The primary purpose of this paper is to describe strategies for enhancing the health behavior of adolescents and their families through increasing the healthfulness of the media environment, particularly radio or the music industry. A second goal is to briefly describe research that would enhance understanding of the healthfulness of the media…

This paper recommends a research and action agenda for the federal Office of Special Education Programs in examining instructional technology for individuals with disabilities, particularly as those activities relate to "system" change. Staff development programs and curriculum reform are stressed as concrete components of system change.…

This paper identifies curriculum and instructional issues in secondary school programs for students with mild disabilities, describes some promising lines of ongoing research, and recommends long and short term research, development, and demonstration activities for support by the federal Office of Special Education Programs. The first section…