Described the Indian Education Act, designed to improve the quality of Indian education while offering programs not usually available in schools Indians attend. (Author/RK)

The Minneapolis Urban Arts Program preaches and practices two ideas: The arts are basic to education; they're for all students, not just the talented. (Editor)

Describes a science program for high school students designed to increase student interest in science, to encourage them in the further study of science discipline, and to interest them in occupational careers in science. (Author/RK)

Training people to become self-sufficient doers instead of remaining passive watchers is the aim of the Environmental Learning Center in Minnesota's far north woods. (Editor)

Model programs funded under the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) and administered by the Office of Education Women's Program staff are intended to reach girls and women from low-income and middle-age groups those from American-Indian, Asian- and Pacific-American, black, and Spanish-speaking backgrounds, and those from rural, urban, and…

When asked some difficult questions in a recent interview, the director of OE's Office of Career Education responded with incisive and refreshingly forthright answers. (Editor)

As in the project after which it was modeled, a Wisconsin program finds that volunteers can be fine teachers of exceptional children. (Editor)

Giving a child the chance to select and keep a book for her or his very own is the Federal Inexpensive Book Distributions Program's strategy for stimulating an interest in reading. (Editor)

Using a new self-instruction approach'' and tapes from government sources, a college can now afford to offer courses in nearly every foreign language.'' (Editor/SP)

The second of three articles on the "individualized education program" concept set forth in P.L. 94-142 points out the importance of teacher training in making the idea work. (Editor)

Because students don't learn if teachers can't teach, the Bay Area Writing Project is getting teachers fired up about writing and the teaching of it. (Editor)

When questions about Title 1 ESEA went unanswered, Congress directed NIE to make a comprehensive study of compensatory education and how to improve it. (Editor)

An authority on child psychology and social change describes how he and associates at Yale put their theories to a test in New Haven's ghetto and brought a school back to life. Discusses project funding, problems encountered, how these problems were resolved, parent involvement, curriculum changes, and the federal government's role. (CT)

In Bossier Parish, Louisiana, a part of the bayou country is used as a classroom and laboratory for the district's schools. Through collecting live specimens and asking questions of the tour guide instructor, students (grades K-12) learn about science and the environment and enjoy the nature center's recreation facilities. (CT)

Describes the Richmond (Virginia) City School Board's six-year plan for improving its educational system. Describes the goal-setting process, outlines the goals, and provides a brief description and background of the strategies to be used to achieve these goals. Financial implications also are examined. (CT)