Analysis of the findings revealed patterns involving caseworker--family contact, caseworker stability and experience, and caseload ratio. The initially favorable impact of the assets that an agency puts into the service of children placed in foster care diminishes over time. This was indicated by a five-year study involving seventy agencies in the…

Describes the role of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in increasing educational productivity and equality of opportunity. Examines a number of key questions concerning the interrelationship of CAI with the traditional education structure. (Authors/WM)

Suggests that current reading instruction and tests fail to teach or measure a student's ability to use reading to solve problems, apply ideas, detect an author's bias, evaluate personal biases, compare themselves with a literary character, or to synthesize a new idea. Suggests questions principals might consider in purchasing materials,…

Describes a public school program for educating 5-year-olds that emphasizes the children before the subject matter, looks at how and what the children learn rather than how and what the teachers teach, creates more open classrooms, fosters interaction within the school and between school and community, and achieves a greater commonality of purpose…

The visiting psychologist program is designed to bring mental health professionals up to date in their field, but long term benefits of the program have been difficult to document. (Editor/GB)

Article reports on efforts to evaluate and to document behavioral changes which occur in nursing practice and on efforts to determine the effect of continuing education on patient care. (GB)

Argues that only if revenue sharing is genuinely responsive to citizen needs and in fact, secures self-initiated involvement of citizens in program execution will it be ultimately successful in developing self-supporting individuals and communities. (JF)

A two-week multimedia drug education program was evaluated. Twenty-five per cent of professed users claimed to have stopped using, the 50

The anthropology materials, designed for ninth and tenth grade students and focusing on understanding of human behavior through acquisition of scientific investigation, are assessed. (SM)

Paper describes the organization of a program established by Intermediate School District 101, State of Washington, involving thirteen rural school districts during the second semester of 1971. (CB)