A fax satellite center is used in North Carolina to deliver extension information to farmers. The system is used to respond to requests and to disseminate information on a timely basis. (JOW)

Describes child protection systems in England and ongoing changes in their services. Considers effects of a market force approach on the organization of child protection services in relation to coordination versus fragmentation and profit versus professionalism. Concludes that the idea that a market force approach to child protection will lead to…

Problems of adult education in Turkey, such as funding, research, teacher training, and coordination, are related to politics and to the high degree of centralized decision making. Decentralization with community participation could improve training for adult educators and delivery of adult education provision. (SK)

Discusses program implementation as a task-oriented process. Highlights details to consider for effective program delivery and offers suggestions for dealing with unexpected circumstances that may arise throughout the course of a program. Includes a program implementation checklist to be used as a practical planning tool when thinking through the…

Provides suggestions to mental health personnel for improving the delivery of therapeutic staff support in the public schools. Written from the school district's perspective, article provides basic information on how schools function, along with suggestions for improving communication with school personnel. (GCP)

Educators may not want to avoid technology altogether, but it must be approached with circumspection and investigation in order for it to be applied properly. (SK)

Thirty-one outreach coordinators of graded specialized schools for students with visual impairments completed questionnaires concerning the range of outreach services provided by their schools. These services included early intervention, preschool programs, school-age programs, academic-year programs, and innovative teacher training programs.…

Analyzes the delivery system of environmental education at the tertiary level in relation to higher education attendance rate. Describes the characteristics of the delivery system in countries such as China, India, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. (Author/MM)

Describes experiences in developing a multi-program economic evaluation and costing study of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), a widely studied community mental health treatment model. The project description shows how the worlds of research and service delivery can collaborate to come to symbiotic resolutions. (Author/SLD)

The authors, as leaders in a public child welfare system, have teamed together and reached out to their private sector partners in a large, rural county in western Colorado. This effort was part of a comprehensive, community-wide effort to redesign and fundamentally improve the entire child welfare service delivery system. Across the country in…

E-Learning is the confluence of many technology-based learning opportunities. It employs technologies as part of the delivery systems, as tools to assist with the representation of ideas, and most recently as the integration of processes and the topics to be learned. This paper reviews some of the approaches adopted by Asian schools and charts the…

Background: Information on the numbers of adult persons (aged 20 years and over) with intellectual disability (ID) is rarely collated at a national level. This is an impediment to service planning especially for a changing population. Methods: A database of all persons in receipt of ID services has been operating in the Republic of Ireland since…

"Better inter-agency working" has been the oft-quoted remedy to many reviews of services to support vulnerable children and young people, and yet outside the realms of tightly focused specialist teams it seems to be very difficult to achieve. Georgina Glenny here reviews three case studies of interdisciplinary and inter-agency working to examine…

Relationships among patterns of access to online notes, examination performance, and student absenteeism were examined. Students who made more frequent use of online notes performed at a higher level on course examinations. Students most frequently accessed online notes while corresponding lecture content was being presented in class, but this…

With the rapid advances in technology, several online learning tools come onto the stage. Being an online learning delivery tool to support a full range of teaching and learning activities conducted by educational institutions Moodle facilitates online content creation and collaboration by entailing various social and communication tools that…