When it comes to conducting an underage drinking prevention program, most people think of the planning and implementation activities that are needed. The one question many do not answer, however, is how will the organization obtain the funding that is necessary for those planning and implementation activities, particularly over the long-term. An…

Residential/group child care in the United States was established more than a century ago with permanency planning emerging in the 1970's. Even though there are many beneficial reasons to promote and participate in permanency planning, participation has often been difficult in a rural state. This paper describes a residential child care provider's…

In an attempt to provide feedback to state and local program directors on ways to improve current procedures, an analysis was made of the effects of non-custodial parents' referrals to the workforce. This employment assistance program was designed to increase the income-producing and parenting capacities of non-custodial parents in Bexar County…

Industrial Education is attempting to bring all of its components into an integrated effort to provide continuous growth for students. Six concepts basic to this attempt are vertical articulation, horizontal correlation, individual alternatives, common decision-making base, appropriate learning outcomes, and flexibility. (Author/KP)

Six emerging political issues that state boards are likely to face in the years ahead are briefly discussed: role perception, program review, budget review, system definition, retrenchment coordination and a definition of success. (Author/PG)

Describes the cooperative community education program begun by three Galveston County public school districts and the local community college. (Author/DN)

Five midwestern institutions have banded together in a consortium to build academic bridges with universities abroad and to provide more effective technical cooperation, believing that these activities will at the same time strengthen the international dimensions of their home campuses. (Editor)

Argues that black mothers in the U.S. are adversely affected by the white stereotype of the quiet passive baby, citing evidence that in Africa, black neonates show a rapid growth in motor development, while in Mexico, Mayan Indian babies, just minutes old, demonstrate a precocious development in sensory perception. (Author/JM)

While the Bedouin children's perceptual exploration might be considered less mature in some ways related to reading, this was not the case with other aspects of perceptual exploration. (DM)

Two groups of 15 boys (mean age 8 years, mean IQ 100), both presenting difficulties in academic achievement, but one with and one without visuomotor impairments, were assessed to determine whether poor drawing ability was related to perceptual or motor disorders. (Author)

The Junior College Journalism Association's certification'' procedure is an evaluative device that facilitates the transfer process by indicating which community college journalism courses meet certain standards. (RN)

Differences in the biology curricula of two-year and four-year colleges pose many problems for both students and teachers. A program to coordinate all biology teachers throughout the state for resolving such differences is described. (PS)

DILENOWISCO is composed of 4 counties and 1 city in southwestern Virginia, which it serves as an educational cooperative. (NQ)