diagnosed and corrective lessons are begun. (IRT)

In assessing proposals for welfare reform, a key point to consider is the provision made for change once the program has begun. The Supplemental Security Income Program experience illustrates this point. (Author/SE)

Elementary schools that feed students after recess instead of before have reduced student discipline problems and food waste. (IRT)

The I.A.S. approach to employee development requires that one identify the skills employees need, analyze which skills employees possess, and select methods of developing the needed skills. (Author/IRT)

Interviews with 11 teachers, specialists, and administrators focus on development of individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped students. (CL)

To justify school administration support of summer agriculture programs, vocational agriculture teachers must prepare and present detailed plans. The author offers a list of sixteen goals as an example of activities that should be in every vocational agriculture summer program. (MF)

Described is the comprehensive residential program for deaf multihandicapped students at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside. (CL)

The author discusses what she learned about General Education Development (G.E.D.) programs before teaching in one and while teaching in one. (IRT)

The author details differences in programs for emotionally disturbed children among three communities of different size and socioeconomic status. (SBH)

Activities to date under the federal Teacher Centers Law (Public Law 94-482) are described. Opportunities for the submission of new proposals, or rewriting and resubmission of rejected proposals are described. National Education Association interest in these activities is made clear. (MJB)

Described is a zoological program which developed as a remedial effort to meet the needs of a 13-year-old boy with a history of academic failure and emotional withdrawal. (CL)

The article describes a program developed in 1972 in Montgomery County, Maryland to provide daily resource remediation to elementary school aged children with language handicaps. (CL)

GURU is a computer program developed to analyze data generated by open-ended question techniques such as ECHO or other semistructured data collection techniques in which data are categorized. The program provides extensive descriptive statistics and allows extensive flexibility in comparing data. (Author/JKS)

The director of a middle school intramural athletic program describes the process of developing his school's program from a very limited offering with small financial backing to a program involving nineteen activities, a full-time director, and six assistants. (MJB)