Summarizes impressions and insights gained during a United States-Australia professorial exchange program. Discusses passports, visas, immigration procedures, travel tips, foreign cultures, banking, insurance, driving, prescriptions, and protection of possessions left behind such as a house and cars. Provides addresses for more information on…

A canal barge trip involving a group of 11- to 14-year-olds with moderate learning difficulties provided opportunities for leisure education, social skill learning, and information gathering and recording tasks. (CL)

To test ways of predicting how efficiently visually impaired children learn travel skills, a criteria checklist of spatial skills was developed for close-body space, local space, and geographical/travel space. Comparison was made between predictors of efficient learning including subjective ratings of teachers, personal qualities and factors of…

Twenty-seven adults with mild to severe mental retardation were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: classroom instruction, community instruction, and facility-grounds instruction. Treatment procedures used with all three treatment groups resulted in significant improvement though procedures used with the facility-grounds group…

The international man lives abroad because he wants to; works in one of the newest branches of any occupational field; can divorce himself successfully from the biases of his native country; is fluent in at least two languages; and one of his most valuable assets is an insensitive stomach. (Author/SJ)

A guide to Detroit dining. (Author)

Reviews various kinds of thick-film lubricants and thin-film lubricants which may be useful under the extreme conditions encountered in space travel. (PR)

Graphic descriptions of Detroit from the Open City and the underground press to gourmet restaurants. (MF)

Relates the impressions of a team of community college educators who visited the People's Republic of China with regard to the people, the Great Wall, the educational scene, science and technology, the spirit of cooperation, and the work ethic. Includes excerpts of reports from other group members. (MB)

An English teacher describes how she made international travel a part of her continuing development as a teacher. She has made her lifelong dream an important influence in her classroom by applying for funding and organizing group travel with students.

This article contains excerpts from "The Lewis and Clark Journals: An Epic of Discovery, The Abridgment of the Definitive Nebraska Edition," published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2003. Editor Gary E. Moulton chose a few daily entries from the journals to highlight the expedition from May 14-October 12, 1804.

There is an underlying assumption that regardless of student ethnicity, socio-economic status, or any other variable, elite, independent schools by mission and design are effective at producing successful students. This would cause some to conclude that all students enrolled in elite, independent schools perform similarly on all academic measures.…

There are many valid reasons for participating in an educators' tour of Germany. It is a nation that has a legacy of literary and political thought that has had a profound impact on the evolution of Western civilization. Germany has offered the world artistic and scientific genius and been the source of devastating war and unprecedented genocide.…