Four schools offering a continuous progress or nongraded approach to pacing for gifted students are reviewed: the Plano (TX) Independent School District, The University of Pittsburgh Laboratory School, the Chesapeake (VA) Demonstration School, and the University of California at Los Angeles Elementary School. (CL)

Presents conceptual framework for understanding problems encountered by dropouts in school-to-work transition; underlying assumption is that dropouts are likely to face strains in homes, jobs, and other community settings similar to those which led to their dropping out. Also discusses exemplary school and work programs for dropouts. (CMG)

Impact evaluation of Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented, a model program for gifted and talented handicapped preschoolers, revealed that 28 project children in three sites demonstrated statistically significant gains in self-esteem, purposiveness, creativity, and talent area functioning. (CL)

This paper describes a place-based research demonstration program to promote and sustain employment among residents of selected public housing developments in U.S. cities. Because all eligible residents of the participating public housing developments were free to take part in the program, it was not possible to study its impacts in a classical…

Reporting a demonstration environmental education program in Corvallis, Oregon, schools. (Author)

Relates the construction and use of a strobe unit as an instructional aid. The second of a 2-part article. (MU)

Paper delivered at the 18th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1971. (CB)

Operation Opportunity was a demonstration project sponsored by General Foods to hire disadvantaged high school students for summer jobs and to hold in escrow one dollar for every dollar earned for future education or vocational training at any approved institution. (BC)

The curriculum for kindergarten through college and continuing education must serve all: "the college-bound student, the soon-to-be-married student, and the student heading for the labor market upon high school graduation. (JK/Author)

Describes program committed to early identification of children in low incidence areas of exceptionality, and development of specialized services for them. Focus here is on visual screening. (Author/CJ)

Project Technology has tried to counteract the drift away from science and technology by encouraging the development of projects which are relevant and beneficial to society and by giving students an idea of the positive potentials of technology. (BC)

The preparation of interested and well-trained individuals for service in editorial, advertising, and management positions on rural and small town newspapers is the intent of Sampson Technical Institute's 2-year pilot journalism program. (JO)