The traditional K-3 social studies curriculum has focused on food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation, and other cultural universals. A study was designed to provide information with respect to the topic of shelter, and in the process, to assess claims that primary grade students do not need instruction in the topic because they…

This book is about the struggle of raising children who work against your every effort as a parent or clinician to help them succeed in the world. Specifically, this book is about children who often do not respond to approaches offered in books and parent training programs for "normal" children. There are other books that address individual…

This TIP, on the best practice recommendations for the treatment of substance abuse, presents guidelines for ensuring continuity of care as offenders with substance use disorders move from incarceration to the community. Research indicates that treatment gains may be lost if treatment is not continued after the offender is released from…

This directory lists the names of volunteer groups, individual transcribers, and nonprofit and commercial organizations that transcribe and record books and other reading materials for persons who are blind and physically handicapped. It was compiled from information supplied by organizations and groups who perform these services. The listing is…

The sense of unity, of community, is lost because we have gone far beyond the human scale in which the individual can contain the social will and the social will can be an instrument ofpersonal fulfilment. Decision-makers need to move toward multi-purpose planning embracing the full spectrum of human needs. (Author)

Describes the materials, equipment and program at the Barley Sheaf School Library, New Jersey. (JB)

Recent experience indicates that the quality of the present educational programs can be improved more by systematic selection of what is to be taught than by improving how it is taught. (Author)

Career education is not a panacea, the authors admit, but in it they see a step toward a solution to many of the problems and difficulties in today's society and schools. (Editor)

This kit is intended for children with mental ages three through five, and for use in regular readiness and language arts programs. (Author)

Article attempts to describe the emotional rebirth of four of the eight children brought together as one family by the remarriage of parents who each had four children. (MB)

Law instruction should be given in the public schools, starting with kindergarten and continuing through grade 12. This subject should be taught as a code that benefits both society and the individual rather than as a set of restrictions within which one must operate. (CK)