Careful planning and cooperation with local social service agencies can ensure a successful dressmaking course for blind students. Individual, teacher-produced patterns, tape-recorded instructions, and machines adapted for use by the handicapped are aids to the early success which instills self-confidence and encourages independence. (AJ)

Teacher responsibilities in a new Farmers Home Administration loan program (enabling vocational agriculture students to conduct income producing projects) include: selecting students and seeing that projects are part of their organized, supervised program and will provide sufficient returns to provide repayment so the youths may establish their…

This paper was presented at a meeting of the Health Services Branch, Auxiliary Services Division of Los Angeles City Schools, Hamilton High School, 2955 Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, February 3, 1969.

The evolution of the relationship between the College Entrance Examination Board and the Educational Testing Service is outlined, and five aspects of the current cooperative relationship are noted: contractual agreements, shared tasks, specific membership needs, moral obligations to the educational community, and tradition. (MSE)

This series of articles is devoted to a discussion of the relationships that exist between agricultural education and other agencies, including community organizations, cooperative extension, other vocational programs, international education agencies, and colleges of agriculture. (SK)

Discusses a model for clinical preventive intervention with multi-risk-factor families and their infants, with emphasis on the developmental risks involved for both. Emphasis is placed on the context of the total intervention effort, namely, on intervention with the infant, parents, and support system. (Author/DB)

Educational legislation mandated that state education agencies submit plans for the coordination of federal and state funds for school staff development. State activities in planning, preparing, and coordinating programs are identified and discussed. (JN)

One of the major goals of the Jamaican Early Stimulation Project is to develop a low cost model for providing early identification of disability and intervention services. Journal availability: see EC 133 861. (Author)

Analysis of 12 interagency collaboration projects conducted by the Hispanic Program of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Youth Guidance Center reveals how this unorthodox method of service delivery can increase resources to U.S. Hispanic populations and identifies factors which hinder or facilitate the success of such projects. (SB)

Describes a Tennessee program in which a facilitator project is sponsored jointly by a university and a school study council to accomplish cooperative field service, training, and program dissemination. (JM)

In one federally funded program, the third-party evaluator was under contract with the program evaluated and not the federal funding agency. The social structure of this arrangement has implications for information utilization. (Available from: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94104, single issue, $6.95.) (Author/GDC)

Highlights of a survey of community health nursing agencies and faculty suggest the need for better planning and collaboration between service and education in preparing students for this field. Survey data tables are included. (CT)

A health education coordinating council can help all those involved in health education in a given geographic area to coordinate, supplement, and intensify their efforts. (MB)

Every year, most school districts spend anywhere from one to thirteen dollars per student repairing damage caused by vandals. Yerba Buena High School, in San Jose, California, spends less than one thousand dollars per year total, and attributes this success to a project called "Crisis Counseling". (RW)

Describes progress made in recent years in addressing the educational needs of homeless children and youth in America and notes concerns that remain, including awareness and perceptions of homelessness, early childhood educational needs, interventions, interagency collaboration, and the need for comprehensive evaluations of educational efforts for…