Wichita built facilities to support its first-rate aircraft maintenance technician program. Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (Editor)

An in-school mediation strategy focused on teaching children to watch television critically and to recognize the prosocial content of commercial television programs. Changes in children's attitudes and understanding that resulted from the strategy are discussed. (PP)

A national survey identified innovative physical fitness programs for older adults at colleges and universities. Survey results concerning program area, type of activities, target population, and whether programs focus on the healthy elderly or on rehabilitation are reported. (PP)

Responsive Parenting is a program designed to use parents in helping teach other parents to apply a behavior analysis approach in managing the behavior of their children. A description and evaluation of the adaptations for single-parents are discussed. Guidelines for program development and implementation are provided. (Author/RL)

Contends that writing projects, especially the National Writing Project, exemplify a promising orientation toward learning and knowing. Explains the essence of successful writing projects--teacher centered activities, mutual support among teachers, and teachers' writing. (RL)

Two positions are given related to the teaching of thermodynamics to freshmen college students. Arguments include why it should be taught and what the goals should be, as well as why it should not be included in the freshmen coursework and where it should be taught. (SA)

Provides a guide for setting up learning centers in easily handled stages. Discusses six stages in the development of individualized instruction through the use of learning centers and offers specific guidelines for using this technique for facilitating instruction. (FL)

Advantages of a full year program of teacher preparation over more traditional approaches include total immersion in a professional sequence, allowance for extended and varied field experiences, and greater flexibility in scheduling programs and activities. (MB)

Through a questionnaire sent to 24 Texas community/junior college presidents to obtain data that would establish a better community college teacher education program, several specific preparation program topics and an internship program were endorsed. The questionnaire is included in the article. (JG)

Presents a study evaluating the effect of reading intervention with children at risk of reading failure. Explains the program spanned 10 weeks and emphasized word building and phonics skills. States there is a need for continual support as opposed to a short intervention. Includes references. (CMK)

Describes the Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP), focusing on the involvement of the Corcoran High School (Syracuse, New York). Discusses how a school and its students can select a PCPP project to support. Identifies the different parts of a PCPP project and includes an example project. (CMK)

Finds that eighth grade students in Facing History and Ourselves classrooms show increases in relationship maturity and decreases in racist attitudes and self-reported fighting behavior relative to comparison students. Reports that the gains made by Facing History students in moral reasoning and in civic attitudes and participation were not…

Focuses on a mapping exercise based on the principles of Paolo Freire. It was used with non-student Latino North Carolina farmworkers to engage them in learning about health beliefs, behaviors, and injury prevention. Provides background information on the farmworkers' lives and the use of the mapping exercises. (CMK)

Focuses on the women's studies program at Kansas City (Kansas) Community College. Discusses the use of guest speakers and service learning in women's studies in order to connect theory with praxis. Addresses the logistics of service learning and the opportunity for the faculty to perform part-time work in the community. (CMK)

Provides background information on the topic of service learning and discusses the two variations of service learning: (1) providing charitable services; and (2) engaging students in political organizing and social advocacy. Focuses on the Westside Outreach Center and the Urban Citizen Project at the University of Colorado (Denver). (CMK)