A survey of community colleges found that few support services were available for part-time faculty and appropriate plans for selecting, orienting, training, servicing, and supervising them had to be made. (Author/RK)

Community Quest is one of the most innovative projects in secondary curriculum and teacher education in Hawaii, and it allows students the opportunity to become involved in community-centered curriculum. (Author/RK)

Author reviews Student Use of Unscheduled Time,'' by Walter J. Foley, Gordon C. Harr, and Larry Smiley (Iowa Educational Information Center), and Comparing Block Scheduling and Traditional Scheduling on Student Achievement and Attitudes,'' by Adrian P. Van Mondrans, James L. Schott, and Denny G. French (paper presented at the convention of the…

Describes Pope John Central High School in Elgin, Nebraska, one of the most innovative secondary schools in the state. (CB)

Describes a plan that overcomes two serious problems of year-round schools: (1) the difficulty of providing individualized continuous instruction and (2) parental rebellion. (Author)

Papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German, Chicago, Illinois, November 25-28, 1971. (DS)

Discusses what modular or flexible scheduling is and evaluates its advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls. Includes abstracts of eleven documents that provide additional information from implemented programs and from various experiences and points of view of teacher, parents, and students. (RB)

Comments on educational reforms instituted at a Brooklyn high school including flexible modular scheduling, cyclical programing learning for mastery, and independent study. (JF)

A checklist is provided to evaluate the school environment as experienced by the child. A selected list of films, books, and pamphlets for the teacher is included. (DR)

Effects of varying the usual biology-chemistry course sequence were studied by comparing students' scores on the Natural Science Reading Test of the American College Test (ACT). Results showed that it made little difference whether college preparatory students at two New Orleans (Louisiana) high schools took chemistry before biology or vice versa.…

An approach to campus planning and renewal during declining enrollment is described. The process uses computer programing to integrate seven factors: building suitability to program, schedule, existing commitments, cost, effect on general use spaces, campus planning compatibility, and disturbance of current assignments of units not in the study.…

An economical computerized system, developed for producing the annual schedule of monthly assignments for medical house officers, is described. This program can generate schedules that conform to the individual preferences of the house officers while meeting the requirements of the residency program. (Author/MLW)