Foreign Currency Exchange is the largest business in the world. The New York Institute of Finance estimates that somewhere around 1.5 trillion dollars changes hands every 24 hours. The trading of international currencies has made overnight millionaires. No other marketplace in the world can give a person more significant opportunity to make money…

The League of Women Voters/Tallahassee responded to an opportunity to research the concerns of Florida's judiciary following the disrupted general election of 2000. It received a grant for the Judicial Independence Project, a project supported by a grant from the Program on Law and Society of the Open Society Institute, from the League of Women…

To achieve the best outcomes possible, transition-age youth need specific skills in areas such as math, literacy, and independent living. However, skills in these areas will not assure successful outcomes in the absence of adequate social skills. Social skills form the basis for social competence. This brief reviews research on the importance of…

Role playing stimulates thinking. It helps students seek more than one solution to a problem, and it promotes consideration of long-range effects of choices. (Author)

A scenario was presented depicting interaction among a city councilman, a cable operator, a community organizer, a library director, and a superintendent of media development, all of whom have different concerns and views about cable television. (Other conference materials are LI 503071-503079 and LI 503081 through LI 503084.) (SM)

Role playing a job interview was used during a group guidance session with Job Corp females. As a technique, it was found to be flexible, adaptable, and timesaving. (Author)

Because many of today's issues are complex and confusing, children need opportunities and help in value development other than the traditional kinds. Describes value clarification techniques available to the teacher. (Author/DR)

The Exemplary Program in Career Development, now in its second year in the elementary schools of Bismarck, builds a sequence of significant tasks that are incorporated into the regular curriculum at each grade level. (RB)

An elementary school pilot career program that includes evaluation of self-characteristics, exploration of broad occupational areas, introduction to the economic and social values of work, and introduction to sociological and psychological meanings of work. (RB)