Concluding his series on the debate over public school prime sponsorship, the author describes two systems of public school-affiliated family day care in South Carolina and offers some informed opinions and predictions. (Author/MP)

United Hospital in North Dakota, a primary teaching hospital associated with the University of North Dakota, has developed a program to provide on-site continuing medical education to outlying community hospitals and family medicine staff. The development, implementation and cost of the program are discussed. (JMD)

Describes an experimental course in communication arts covering reading and language arts from kindergarten to grade l2 designed to promote cooperative learning between the special educator and the classroom teacher. (CM)

Impact on distributive education cooperative programs due to the legislation increasing the minimum wage effective January 1, 1978, indicates that the change could greatly restrict future cooperative placements, thereby reducing distributive education enrollments. Employer strategies (for example, reducing student work hours) to overcome wage…

Discusses the historic and contemporary involvement of public libraries in community education, with emphasis on the need for cooperation among libraries of all types and other community agencies to ensure quality programs. (Author/CMV)

Presents a framework from which recommendations can be made for the orchestration of vocational education with industrial training. Principles and practices of industry training are outlined which in many cases are radically different from those of vocational education schools programs. (HD)

This outline of a comprehensive job placement program, which can be adopted or adapted by school staff members, includes information on the following areas: Service to the students and teachers; promotion of co-op and workstudy programs; meeting the needs of the entire school system; organizing the support of employers, labor, and community…

Following a brief discussion of the social and historical context of career education, the author discusses perspectives and ingredients of the career decisionmaking process, the importance of employability skills, and the role of the cooperative work experience. (HD)

A successful, cooperative, short-term, crisis intervention, mental health program has been developed between Fulton-McDonough County Community Health Center and the health service of Western Illinois University, with a fulltime consultant provided by the community health center and paid by the university. (MB)

By fostering systematic analysis of decisionmaking and employability skills, cooperative work experience becomes a goal-directed experience related to student employability and personal planning; as such, cooperative programs represent a prime delivery system for career education. (TA)

The politics of petrodollars stands high on the list of academic concerns as universities wrestle with the ethics of accepting profitable Middle Eastern research and teaching contracts. Implications of the issues involved--political repression, discrimination, student selection, curriculum control--are addressed. (LBH)

Presents and discusses the common threads woven into the recommendations for educational reform from the major reports published since 1972. An examination of their conclusions and recommendations for change suggests areas to be considered for reform efforts. (Author/MLF)

Northwest Iowa Power Co-op, Northwest Iowa Telephone, and MCI formed Pioneer Holdings to bring the latest telecommunications services to residents, schools, and businesses in rural Iowa. A half-dozen towns and co-ops have joined Pioneer, which gives customers access to all telecom services offered by MCI, as well as technical, regulatory, and…

The transition to a digital environment offers new opportunities for cooperative collection development but raises questions about models based on a print environment. Examines assumptions related to cooperative collection development and resource sharing, discusses directions future cooperation in information resources might take, and suggests…

Explores mutual advantages for information literacy through public and school library partnerships. Highlights include different goals for the same audience, a shift in services and roles, exemplary national programs, and possibilities of joint collection development. Demonstrates the needs and actions to stimulate the opportunity for adolescents…