Contract food management can contain food costs and, with the contractor's team of food service professionals, provide creative programs that teach nutrition and add interest to school meals. (MLF)

This article summarizes the issues confronting environmental education planners. The major problems are lack of comprehensive planning and effective leadership, failure to analyze causes of problems and to develop constructive action to provide solutions, and shortage of valid and reliable instruments to measure program effectiveness. (MR)

Discussion of adult continuing education administered by a department of adult education vs. an ad hoc "cell" or center for providing continuing education activities as at Punjab University. (ABM)

Grant writing is not as daunting a task as it may seem--at least not when there are experts to guide you. In the first half of this book, the authors explain what every grant writer needs to know and do to successfully secure funding. Readers will learn the following: (1) How to locate different kinds of grant sponsors; (2) How to understand the…

For this report, CEEP staff collected information on testing timelines, subjects, grade configurations, names, and SEA testing contacts. As with the 2003 report, discussion in this report is limited to the testing components of state assessment programs, such as Indiana's ISTEP+ program, used for compliance purposes with state and federal…

The second edition of Therapeutic Recreation in the Community: An Inclusive Approach reflects the changing and evolving nature of recreation and health care services. A number of social, economic, and political directives and technological advancements have fostered recreation in the community for all individuals. Due in part to a rising awareness…

Quality afterschool programs offer participants productive ways to spend the crucial afterschool hours--whether these hours are between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on school days, during weekends, or before school--that otherwise might be spent in unsupervised and potentially harmful activities. Also, afterschool programs help provide additional support to…

Based on the work of the National Council on Research in Child Welfare (NCRCW), this handbook is designed to help social service agency executives cope with changing times for child welfare agencies, strengthen traditional services to meet today's needs, and analyze and plan for the future. The manual aims to demystify quality improvement theory…

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a federally funded nutrition assistance program administered by the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Responding to Congressional requests for information regarding program costs, this report provides information on: (1) funding…

The writing program administrator (WPA) at a small, Catholic liberal arts college has many roles in fulfilling her job responsibilities and upholding institutional values, which include collaboration, dialogue, and application of knowledge to benefit others and the environment. Some of these roles include: teaching four courses, engaging in…

The Memphis Restructuring Initiative (MRI) was an attempt at comprehensive school reform in Tennessee that ended with a whimper. Its downfall seems to involve some sort of "schismogenesis" or "inversion," in which many teachers violently reacted against being overworked and overwhelmed, culminating in the easy discarding of 8…

Contains text of a speech presented at four of eight 2-day forums which discusses the contribution industrial arts should make to a total program of education. (Editor/SB)

Differing views of a curriculum project led to ineffective implementation of the program, and subsequent failure to promote desired educational changes. (JB)