Describes a national program funded by the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) to train rehabilitation specialists in the use of these prevention strategies in rehabilitation programs. Objectives include strengthening prevention knowledge and skills, encouraging coalition building, and broadening understanding of the effectiveness of…

A discovery-based experiment is developed depending on a "false assumption" that the students mistakenly assume they know the structure of a reaction product and are forced to reconcile observations that are inconsistent with this assumption. This experiment involves the chemistry of azulenes, an interesting class of intensely colored aromatic…

In this article, the authors describe an interdisciplinary doctoral course via a seminar (one semester, one-and-a-half hours weekly), that students found to be a major awakening and an important part of their professional development. Addressed were separate disciplines, via an experimental "How to be a Professor" course, and…

This review of nonstandard treatments as they relate to individuals with mental retardation reveals attempts to increase intelligence and make individuals "normal." Covering the early 1930s through the present, the review addresses: cell therapy, electric shock, behavior modification, vitamin B-6 therapy, Doman-Delacato treatment,…

An experimental approach now being tried to resolve environmental conflicts is the use of the negotiation-mediation process. The role of the mediator and the nature of the mediation process as applied to environmental disputes are outlined. (BT)

Describes a resource center of an experimental education program in which staff members show children how to find people and places to learn from in the community and how to become independent learners. (ED)

The Texas Academy of Family Physicians requires its members to fulfill continuing education requirements to remain in good standing in the academy. The continuing education program at the annual meeting is described. (Author/PG)

If faculty members can adapt to the insecurity of an innovative college or program, they should be able to cope effectively with the turbulence of modern life in general. (Editor)

A conversation with Theodore Newcomb about college students, experimental colleges, antiscientific moods on campus, and being a good teacher. (Editor)

Heliotrope, Orpheus, and Communiversity, San Francisco's three free universities, offer curricula with combinations of alchemy, magic, Volkswagen repairs, options in education, dance, conversational Mandarin, basic plumbing, and brain wave experiences. (Author/PG)

Teaching a course in clinical psychology so as to foster development of problem solving skills, attitudes and behaviors such as autonomy and independent thinking is reported. (Editor/PG)

This monograph is one of four reports that describe the Model Schools Project of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The Model Schools Project involved 32 junior and senior high schools in a five-year effort to provide individualized learning strategies for their students. This particular monograph describes the evaluative…

This report describes the Experimental Schools Project (ESP) conducted by the Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma, Washington, under funding from the National Institute of Education. The ESP was a five-year program designed to provide the optimum learning environment for each student. Each of the district's 13 schools attempted, through…

This publication presents a brief summary description of an experimental dropout prevention program developed at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California. The program described is Project MACK (More Advanced Careers and Knowledge), a four-year program funded under ESEA Title VIII that operated from the 1971-72 school year through the 1974-75…

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