Provides eight questions school board members can ask themselves in order to evaluate their service. Answers to the questions present guidelines on how to improve one's service. (Author/IRT)

The author's ten commandments are intended to provide teachers with significant general guidelines for use in the classroom. The areas covered include worship in the classroom, academic freedom, corporal punishment, slander and libel, and student safety. (IRT)

Intended for parents, it offers 14 suggestions for working with schools to meet the special needs of gifted children. Among recommendations are the following: examine your own attitudes first, become a letter writer, be sure of your information before suggesting changes, and don't be afraid to talk about money. (SBH)

Guidelines for securing and maintaining local funding for computer-related projects include suggestions in the areas of establishing and maintaining project/school board relationships, encountering social and political factors, and defining guidelines for project implementation. Successes and failures of the MICA project are provided as…

Guidelines are given to the job-seeking music teacher on interpreting job advertisements and on the content, structure, and appearance of a good resume. A sample resume is provided. (SJL)

Describes visual aids for training meetings and suggests how the trainer can use them: chalkboards, markerboards, magnetic boards, hook-and-loop boards, corkboards, menu (changeable letter) boards, and easel and presentation boards. Also lists product manufacturers/suppliers. (MF)

The National Humanities Center in North Carolina has individual studies that provide absolute privacy for each scholar, and a commons, with lounges and a dining room, placed to encourage interaction. (Author/MLF)

An AIA Honor Award was given for the Pembroke Dormitories at Brown University. The dormitories, said the jury, are an "outstanding example of weaving an institution into the urban fabric." (Author/MLF)

The Legal Research Center for Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, was designed to allow existing facilities to dominate, to continue a linear development of a steep nonlinear site, and to connect gracefully to adjacent buildings. (Author/MLF)

Some information components associated with social science numeric data bases are outlined, and guidelines, examples, and a uniform vocabulary for the creation of bibliograpic citations are included. (Author/MBR)

Provides a summary of dos and don'ts for school systems that want to inaugurate a sex education program. (Author/IRT)

Provides ten areas in which principals can work to help prevent teacher "burnout." (IRT)

Provides four suggestions on how future music teachers can develop greater understanding and competency in the vocal field. (Author/RK)