Describes a successful program in a Connecticut high school to integrate educable mentally retarded (EMR) students into the regular typing class, using individualized methods of instruction, adding one intermediate typing course for EMR students, and interweaving basic English skills into the typing instruction. (MF)

Describes President Carter's proposed system to give welfare and other low-income families a chance to earn their way out of poverty. Focus is on the Jobs for Families component which combines the Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Supplemental Security Income for the aged, blind, and disabled; and Food Stamps in a single cash assistance…

Preservice field experience and campus activities are integrated to combine theory and practice in human interaction, informal classrooms, teaching-learning skills, the integrated day, and subject matter development. The student co-author describes the way that she experienced each component. (Author)

Community is most meaningful as it has an impact on the lives of all its members, so exhilarating because it is seldom experienced in an educational setting. Hopefully, the focus of education could be "learning how to live" not just "learning how to make a living". (Author)

Presents the objectives and philosophy, qualities of trainer and trainees, procedures and methodology, and evaluation techniques necessary for an effective writing skills program within a business organization. (RL)

Describes a pilot program in small-group counseling designed primarily as a corrective program for junior high students with serious behavior problems. It attempts to make wholesome changes in student attitudes. (Author/IRT)

Describes an effort to develop a cooperative network of university-based social scientists and representatives from various education-related organizations within a community for the purpose of exchanging their limited resources in effective and mutually productive ways. (JG)

Career development needs of gifted and talented students are discussed, and activities of the Research and Guidance Laboratory (Madison, Wisconsin) are reviewed. (SBH)

Described are the major components of a treatment program designed to help severely behaviorally handicapped children (2 to 16 years old) develop the necessary skills to function in regular classrooms or special education classes. (Author/SBH)

A week long residential camp was held for handicapped children of Whatcom County, Washington. (GW)

A revised orientation week program at Flinders University is described that emphasized the "care group" concept in which the new students were assigned to a small, carefully organized group within the larger group. Support programs such as one for study skills are underway. (LBH)

The use of contracts between parents and youths, specifying in detail the responsibilities and rewards for changes in behavior was shown effective in improving family relations and in reducing recidivism in juvenile offenders. (MS)

Launched from a social studies class, the institute for Political and Legal Education shows students how government really operates by getting them involved in it. (Editor)

Explores the hypothesis that students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grade who were exposed to the "fraction ruler" as a manipulative for exploring basic fraction operations would perform more successfully in addition, subtraction and multiplication problems than students taught fraction operations by the traditional method. (Author/RK)