To overcome criticisms of gifted program evaluation, a university evaluation team and a public school program worked to develop evaluation instruments and procedures. The experiences of the first year of the cooperative effort are presented to illustrate the issues, problems, and benefits of such an arrangement. (Author/SB)

Presents a definition of career education/CETA coordination and its components (statement of purpose, relationship of career education to the total education system, impact produced, needs of clients, and support of the schools); and describes stages of the coordination process (awareness, exploration, and preparation). (CT)

Presents short descriptions of cooperative education programs for chemistry students at Drexel University, Rochester Institute of Technology, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis. (CS)

Outlines a model for cooperative programming and discusses the roles of school professionals, peers, and the community. (JOW)

Reviews programs sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, a private operating foundation, to combat deterioration of library materials. Research grants, assistance to conservation laboratories, and support for new equipment and tests are supplemented by efforts to establish cooperative programs and establish a national strategy for…

Investigates the current status of and obstacles to effective documentation in the social sciences, stressing the need for international and regional cooperative solutions. (RAA)

The MetaScholar Initiative is a collaborative endeavor to explore the feasibility and utility of scholarly portal services developed in conjunction with Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting technologies. This article describes two projects that the MetaScholar Initiative comprises, as well as accomplishments and findings to date. (AEF)

Describes the development of an international co-publishing project for children's illustrated books in Socialist countries. Discusses an international biennial public exhibition of children's books from socialist countries that is presented by the Biennial of Illustrations, Brastislava (BIB). (NH)

Describes major elements of an extension system for education based on those essential for one in agriculture, as exemplified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service. Like the agricultural system, an educational extension service would be driven by customer needs, employ county agents to facilitate client/service…

Outlines a method of establishing a university/public school partnership that proves beneficial for both institutions. Describes four essential components for effective collaboration. Argues that such collaboration fosters excellence in education. (HB)

Describes goals and objectives of Peer Support Program (PSP) developed through inter-agency collaboration initiatives. Examines characteristics of service delivery and level of consumer satisfaction of parents and youth who have participated in peer support program. Discusses implications for intervention with sexually abused youth and parents of…

Reports on a consortium-based research education seminar program developed by the OHEP Center for Medical Education that presents a yearly research forum in which the best research projects from consortium members are presented by the resident-researchers, who compete for recognition and prize money. Of the 128 presentations to date 25 percent…

Describes two national-level collaborations among urban public universities: Restructuring for Urban Student Success (RUSS) and the Urban Universities Portfolio Project (UUPP). RUSS developed and studied approaches to improving performance and retention among urban college students, particularly first-years. UUPP was designed to enhance…

Presents a model of collaboration between psychologists and the African American church, discussing the connection between African psychology and religion, examining barriers to and strategies for collaboration between psychologists and the African American church, and describing the collaborative model called the African American Counseling Team.…