Noting that a central tenet of the 1996 welfare reform law was that work was the best way to improve the lives of single parents and their children, this fact sheet summarizes research on the impact of parental work on children in families receiving welfare. The fact sheet delineates key research findings from experimental studies of the effects…

The Skyline Career Development Center, Dallas, Texas, combines technical training with academic programs and is organized into 28 career clusters. Community involvement is seen as the prime ingredient and is greatly responsible for 97 percent of the graduating class being fully employed or going on to higher education. (DS)

Due to the decline in occupations in agriculture, South Carolina's Technical Education Center System is providing special school programs to pre-train workers for any industry willing to relocate into the State, or for any expanding industry within the State. (Author/DS)

Discussed the development of Japanese language study in Hawaii, the teaching techniques and educational facilities. (RK)

Now operating in 43 States, the Reading Is FUN-damental'' program stresses motivation (and paperbacks) in developing a love of books. (Editor)

The aim of this study was to observe the dynamics of a socio-psychological process, namely, cohesiveness, occurring among seven-year old pupils organised in groups of five engaged in an improvised drama activity. (Author/RK)

Waiver nurses prove to be a highly motivated group not requiring rigid classroom structure. A source of womanpower well worth saving, in the opinion of Colorado educators. (Editor)

Need to enhance functioning efficiency lead to training program which attempted to broaden empathic understandings of counselors. Evaluations of sessions indicated generally favorable acceptance, need for some revisions. (CJ)

A pilot program at the University of California, Davis, that incorporated skilled nursing facility training into the required curriculum of their primary care internal medicine residency is described. The goal was to increase the residents' knowledge in the care of geriatric patients. (MLW)