Opposing extension education within the agricultural education department, the author states that the agricultural education curriculum would not be appropriate for persons not in agricultural extension; program focus should be on preparing vocational agricultural teachers, not on other options; and department organization and administration would…

Presents ten critical points that one parent considers when visiting and making judgments about a day care center and its program. (BB)

To investigate the claim that the Statistics Attitude Survey (SAS) contains a number of achievement-related items rather than attitude-related items, the SAS and the Attitudes Toward Statistics (ATS) were administered to 280 introductory statistics students. Results showed similarities between the tests. (Author/GDC)

A teacher shares her experience with the Napa County Follow Through Project, describing effects on her as a professional and as a person, effects on her peers, school, and students. (MT)

Outlines a number of barriers in behavioral consultation, including the lack of standardization of consultation, lack of specific training of consultants, little or no consultee (teacher) training, problems surrounding target behavior identification, and external constraints to consultation. Each area is described along several dimensions that…

Interviews with 13 educators who have been deeply involved with differentiated staffing, career ladder programs, or both provided the data for this analysis of why differentiated staffing didn't work, how the two concepts differ, why career ladders are currently popular, and how likely the career ladder concept is to succeed. (PGD)

Suggests that the single most important common denominator of the various types of self-help groups examined may be that the role of the person who has already lived through the experience is critical for helping others. (Author/AM)

A survey was conducted among 139 elementary public, private, parochial, charter, and home school teachers to help Kingman Museum in Battle Creek, Michigan re-establish educational programming with area schools after having been closed for two years. The purpose of the study was to identify museum programs that teachers are most likely to use, the…

In April 1996 survey examined issues that many educators face when facilitating outdoor adventure programs that include persons with disabilities. The survey was returned by 176 of the 487 program directors listed in the 1992 Directory of Experiential Therapy and Adventure-Based Counseling Programs. The great majority of respondents were persons…

In anticipation of the 35th anniversary of Project Head Start, the National Head Start Association (NHSA) launched a national initiative to discover how Head Start can best serve children and families in the new millennium. A series of hearings and open forums were conducted throughout the country in 1999, along with a special session featuring…

Discusses synchronic induction", a new way for executives to analyze a plan for elusive and intangible qualitative factors crucial to the success of large scale programs of human resource and community development, as has been developed at Columbia University's Teachers College. (Author)

Concludes that remedial reading students have a positive view of their ability to read and enjoy participating in the remedial program and that their classroom peers have no negative attitudes toward the remedial readers or program. (FL)

Presents lists of questions that parents, teachers, and administrators can use to assess their own readiness for a parent involvement program. Outlines a process for successful program development. (SJL)

A study determined the levels of treatment satisfaction among community mental health services recipients and if perceptions of treatment satisfaction were the same for both the recipients and the providers. The recipients, mothers of children treated at the unit, were satisfied with the treatment, but the providers perceived their satisfaction as…