A school sponsored program attempts to help young students who have fallen into a particularly difficult situation. (CK)

A school sponsored program attempts to help young students who have fallen into a particularly difficult situation. (CK)

A special 4-H program in a poor, rural community demonstrated that learning can be fun, and that helping children learn can be satisfying. (AN)

A class conducted to broaden the horizons of public school teachers is described. (CK)

A program to involve parents fully in the education of their children is described. (CK)

A teaching experience which involves developing the curriculum from student wishes and a prepared learning environment is described. (CK)

Getting acquainted with participants in this conference. (RA)

Examines the three components which form the basis for designing and offering career transition workshops for employees at Goddard Space Flight Center: structuring support systems, providing cognitive information, and planning. (CT)

Describes planning of workshops for training online user groups including establishment of a committee, choice of theme and format, funding, and publicity arrangements. A list of do's and don't's is included. (RAA)

Describes the content and organization of a readers' workshop, an approach to reading instruction for high school students with poor reading skills that emphasizes the building of connections between students' life experiences and providing a structured, shared reading learning environment. Identifies resources for selecting children's literature.…

Recent attendance at two events hosted at the Channel 4 Television Centre by "Policy Unplugged" (a group styling themselves as policy entrepreneurs) has converted the author to a style of working called the Open Space Conference. Created in the mid-1980s by organizational consultant Harrison Owen, Open Space conferences allow participants to…

In this article, the authors share their experiences facilitating a series of mathematics for parents' workshops (MFP) throughout two and a half years and address the structure, history and development of these workshops. They then analyze how this experiment fits the concept of nonformal adult education and explain how the model of adult…

Marijuana is the number one illicit drug of abuse worldwide and a major public health problem, especially in the younger population. The objective of this article is to update and review the state of the science and treatments available for marijuana dependence based on a pre-meeting workshop that was presented at ISAM 2006. At the workshop,…