Project WetKids (www.projectwetkids.net) provides wetland, environmental, estuary, and watershed experiences with local scientists, engineers, and naturalists to Pascagoula, Mississippi students and their families. Extensive activities provide participants: (1) real world, locally relevant science-based events; (2) meaningful scientific…

This paper presents background, implementation, and feasibility findings associated with planning and conducting an after-school intervention program in an alternative education setting designed to prevent the initiation and escalation of violence and substance abuse among urban African American youth at high risk for life-long problem behaviors.…

Our urban-located land grant institution has long been committed to engaged research, teaching, and service. This paper describes efforts to articulate and implement a strategic urban land grant vision that places urban/metropolitan engagement at the center of our institution's "urban age" future. We describe intentional and broad-based efforts in…

The evolution of several interrelated myths reflects a combination of misinterpretation of statistics, the commendable intention of ensuring that bias and prejudice do not play roles in the provision of services to underrepresented populations of gifted students, and misapplication of programming options for gifted students. Separately, these…

A discussion of a new program in Great Britain, the adult literacy program. BBC broadcasts along with tutorial support, classes, and schemes for individual support are detailed. (HB)

A discussion of the evolution and recent changes in educational media in the British Commonwealth countries. (HB)

The author defines protocol materials, discusses their development, then examines how the initiation of U.S. Office of Education (USOE) support modified the original definition. (The USOE Master Coordinate System is included as an appendix.) (JA)

In this digest identification and development of leadership skills in gifted and talented students are examined. Leadership is analyzed and its scope expanded from qualities of one who leads to a more complex view of how a person exerts influence. Conceptions of task-oriented versus relationship-oriented leaders are considered. Ways in which…

G.E.T.I. is Groupe d'Etudes et de Travaux Interdisciplinaires Group for Interdisciplinary Work and Studies). (RL)

Mr. Fontanet is the French minister of Education. (RL)

The experience of the Schools Council Resource Centre Project, 1970-73 (Great Britain) is examined in context of recent international publication on the subject. (Author)

A description of the physical layout of the resource centre is given, together with the various services it provides for teachers, and a brief comment on some of the ideas behind the project. (Author)