Described is a 15-minute audio-tour that orients first-time visitors to the center by providing them with an organized walk through the facility and describing special features. (MP)

Describes an in-service program designed to show teachers how to read in content areas so that they can teach their students relevant skills. (MKM)

Describes the sequence of planning activities for the Buffalo, New York, Writing Place Project workshop and inservices, concentrating on the steps necessary to make a writing laboratory a reality. (DD)

Most children have visited a city even if they don't live in one. Build on your students' city experience through a learning center. Here are some activities that will help city children visualize the geographic location of their neighborhoods within the city while they learn language and math skills and about social studies and art activities.…

The author describes the writing skills lab program in her junior high school. (DS)

Describes the reference books that are part of the new equipment in editing and reporting laboratories at the Indiana University School of Journalism. (KS)

Highlights of the National Education Association's (NEA) annual meeting include endorsement of a "learning lab" plan whereby each state designates at least one school district as a learning laboratory where teachers can experiment and take the lead in reshaping public education. (MLF)

Using materials clipped from newspapers, students in a Typing I laboratory learn how to tabulate, proofread, type letters, and reports, etc., and work independently and evaluate other students' work. (TA)

A self instructional learning center developed at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy provides alternative educational opportunities for pharmacy students at all levels of education and practice. (Author)

Article describes the program and facilities utilizing the latest theories in educational media at The Northeast Regional Media Center for the Deaf and the Boston School for the Deaf, Boston, Massachusetts. (HB)

Article gives an account of a successful high school child development laboratory program in Gaithersburg, Maryland. (GB)

Contends that sensitivity training and brainwashing are essentially different, though superficially similar in form and in that they involve behavior change and are based on explicable theories of learning and human behavior. Brainwashing is coercive and based on distrust; sensitivity training is collaborative and based on trust. (Author/JB)