Establishing a scouting program for handicapped students involves determining student interest, securing leadership, determining the extent of integration, and selecting and relating activities to the school curriculum. (CL)

Twenty-five suggestions are presented for consideration when describing, defining, and assessing learning disabled adults; when designing appropriate instructional and support services for these individuals; and when planning related research. Implications are discussed for elementary and secondary level educators, as well as for those designing…

A physics professor and father of three gifted children started a summer enrichment math program featuring microcomputers. Computer Related Enriched and Technologically Inspired Viable Education (CREATIVE) was so successful that it was taught to neighboring teachers and expanded to other subjects and age groups. (CL)

A school superintendent describes the process by which a school district investigated, planned, and implemented with local funds a special program for gifted students, grades K through six. Decisions regarding program organization, staff selection, inservice training, and curriculum development for the Murfreesboro Exploration Responsibility…

Provides a four-step plan for creating a new training department: (1) Lay a strong foundation; (2) manage expectations; (3) make quality the highest priority; and (4) build relationships. (JOW)

Andersen Consulting Education's Community of Practice initiative is organized into interest groups that explore issues and share knowledge about a topic. The groups meet to focus on areas such as motivation, demographics, and problem-based learning. The topics have a direct impact on the learning products created by the firm. (JOW)

This paper turns away from Web-based learning content and addresses a universal concern of technology-based learning, namely, program implementation. Without the necessary attention to curriculum alignment, implementation planning and support, Web-based learning initiatives can fall victim to competing priorities. Here, we present the ATLAS model…

The American Library Association encourages public libraries to extend their services to people in jails and detention centers, but there is little research that shows exactly how many libraries do so. Research shows that 54% of juveniles arrested are not sent to residential facilities but instead receive court ordered probation into an Intensive…

This paper explores the following questions related to family literacy programs: How is family literacy linked with family literacy programs? What are the theoretical frameworks supporting the various models educators and researchers are using in their pedagogical approaches to family literacy programs? As these questions are explored several…

Concerned that their special education students were not being adequately prepared for the post-high school world, a rural Arkansas school district made a concerted effort to provide a systematic transition program in which opportunities for life after graduation could become a meaningful reality. A significant component of the transition program…

The rewards of band membership may be clear, but in tough economic times, with schools, teachers, and students facing new obligations around every corner, it is not always easy to keep a band on track. And so a question arises, one that has relevance both for teachers who want to start a band program from scratch and for veteran band directors…

The ability to discover, explore, describe and mathematise relationships between different concepts is at the heart of scientific work of professional mathematicians and scientists. At school level, however, helping students to link, differentiate or investigate the nature of relationships between mathematics concepts remains in the shadow of…

Institutions that have organized and centralized their data enjoy an obvious advantage in grappling with strategic planning and other issues. As the drumbeat for accountability, planning, and demonstrating effectiveness to internal and external stakeholders intensifies, the stature and importance of institutional research offices on most campuses…

The Intensive Mental Health Program meets the needs for services in school systems for children with serious emotional disturbances and for training graduate students in clinical applications with a difficult-to-serve population. We address the range of challenges and rewards experienced in the development of the comprehensive intervention…

Excited about the possibilities of action research, these authors decided to develop a project that would test the effectiveness of action research as a professional development model for adult basic education teachers in the District of Columbia. The objectives of this action research were to: (1) Provide opportunities for teachers to be engaged…