The Conceptual Curriculum Network is a model for curriculum planning that identifies essential aspects of curriculum planning, indicates flow within the planning process, and explains the interrelationship of essential aspects of the planning. (Author/IRT)

Some questions about the relationship between program evaluation and forecasting are raised. Contrasting the two fields in terms of mind-set, purpose, problems, advantages, and use shows that although their modes of inquiry are indeed very different in many ways, there is interdependence between the two in several areas. (Author/JAZ)

The Networking and Evaluation Team (University of Washington) developed a model to help agencies coordinate plans for students moving from one program to the other. Field testing and evaluation of the model have been positive. A sample strategy outline is included. (Author/CL)

The article traces the initial development of respite care in the 1970s to a variety of creative urban and rural program models found in the United States by the early 1980s. Implications for advocacy, funding, and further research indicate the growing need for and acceptance of this essential family support system. (Author/CL)

Reverberating aspirations in the unfolding dimensions of cyberspace are our inevitable future. Being a professional practitioner requires a good deal of wisdom, a necessity in weighing and choosing among the inevitable choices one's practice presents. The steps along a path to wisdom, according to B. L. Visotaky, require exposure to varying…

A design method for information retrieval systems, based on a modelling technique, and derived from the general objectives and tasks set for the system is described. (12 references) (SJ)

A copy of the program is available from the second author at the Department of Psychology, LSUNO-Lakefront, New Orleans, Louisiana 70122. (Authors/CB)

Part 1 of a continued article. (WB)

Proposes a model in which he interrelates research and theories to conceptualize motivational processes occurring within each of three levels (organization, group integration, and personal) common to Extension programming. (Editor)

The results of a preschool education program implemented in 19 Philadelphia schools and designed to break the vicious circles of poverty in urban ghettos are examined. (CK)