Describes the team teaching efforts of four Xaverian Brothers who have undertaken to coordinate the religious educational needs of a group of catholic parishes in Queens, New York. (AN)

Explains programs developing in an Education Cooperative in Appalachia. (MK)

Describes ESEA Title V projects that deal with strengthening State Departments of Education. (MK)

For 24 consecutive school days a teacher-observer kept a log of classroom interruptions caused by persons who entered a sixth-grade class of 30 pupils. Data were analyzed for frequency and nature of interruptions on academic engagement, and the attitudes toward students projected by interrupters. (Author/RH)

A university dance program conducted at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, the 1978 residency of the Alwin Nikolais Company, is described. Collaboration between the company and university personnel is described in the areas of: (1) creating a working environment; (2) participating in residency events; and (3) fulfilling expectations. (CJ)

The author shows how cooperation between CETA, as a model training program, and two-year colleges can benefit future training programs as well as the colleges. (Author/CT)

The use of comprehensive vocational evaluation is recognized as a vital component for effective programs. While vocational assessment is present in a small minority of programs at the present time, a trend is developing to incorporate this service into vocational special needs programs. (JOW)

To make mainstreaming a functional process, the cooperation, support, and shared expertise of both vocational educators and special educators are required. (SK)

Suggests that genre and time-line college literature courses give way to thematic courses and cooperative courses within other departments. (FL)

This article addresses instructional improvement role responsibilities by suggesting, with appropriate rationale, that supervisors and principals work together in effecting instructional improvement. (Author)

Ways in which career education and vocational education have supported each other the past 10 years are examined, along with major ways in which career education serves to enhance vocational education. The implications of career education/vocational education relationships for American education in the 1980s are also examined. (CT)

A 6-year collaboration between home care professionals and academic researchers shows how to identify the right research partners, mobilize resources, sustain long-term effectiveness, and ensure return on investments of time, energy, and resources. Despite the challenges to both community and university, research partnerships result in benefits to…

Schools, colleges, government, and businesses all have a stake in including excluded groups in educational opportunities, whether the rationale is social justice or economic development. Advertising has worked to create a consumer culture, so it can be used to create a learning culture. (SK)

Fourteen Texas community literacy programs received Job Training Partnership Act funds to form local partnerships. The collaborations enabled them to provide comprehensive, coordinated services to educationally disadvantaged people. The enhanced visibility of the programs enabled them to obtain additional funding after the initial grants ended.…

Describes the development and initial use of the collaborative group counseling referral process. The school setting, participants, and process are briefly described, as are the counseling groups that resulted from the process. The teachers' perceptions of the group referral process are also examined. (GCP)