Enthusiastic, project-centered teaching helped high school students in Anaheim, California, to improve attendance records, gain credits, and to adopt more positive attitudes toward school. (DW)

An innovative international education program designed to provide various countries with an experimental educational laboratory and standardize international secondary education is described. (DE)

The introduction, costs, efficiency, effect on students and teachers, and problems caused by the installation of instructional television into the El Salvador educational system are examined. (DE)

Article investigated the question of whether conservative educational alternatives are the vanguard of a reactionary takeover. (Author/RK)

The American College Testing Program (ACT) developed tests as a result of the College Outcome Measures Project (COMP). These instruments were intended for evaluation of nontraditional and traditional postsecondary education programs. They measure skills rather than information. The study was designed to check on several aspects of use of the COMP…

The booklet presents a transcript of a public radio program on arts at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. In the interview, students and the principal discuss their experiences in this high school for students pursuing the disciplines of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Music students talk about how the school has…

Five Youth Employment and Demonstration Program Act (YEDPA) programs are compared with the Career Intern Program (CIP) (an alternative high school program aiming to prepare dropouts, and those likely to abandon school, for employment) in terms of emphasizing issues related to program implementation. The YEDPA programs selected for comparison upon…

The pamphlet outlines programs provided by Bergen County (New Jersey) for gifted students. Initial sections provide information on definition of the term "gifted"; methods for identification; professional awareness and sensitivity to the gifted; and personal characteristics, strategies, and competencies of a teacher of the gifted. A…

This paper analyzes the uses and misuses of alternative education programs for disruptive youth. It discusses their potential for assisting students who are unsuccessful in conventional school programs and points out their limitations and dangers. The paper describes the positive and negative aspects of existing alternative schools. It reviews…

The guide is designed to provide the building level administrator a step by step model for implementing Project DEEP's (Diversified Educational Experiences Program) alternative classroom management system for secondary academic classrooms with disaffected (attendance problems, discipline problems, potential dropouts), average, and gifted and…

The paper reviews a panel presentation on the essential components, policies, and strategies of a system for effectively moving emotionally disturbed (ED) students into least restrictive educational environments and maintaining them there. The first two parts of the session focused on a system for partially mainstreaming center school (seventh and…

In this background paper, the author provides a brief history of the educational voucher and outlines various suggested voucher plans. Included is a discussion of the plan that was tried at Alum Rock, California, and the plans that were voted on in statewide referendums in Michigan and California. The author provides a list of the pros and cons of…

The concept of team teaching and how real estate education might profit from its use are considered. Contents are as follows: (1) an explanation of this concept for organizing instruction, alternative modes for structuring teaming, a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in a team approach to instruction, and the research that…