Milwaukee (Wisconsin) has two schools that offer courses in word processing as a part of their business education curriculum. The author describes how the two programs were established. (MLF)

Drawing on their own experiences, the authors suggest starting a program for gifted children by developing community support, choosing an appropriate type of program, assessing staff perceptions of the need for the program, identifying gifted students, developing a curriculum, involving the faculty, securing funding, and choosing the evaluation…

Professionals, paraprofessionals, and parents (N=207) of visually handicapped students were surveyed to determine needed topics for a conference on educational issues of students with visual impairments. Topic areas receiving highest ratings included low vision, parent role, public policy, individualized education programs, and multiple…

Discusses industry-based industrial arts: components of this base; structure of the base; and organizing industry-based industrial arts programs using processing, management, and model enterprise modules. (CT)

A paraeducator model uses community volunteers, including parents, to implement individualized educational programs for gifted and talented students. (CL)

Reviews Peru's efforts to bring about the planned development of scientific, technological, social, educational, and cultural information, including information organized by libraries, documentation centers, and other nonconventional agencies. Central to this concept are actions planned for a national information policy to be coordinated with…

The research described in this article was undertaken to discover the extent to which the SHAred Process Evaluation System (SHAPES) model of the community development process can be said to describe what actually happens in a community development project. The model and its development and instrumentation are described. (Author)

This article suggests a number of ways in which Title VIII might be strengthened by amendments when Congress next considers reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. (CT)

Describes the Circulation Management Project being developed by the Empire State College of the State University of New York--a program designed to upgrade the newspaper circulation department. (HOD)

Discusses ways of identifying stress and its sources and then changing it by altering behavior patterns. Guidelines are provided for implementing a stress management program. (Author/MLF)

Describes Merrill Lynch's Account Executive Simulation Exercise: a three-hour simulation designed to evaluate job applicants' potential for success as account executives from their performance in the role of an account executive. (CT)

Reviews 10 steps which serve as guidelines to simplify the creative process of producing a video training program: (1) audience analysis, (2) task analysis, (3) definition of objective, (4) conceptualization, (5) visualization, (6) storyboard, (7) video storyboard, (8) evaluation, (9) revision, and (10) production. (LRA)

The need to articulate a high school home economics program with the junior high or elementary feeder schools is examined. Contains a suggested plan for developing articulation through the establishment of a better curriculum for student learning. An illustration of a sample plan is included. (CT)

Describes a project designed to use television public service announcements to present basic nutrition concepts and the nutritional choices in the marketplace in a format that would reach the handicapped deaf and the nonhandicapped as well. (CT)