Comprehensive model recommended for training in apprenticeable trades. (Editor)

From an administrative view, reports an experience in implementing the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) technique at a residential treatment setting for children. (MP)

The grievance data analysis model discussed here provides postsecondary administrators with an effective aid for managing institutional policy problems, problem subunits within an institution, and faculty grievance processing. (Author/IRT)

CHALLENGE, the gifted education program in the Kingsville (Texas) Independent School District, is described. It is explained that the program follows the J. Renzulli "Enrichment Triad Model". Screening, course content, and program administration are considered. (CL)

Internal management development programs are effective especially for teaching management skills to women because of women's position on the learning curve. (Author)

Six problems in developing effective career education programs for gifted, creative, and talented children are identified and possible solutions are presented. (PHR)

A model is presented to facilitate the movement of children from a residential center to community schools. The purpose of the model is explained to break the reintegration process into incremental steps which are expected to make the child's adjustment to a new school situation easier and more successful. (Author)

Describes the Arizona Consortium for Individualized Learning (ACIL) program, which has been implemented in 52 Arizona schools in grades K-6. (JG)

For several decades, the relative importance of process as opposed to task has been an issue in the literature. This study of the Model Cities program examines the relationship between program outcomes and the process and task orientations of program planners. (Author)

Describes the most easily achieved and most difficult to achieve aspects of the model, along with what was possible only for some schools, and what was most disillusioning to the leaders. (IRT)

Fault Tree Analysis is an operations research technique used to analyse the most probable modes of failure in a system, in order to redesign or monitor the system more closely in order to increase its likelihood of success. (Author)

Challenges the "reductive" two-phase description of Writing across the Curriculum programs. Notes that Phase I has usually been described as expressivist, while Phase II has been described as social constructionist. Suggests that this inattention to intellectual traditions leaves the movement vulnerable to attack. Proposes an…

Military child care has not always been a model system. The services were inconsistent, many programs had serious deficiencies thus were failing to meet basic health and safety standards, and caregivers were poorly trained and poorly paid. However, in the late 1980's, the Government Accounting Office exposed the seriousness of the situation.…

A logic model, also called a conceptual model and theory-of-change model, is a visual representation of how a program is expected to "work." It relates resources, activities, and the intended changes or impacts that a program is expected to create. Typically, logic models are diagrams or flow charts with illustrations, text, and arrows that…