Report of how one campus placement service utilized a newsletter to give students ready access to career planning information. (JC)

Specific suggestions on improving communication between administrators, teachers, parents, and students. (SP)

The federal government has made cuts in the funding for research and development purposes during the 1974 fiscal year. Data are presented showing comparative budgets of different federal agencies. (PS)

Lists organizations, information sources, electronic media, bibliographies, periodicals and newsletters concerning the Chicano community. (PG)

Discusses the background of the Special Libraries Association Committee on Networking; reviews the projects undertaken by the committee in the past, including the Bibliographic Utilities Interview Project, the publication of NETLET, "Networking Notes" columns in Special Libraries, and the Electronic Mail Experiment; and outlines future…

Included are listings of important books, journals and newsletters; brief descriptions of the major professional societies in the program evaluation field (including membership information); a listing of resources for evaluation training materials; and a brief discussion of targeted research on evaluation. (Author/RL)

A brief history of the activities and objectives of the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on International School Psychology (ISP), organized in 1972, is discussed. Objectives of ISP inlcude: establishing a newsletter; exchanging visits and information, and sponsoring panels, symposia, and international colloquia. (MH)

Describes ways that teachers in schools can help parents understand how children become readers and writers in order to build support for emergent literacy programs. Discusses classroom newsletters and parent workshops. (SR)

Provides a brief history of the American Society of Indexers (ASI) and assesses its position among other organizations, such as ASIS, involved with the organization of information. Topics discussed include the annual award for best monograph index; the ASI newsletter; and publicity to convey the importance of quality indexing. (LRW)

Outlines the goals of the new editor of this monthly newsletter for parents. Suggests practices that teachers can use to enlist the cooperation of parents, including corresponding and meeting with parents before the school year, and communicating with parents several times during the school year to learn about their child and to open a dialog…

Contributes to scholarship on organizational identification (linked to decision making) by examining the identification rhetoric of an in-house newsletter at the U. S. Forest Service and by examining employee responses to newsletter content. Discusses the four responses to the newsletter that were identified: non identification, textual…

Analyzes photographs (in 1985-86 and 1991-92) in IBM's employee newsletter "Think." Finds overall that women were underrepresented compared to their presence in IBM's labor force, with the exception that the proportion of women shown in leadership roles in "Think" was not significantly different from their proportion in IBM's…

A board member in an Iowa district explains the importance of presenting 4-minute summaries of educational news and trends at board meetings. In choosing items for presentation, she considers relevance, context, perspective, terminology, awareness, and national political developments. (MLH)

Discusses student writing as it relates to adult literacy education and describes "Write First Time," a newsletter of adult literacy students' writings. Suggests that having writing published gives learners a different view of other printed texts. (JOW)