Systems Improvement Research (SIR) establishes a team composed of inside workers and outside consultants who jointly collect data and make plans for change. (Author)

An interview with John I. Goodlad concerning the research he and his associates have been conducting over the last eight years in an attempt to describe "Schooling in America." (IRT)

Described is the comprehensive residential program for deaf multihandicapped students at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside. (CL)

Barriers to successful cooperation include apathy, competitiveness, lack of understanding of each other's roles, and failure to involve administrators. Although successful ventures are numerous and innovative, there is a need to achieve the ultimate goal--to satisfy the needs of patrons and to enable both school and public libraries to work more…

This position paper covering the goals and objectives, faculty, students, governance, administration, financing, and physical facilities for a sixth-year program in librarianship, was adapted by the AALS in January 1978. An analysis of a questionnaire distributed to accredited library schools regarding development of the program is appended. (MBR)

At the University of Michigan, an innovative career counseling service is offered to graduate students. The Office of Non-Academic Career Counseling and Placement assists graduate students expand career options in response to a tight academic market. (Author)

This paper examines sources of two-year college teachers and looks at several of the programs currently being developed specifically to prepare teachers who plan to teach in community colleges. (Author)

Described is a zoological program which developed as a remedial effort to meet the needs of a 13-year-old boy with a history of academic failure and emotional withdrawal. (CL)

The article describes a program developed in 1972 in Montgomery County, Maryland to provide daily resource remediation to elementary school aged children with language handicaps. (CL)

Completion of the gymnasium-auditorium of Anatolia College in Thessaloniki is a testimony to the friendship between the peoples of Greece and the United States. (MJB)

The director of a middle school intramural athletic program describes the process of developing his school's program from a very limited offering with small financial backing to a program involving nineteen activities, a full-time director, and six assistants. (MJB)

LaGuardia Community College's Teaching, Application and Reinforcement (TAR) Program helps students develop the three thinking techniques, calculative, reflective, and analytical thinking, necessary for the mental agility that must be a part of the changing climate of the business world. (RK)

The purpose of the described assertion-training workshop was to give participants some knowledge of the process and content of the job interview and assertive verbal and nonverbal interview behavior. (Author)

The Modesto plan includes basic skills competency standards in the K-8 grades and competency-based high school graduation. (IRT)

Peer counseling cannot take the place of a valid guidance program within a school. It can, however, augment an ongoing guidance effort by providing appropriate experiences for students and thus freeing trained guidance personnel for more specialized work. (Author)