Discusses need to adapt urban models to communities of low population density, particularly in operational areas of personnel selection, program development, community-staff relationship and program content. (CJ)

Contrasts the factors determining the supply-demand ratio for black professionals with that for white professionals, and examines the future role of black professionals in salvaging the urban environment in which the majority of black Americans live. (JM)

Indications point to an increasing professionalism of business teachers at all levels in the 1970's. Videotaping techniques, microteaching, newer developments in student-teaching approach (including internship) are providing opportunity for teachers to become sophisticated analysts of teaching-learning behaviors. (Author)

Analyzes the reasons why the privately supported community child guidance clinic, orginated in 1921 to prevent delinquency and serving a lower class clientele, came to focus on in-clinic, psychoanalytic treatment with a middle class clientele. (JM)

Each school media specialist creates his or her own role. Media specialists are instructional leaders, curriculum developers, consultants, and administrators. The ability to cope with technological change while creating a future which will be personally satisfying and professionally rewarding is the key to defining the role. (PP)

Describes various activities of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and its Committee on Teaching Chemistry (CTC). Includes an alphabetical list by country of IUPAC CTC national representatives. (JN)

A personal approach to instructional development that uses teaching consultants is described and illustrated with anecdotes from the first year of one such service at a large midwestern university. This individualized approach emphasizes the particular needs, interests, and limitations of each teacher-client on a case-by-case basis. (JMD)

The contrasts between the medical model and the teaching model in public education are so great that medical malpractice principles are not a reliable guide to an emerging law of educational malpractice. (Author/IRT)

Prepared at the request of the CSWE Task Force on Social Work Practice and Education, this paper highlights some of the critical issues identified by both practitioners and educators. (Editor/LBH)

The growth of adult basic education (ABE) is reviewed and projections are made as to its role in the future of providing services to the educationally disadvantaged adult. (TA)

The author asserts that school counselors should involve the teaching staff in counseling functions. He describes how he worked with the English department and other staff members at his school to implement career education. (EJT)

A survey of 100 regular classroom teachers found that teacher participation in the mainstreaming process, rather than availability of specific classroom modifications, was an important factor in their accepting elementary-age handicapped students into their classrooms. Of the modifications surveyed, most desired were reduced class size, support…

Mental health, behavioral, and process consultation models are described as three theoretical approaches to the practice of school-based consultation. Drawing from each of these models, an ecological model of consultation is offered as a conceptual umbrella for planning entry, assessment, intervention, and evaluation activities with handicapped…

Highlights the three social revolutions characterizing the Third Revolution as the revolution of the professionals who provide expert services that the high living standards and other aspects of society depend upon to continue. Focuses on the role of higher education in the Third Revolution and in maintaining social progress. (CMK)

Intended for professionals working with people with mental retardation and their families, this manual begins with a summary of the principles and philosophy concerning family participation and agency responsibilities of the South Carolina Department of Mental Retardation (DMR). The importance of family involvement in determining the least…