Survey results have demonstrated a need for the integration of economics education in the total public school curriculum. (CJ)

Reports on school programs throughout the United States that are devoted to fostering a link between the young and the old. Lists six principles for operating such a program. (FL)

Describes a three-dimensional model and its application to program content analysis and deployment of staff. (Author/WD)

Recreation programs should provide experiences which feed and care for the indispensable human impulse to play. Campus recreation programs need to tinker with traditional formats and provide program alternatives. (CJ)

Describes two environmental educational programs for third graders and sixth graders. (Author/DB)

During the last few decades, the author and his colleagues have developed an instructional framework for infusing thinking into content instruction in every subject and at every grade level. In thinking-based learning, teachers explicitly teach students thinking strategies and important habits of mind and then give students opportunities to apply…

The orientation program of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education at The University of Georgia for nontraditional students has two primary goals. The first goal is to provide information that will help students make a successful transition to college; second, to provide opportunities for students to meet each other and campus personnel in an…

A project is described that seeks to incorporate broader understanding of the humanities into a teacher education program. The project is based on the assumption that the study of philosophy, history, literature, and other basic disciplines of the humanities will help prospective teachers to develop interpretive, normative, and critical…

The purpose of this document is to provide information identifying the location of and approaches followed by several educational agencies implementing career education program services and activities in Iowa. These programs, services, and activities represent the efforts of various educational agencies to incorporate the concepts of career…

Discusses the benefits of behavior modeling, examines the Behavior Modeling Learning Staircase (which illustrates the situational and generic skills that can be developed in a supervisory training program), and describes the role of the trainer. (CT)

Identifies the general principles underlying the Council of Writing Program Administrators' summer workshop, and the ways in which they are currently being applied. (HTH)

Describes the Meaningful Other Person (MOP) program instituted at a North Carolina ninth grade center that reduced the dropout rate by 50 percent. (FL)

Reviews concepts related to education and production and the practice of combining education and productive work in schools from a Latin American point of view. After clarifying the range of programs that might be classified under the heading of education and productive work as well as education with production, experiments on which reports are…

Describes a program for training people for working with word processing and computer terminal equipment for augmented secretarial roles in the automated office. Outlines selection criteria and major program components. Discusses certification and placement, reporting placement success over a three-year period. (JM)

About 50 students from six Boston area high schools participated in the summer Massachusetts Pre-College Engineering Program (MassPep) at the Northeastern University campus in Boston. The program is designed to guide talented minority students toward college and technical fields. A description of the program is provided. (JN)