Defines the existing model of cooperative legal services offered in a regional service agency. The purpose of the service is to give legal opinion on topics of immediate concern, to review legal implications of school policies, and to provide information on legal issues and trends affecting all client schools. (Author/IRT)

Describes a computerized regional information system developed jointly by 18 counties in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia for use in the planning of vocational education programs. (JG)

Considers the application of purposive cooperative structures to guide community colleges in functioning effectively with other community schools and agencies. Provides examples of Charette, Delphi, and Community Forum models and examines established cooperative structures at Lane, Clackamus, and Denver Community Colleges. (CM)

New Jersey and Washington have developed novel and different approaches to supporting faculty development by bringing faculty members, including many senior members, together to work on revitalizing the teaching experience. The program models are described, and the reasons they have been effective are explored. (Author/MSE)

Twenty-three self-contained single concept physics demonstration packages were designed and constructed at Lamar University (Texas). Each package was available for loan to pre-college science instructors in southeastern Texas in the spring and summer of 1987. During the spring, three high school physics teachers used the demonstrations and…

At the request of General Electric-Utica (GE), the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome and the Mohawk Valley Regional Education Center for Economic Development have developed a program to train GE software development personnel. GE is involved in the development of aerospace electronic equipment and related software…

The Music Technology and Resource Center at Northern Colorado University's School of Music provides students access to advanced technology in music recording, composition, and performance; allows exploration of the use of computers and interactive computer technology in teaching music, and serves as a resource for music educators and students…

This volume contains one paper defining the initial operating parameters of the Research and Development Exchange (RDx) and four of a series of papers contracted for the program. The overview paper touches on a variety of topics of continuing concern: the general problems toward which the RDx effort is directed, understandings affecting the design…