This paper examines the rapidly changing state of museum handhelds from both a technology and content perspective. The paper also discusses the component parts for a successful museum installation: content, user interface, applications, form factor, positioning and the challenges to integrating these components. Specific examples are demonstrated…

This report is an evaluation of the pilot year of Project Achieve, a major local instructional initiative at six elementary schools and two middle schools in the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina, that was designed to help reach the WCPSS goal of 95% of students at or above grade level. Participating schools had a higher…

Author brands career education defeatist. (Editor)

The goal of the program is to produce a graduate with the technical background and expertise necessary for direct entry into a process operator training program in a petro-chemical plant. It is a unique program offered through Lambton College, Canada, in co-operation with the process industries in Sarnia's "Chemical Valley". (Author/DS)

An Ohio State University medical student spends a month working with a New York Appalachian child development project (Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Developmental Services, Inc.). (FF)

This model is a career-oriented approach designed to enhance the employability and career options of out-of-school adults. (Author)

How Turkey, a country with rich agricultural technology know-how, developed management talent with U.S. help. (Editor)

The part played by the British Council and the center for Curriculum Renewal and Educational Development Overseas (CREDO) in the introduction of Nuffield 'O' Level science teaching methods into the schools of Western Nigeria is discussed. (CK)

Describes pilot project in adult basic education, part of a national development scheme, which was instituted in 1967 with the help of Unesco and the U.N. Development Programme. (JB)

Progress report on a new pilot program aimed at young people with limited reading comprehension. (Editor)

Specially designed materials were used for a class that combined the teaching of beginning shorthand and beginning typing in a 50-minute period. A comparison was made (1) between the typing skill of the combined class and a beginning typing class taught in the traditional manner and meeting 50 minutes daily and (2) the shorthand skill gained by…

The purpose of the Books/Jobs Program is to help Ohio's libraries reach and serve both those needing information and skills in order to obtain and hold jobs and the staffs of government and social agencies which work with the unemployed and underemployed. (Author/MF)

It is hoped that this pilot attempt along with other studies based on these same data will encourage further phases of the NOBELS Project. (Author)

The project director describes a three year trial program aimed at training vocational students to be audiovisual technicians. (LS)