Quality afterschool programs offer participants productive ways to spend the crucial afterschool hours--whether these hours are between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on school days, during weekends, or before school--that otherwise might be spent in unsupervised and potentially harmful activities. Also, afterschool programs help provide additional support to…

The author describes a program in which college business students were placed in a consultative relationship with a small businessman, to provide the student with an opportunity to put his course knowledge to work while still under faculty guidance and benefit the businessman at the same time. (AG)

Discusses the course offerings in pure color chemistry at two universities and the three main aspects of study: dyestuff chemistry, color measurement, and color application. Indicates that there exists a constant challenge to ingenuity in the subject discipline. (CC)

Explores the avowed goals of academic programs which have been termed Black Studies" and examines their content, methods, resources, and assessment processes. (RJ)

Traces the development of a military training course in basic electronics which could serve as a model in any educational field. (Editor/SB)

Reports data from the Purdue Consumer Education Study which provide a picture of the organization and scope of the national consumer education effort outside the schools. (Editor)

While the study, based on usable questionnaire returns from 225 counselor education programs, provides evidence of many efforts toward program differentiation, there remains a substantial lack of uniformity in preparation background of elementary school counselors graduating from preparation programs across the country. (Author)

A program description of a two-year course in environmental management at the Washington Park Horticulture Education Center, Cleveland, Ohio. (GB)

Discusses theories and innovations that have developed the content of industrial arts on the secondary school level. Program name, program administrator, and his address are given for 26 innovative programs. (GB)

The scope and sequence of industrial arts collegiate undergraduate programs are developed. (Author/GB)

Describes a continuing comprehensive care program to train medical personnel to care for ambulatory patients. (Editor/IR)

An innovative curriculum where processing of materials, energy and information form a new base for industrial arts. (Editor)

Describes a five year research project, undertaken by the U.S. Army at Guadalupe, Arizona, which used operant conditioning procedures in community development activities. The project sought "to determine environmental variables affecting individual and group behavior and, once these variables were identified, "to evolve a behavioral repertoire in…