A look at a study funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development which is attempting to demonstrate that imaginative applications of telecommunications will enable business units'' to operate effectively over wide distances and thus prevent migrations from rural areas. (Author/AK)

A drug-dependent, college dropout was treated successfully with covert conditioning in a behaviorally oriented treatment program. The drug-taking behavior was not altered directly. Attention is drawn to these findings as well as to a proposed treatment program for heroin-addicted college dropouts. (Author)

Identifies costs to individuals and to the government that are associated with failure to complete specified levels of schooling. (JF)

Taste of community college keeps potential dropouts in school. (Editor)

A short review of the development of adult education in Ceylon, from the introduction of Buddhism in the third century B. C. to the present time, with emphasis on twentieth century programs and achievements. (JB)

A summer program conducted to encourage male high school dropouts to return to school met with a high degree of success. Each boy was directed to re-examine his values toward education and life. (CK)

A project to encourage youth with problems to finish school is discussed. (CK)

The relationship of reading ability to the dropout problem is discussed. (CK)

This program suggests: (1) take the underemployed, nonskilled worker, who has a feel for upward job mobility, and offer him opportunities of current job training programs; (2) fill the vacuum he creates by filling his job with hard core unemployed individual; (3) after he has worked for a period of time the cycle will probably start over. (Author)

Some comments on the applicability of television to aiding the rural development of underdeveloped countries. (LS)

Documents the sharp decrease in the percentage of 16- to 24-year-olds in the labor force between October 1981 and October 1982 as the last of the post-World War II baby-boom generation completed high school. States that this trend will probably continue through the 1980s as enrollments continue to decline. (NJ)

Study done to evaluate factors influencing Black dropouts. Results indicate that, most often, Black dropouts are students with higher intelligence but lower educational aspiration and motivation then Black students remaining in school. Tables included. (Author/JLF)