Not only one educational style, i.e., Formal 3-R, is right for all students. Alternatives should be offered to ensure that different student needs are met by the school curriculum. A planning/working time line is outlined. (Author/RK)

This brief provides an example of how to create and sustain an e-mentoring community to promote the success of youth with disabilities in school, careers, and other life experiences. Established in 1992, the DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) e-mentoring community may have been the first intentional Internet-based…

Field-tested in libraries nationwide, the 13 strategies in this hands-on book are designed to help librarians create effective and accountable adult literacy programs. These step-by-step assessment tools will help in: identifying and evaluating the skill levels of learners; making program changes based on users' aptitudes; writing thorough and…

In response to the problem of school dropout, a Las Vegas school district initiated a Dropout Prevention Plan, a multi-strategy approach to reduce the number of students dropping out of school. The approaches used included staff development; after-school programs for students; community outreach; and targeted middle school interventions. It was…

Article described the why and hows of an innovative Special Education diploma program, which prepares teachers to work with children who are blind, deaf and mentally retarded or some combination of those handicaps. (Editor/RK)

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Community colleges can offer exciting and satisfying programs for drop-outs, stop-outs, and shoved-outs - if they adapt their traditional procedures creatively. (Editor)

Article presents a profile of associate degree mental health worker programs, considered the mental health worker curricula, and the role of the National Institute of Mental Health in developing manpower needs in mental health. (Author/RK)

In this paper movement (human movement) is being accepted as the content of physical education, the substance with which all experiences are designed. This assumption is fairly conclusively accepted where programs for young children are concerned. (Author)

Article describes a family-centered program of religious education and how it was developed. (Author/RK)

Study of older people focuses on communication with retired people, the finding that there were considerable differences between normal college-age population and the aged population, and a series of recommendations for planning programs for the aged. (Author/RK)

Discusses steps taken by vocational agriculture teachers in revising the agriculture curriculum in Westwood High School, Mesa, Arizona. (SB)

Describes program development in response to student survey of interest areas, and how entire staff and student body participated in the seminar sessions. (CJ)

Innovative program aids counselors to ensure that students' activities are congruent with their professional goals. (CJ)

Article describes some of the conditions that must exist before individualized reading can become a reality in the classrooms. (Author)