Discusses the characteristics of the Rensselaer design educational programs which emphasize the use of computer-oriented laboratories and linear algebraic equations as analytical tools. Effects of the Sloan Foundation grant are studied. (CC)

Discusses the necessity of three kinds of educational programs in engineering to develop the full potential of three groups of biomedical practitioners such as the generalist, the specialist, and the technician. Includes outlined procedures for implementing each program. (CC)

The first article describes students' activities with tiling patterns and tessellations; the second discusses the use of balances and weights as an approach to number concepts. (DT)

Specific programs, representing a variety of philosophical and curricular approaches, that have promise for various groups of slow learners are described by their directors. (LS)

A Kansas City community college offers a conglomerate of skill training programs without cost to the people who most need them. (Author)

With the aid of technology, a teaching-learning situation geared toward the student as an individual has been under development for several years at the Music Library Laboratory Center of John J. Duggan Junior High School, Springfield, Massachusetts. (Author)

Patterns of equilateral triangles, squares, rectangles, and regular pentagons are provided for students to use in building models of polyhedra. (DT)

Includes brief descriptions of laboratory products completed or under development. (RT)

Eleven articles examine the contributions being made by the Regional Educational Laboratories in developing and testing innovative learning materials. (MM)