Suggests that European apprenticeship programs are successful in preventing juvenile delinquency and promoting effective vocational education. (DW)

Discusses organizational change strategies that school districts can adopt to help all students achieve at high levels. Provides a chart classifying organizational strategies. Draws implications for superintendents using these strategies. (PKP)

As the nation increasingly focuses on children's readiness for school, attention must be given to making schools and communities ready for children. This means confronting the polemics raised by reform efforts, including a nascent early care and education movement, a family support movement, a school-linked service-integration movement, health and…

Two case studies, China and Synanon, reveal common features in the process of integrating the young into the world of work and civic responsibility through intensive feedback, the work ethic, geographic mobility, role models, and group atmosphere. (Author/DW)