Based on premise that child entering school has already been "drug educated" to some extent, program is aimed at parents of preschoolers as well as at all levels, from kindergarten through grade 12. Presented at American School Health Association, Philadelphia, 1969. (CJ)

Describes a yard, garden, and home maintenance program designed to enable handicapped students to become employable workers. (SB)

Teachers and researchers collaborating to implement and evaluate a pilot programme seems straightforward enough. However, unless appropriate steps are taken early to select appropriate staff and encourage shared definitions of the project's purpose, differences in understanding, as well as different priorities, values, and allegiances may…

A pilot program in respiratory therapeutics that includes a development and implementation model is reported. Its prerotational and postrotational evaluations and significant improvement in competency areas related to clinical skill areas are described. (Author/MLW)

Various elements of the Runnymede (England) Adult Education Institute's Flexistudy program are explored. They include student characteristics, academic achievement, tutor/student relationship, financial arrangements, and administrative organization. (CT)

An experimental program in Calculus I at the University of Southern California (USC) is described. It is concluded that it is possible to give a meaningful program in which computer use is incorporated. The intent is to set up all USC calculus courses with some use of microcomputers. (MP)

Reports on four pilot studies which investigate the vice principalship role in high schools and its relationship to school organizational context. Examines school environmental factors as well as the alliance-building and maintenance activities of vice principals. (Author/ML)

Technical assistance given to facilitate implementation of continuous progress programs in a Georgia elementary school system is discussed in terms of long-range goals for staff development and general objectives for a continuous progress model and its mainstreaming program. (DS)

Reports on a pilot project which used an imaginary tour of an Italian city as the basis for conversation exercises. (AM)

What qualities in teachers do student teachers feel are more important than others? Do student teachers agree as to the varying importance of these qualities? This pilot study conducted in Fall semester, 1975 at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale attempted to answer these questions. (Author)

Describes an innovative national program, the Child Development Associate Program, designed to prepare a new category of child care worker--the Child Development Associate--and how this program is being implemented in Hawaii. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the interaction between a model's head turn and an observer's perception of being looked at, as a function of the model's visible eye. (Author/RK)

Used group and individual interviews to examine the information needs and sources of London parents of young children. Found that the areas in which information was needed by the majority of parents were children's and parents' health, child care and development, schools, behavior, careers, education, and training. Popular sources of information…

School support teams--external groups of teachers, pupil services personnel, and reform experts--assist schools as they plan, implement, and improve their schoolwide Title I programs. Team members of the Texas School Support Initiative, begun as a 1994-95 pilot project involving 12 schools, learned the value of building trust, starting with…