The Learning Resource Support Program provides academic support services to learning disabled adolescents. (SB)

Critically reviews conventional community education programs on child abuse/neglect and describes a practice model used by the Supportive Child/Adult Network (SCAN), which is said to be effective because it encompasses specific goals and strategies. (Author/CM)

Discusses an American Association of Community and Junior Colleges/National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project, "Strengthening Humanities in Occupational Curricula." Reviews conference workshops, which presented model humanities education programs for occupational students and discussed methods for improving humanities…

Explores how child abuse investigators make decisions and examines the disposition of their reports. Services were recommended to families on the basis of the child's injuries and the parent's receptiveness to help. With medical evidence to support abuse charges, investigators were more likely to enter the home, take the case to court, and remove…

The need for a new approach to the education of nonacademic students is stressed, and a nonreading approach for learning disabled elementary children, the Parallel Alternate Curriculum, is discussed. (PHR)

Discusses sexual harrassment guidelines which legally define the term as sex discrimination. While this is good for those facing harassment, it unrealistically places a socially-based problem on the shoulders of personnel managers. Points out the long-term benefits of a workplace free from harassment and intimidation. (JOW)

Preliminary results of a career planning project for Adult Basic Education participants in Connecticut show that less advantaged adults do not recognize the importance of career planning to get a job, although they may face occupational change in mid life. (SK)

Describes a successful experimental humanities course during which students and professor investigate "self-reliance in a technological society" through combining theoretical and philosophical academic study with the practical application of purchasing and remodeling an old house. (JD)

The article describes the Chapel Hill Gifted Handicapped Project (housed at the University of North Carolina) designed to develop a model and field tested curricula for gifted and handicapped preschoolers. (SBH)

Describes the benefits of the Bay Area Writing Project and the excitement it has generated in a "down" period for the English teaching profession. (DD)

Addresses are given for the 4 Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) demonstration sites, the 12 EBCE pilot sites, and the 9 market demand sites. Names and addresses are provided of persons who may be contacted for further information. (AJ)

Describes a successful program in which older medical students act as tutors to first-year students in small-group teaching sessions. Describes the organization and evaluation of this program. (MKR)

Cross-site observation of Lifting New Voices, a national initiative to involve youth in community development, indicated the following: (1) youth participation has multiple impacts; (2) facilitating factors are youth as leaders, adult allies, and intergenerational bridges; and (3) obstacles include conditioning, withdrawal of disadvantaged…

Interviews with six participants in an exemplary transitional housing program for homeless persons identified attitudes and behaviors contributing to success or failure, community resources contributing to success, and program aspects participants found difficult. Results yielded principles for program implementation, staffing, and improvement.…

So far, the results of school restructuring efforts have been more rhetorical than real. As several University of Georgia projects illustrate, the work of newly decentralized, empowered schools embodies both high excitement and high anxiety. The contradictions of empowerment lie in attempting inimitable innovations while withstanding uncertainty…