The Primary Education Improvement Project was launched in Nigeria in 1971. It seeks to upgrade educational standards through the provision of new instructional materials and mobile teacher trainers. This report describes project background, strategies, problems, outcomes, and future prospects. (SJL)

Discusses a workshop held to promote young farmer programs in Illinois. Describes how the workshop was planned and conducted. Provides evaluation information in two areas: (1) teacher evaluation of time allocation for workshop activities and (2) overall participant evaluation. Ninety percent of the workshop participants planned to organize young…

Reviews the importance of assessment in placing students in two-year college composition courses and describes the development of the objective English Qualifying Examination used at Northern Virginia Community College. Includes sample test items. (MKM)

Describes field oriented teacher internship program for elementary education majors and discusses results of a questionnaire answered by cooperating teachers in this program. Results of the study provide direction for planning in-service courses for social studies teachers. (KC)

With the help of the music, physical education, and art teachers, two third-grade classes wrote, scored, and produced an original operetta in a five-month interdisciplinary classroom project. The process is outlined and recommended by the authors for almost any grade level. (SJL)

The Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP), Title VII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), is planned to put employment and training back in private business through grants to employers for on-the-job training programs, with private industry councils as links between business and industry and the federal government. (MF)

This article describes the inception and objectives of Project LEAD (League for Educational Administrator Development), an in-service consortium of school districts, county offices of education, institutions of higher education, and professional associations in the Sacramento, California area. Results of LEAD's in-service priorities assessment are…

The occupationally oriented industrial arts program at Lee's Summit Senior High School, Missouri, offers general shop exploratory courses in multiple-activity laboratories at the ninth grade level, leading to unit general laboratory programs in grades 10 through 12 in drafting, wood, metals, basic electricity/electronics, and graphic…

The development and use of a systematic preservice academic adviser training program is described in this article. The activities involved in working through each of the steps in the systems model approach used to develop the resulting program are recounted. (Author)

Career education in Colorado is summarized in terms of the State's career education concept and related terms; activities of the State executive committee, State board of education, and State advisory council for career education; standards for eligibility; and current practices. (TA)

After a brief comment on consumer education as mandated by the State of Illinois, and the resulting teaching strategies, an inservice program for Chicago teachers is described which focuses on people-to-people communications between school teachers and influential leaders in the areas of business, labor, and government. (SH)

Describes the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing experimental program, initiated to tap a new pool of potential nurses, which resulted in a better distribution of nurses throughout the State and alleviated other problems associated with level of education and enrollment. (Editor/TA)

Details the history of California's experience with large-scale writing assessment. Describes the introduction, development, and scoring of the California Assessment Program, later renamed the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS). Discusses controversies over removal of certain writing prompts and objections to CLAS. Notes that funding for…

Describes the WI/SE Choice Scholarship program for non-traditional adult students offered by Wichita State University and Sedgwick County to encourage recruitment and enrollment of adult students. (TE)

The University of Trondheim's Norwegian Institute of Technology has redesigned its training program for deans and department heads to enhance the jobs' attractiveness, provide training opportunities, reduce problems of re-integration into the academic career, and introduce professional development talks by department heads with all staff. (MSE)