The development of Georgetown University Law Center's clinical law course, which involves law students teaching street law to high school students and inmates, is presented. Information on program origins, training and clinical experience of law students, street law curriculum, and the National Street Law Institute are included. (JMD)

During the past seven years, Florida State University has been directly involved in working with handicapped children in projects which provide pre- and inservice preparation for vocational and industrial arts teachers and direct educational services to handicapped pupils in the pupil schools. (BM)

Colleges of teacher education should give serious consideration to providing training programs to prepare community educators and inform prospective teachers and school administrators of the potential of the educative community. (JD)

Planning techniques described help students mesh their individual interests, values, and skills with a proposed internship, work/study, or volunteer experience through the application process itself. The application is valuable in clarifying needs and goals for the experiential project. (Author/LBH)

Describes a program involving four technology-oriented magnet high schools in Atlanta, Georgia, called Technology Quadrangle. Supported by private businesses and area universities, the program is based on the research consortium concept. Business involvement in curriculum design, internship opportunities, and the program's educational advantages…

Describes Brigham Young University's elementary rural teacher training program which has successfully provided rural student teaching experiences for over 250 prospective teachers since 1973. Details live-in experience, financial structure, reciprocal benefits, and school district-university cooperation in teacher preparation. (NEC)

A discussion of clinical experience in legal education finds it to be in a period of transition and looks ahead to what may be its structure, methodology, and content in another 25 years. (MSE)

An electrical engineering program in which a field experience component is used both to enhance training and to evaluate the program's outcomes is described. The curriculum development process is highlighted. (MSE)

The measured results of one community college's experience with cooperative education suggest that incorporating productive work experience into classroom-based curricula can achieve excellence and equality of opportunity, offering opportunities for disadvantaged students without compromising academic integrity. (MSE)

Reports no significant differences between the attitudes toward science teaching of students in campus-based and field-based teacher preparation programs. However, field-based teachers (N=39) were significantly more custodial in their pupil control ideology than teachers (N=43) in the campus-based program. (JN)

Poison Control Centers are being utilized by more schools of pharmacy each year as training sites for students. This paper discusses what such a center is, its services, changes anticipated in the poison center system in the next several years and how they may influence pharmacy education, specifically as it relates to clinical toxicology.…

Designers who are charged with creating online environments that support students' problem-solving efforts and instructors who are searching for instructional strategies to support students' asynchronous problem-solving efforts will find this paper useful. The paper describes a systematic approach for using computer-mediated bulletin boards to…

This paper provides a district perspective on efforts by a college of education and a public school system to increase student achievement in an urban environment using a field-based master's degree program as the vehicle for teacher professional development. The partnership resulted in a unique delivery system for graduate instruction that was…

This paper first examines how the graduate institute of teacher education at Bank Street College of Education, New York, has worked to foster reflective practice over time and across program components. It examines the mission and structures that have been enacted to this end and identifies ongoing challenges encountered. The paper first discusses…