A number of methodological conclusions and common recommendations for all regions of the Belorussian SSR on the compilations of long-range plans for the development and location of the school network in rural regions are suggested. (Author/KM)

After defining developmental education as referring to processes that expand the physical, emotional, educational, artistic, scientific, and political spheres of diverse ethnic and cultural communities within a nation, the author discusses the case of the Loma people of Liberia. (JM)

Discusses four non-vocational trends in agricultural education and six arguments favoring inclusion of agricultural education as part of the general education program. (SB)

Describes SEL's three major programs and three auxiliary projects, all of which are aimed at alleviating educational deprivation. (LS)

The present top-priority task of public education agencies is to strengthen rural schools with teaching personnel. Special attention must be given to training teachers in vocational-technical schools that prepare specialists for the countryside. (Author)

Discusses self-contained units developed by the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory which extend the curriculum offerings of small schools. (SB)

Discusses briefly a practical interdisciplinary educational program which would offer the patient early and continued treatment. The program involves improved and uniform treatment requiring the training and coordination of all deliverers of health care in the community, with the major responsibility resting with professional personnel.…

Increasing importance is attached to developmental instruction in which the assimilation of knowledge and skills in the fundamentals of agriculture goes hand in hand with increased educational activity on the part of pupils and is organically linked with the formation of a scientific world view and with their intellectual and rounded development.…

Indicates that changing needs, increasing numbers of adult learners, and new technologies are stimulating innovative continuing education in rural America. Identifies issues that must be resolved if access to and quality of educational services for rural adults are to improve. (JOW)

Describes the King William County, Virginia gifted program, which was begun in 1977, in terms of its two components (summer enrichment within the school and at the local community college and curriculum adaptations during the school year to meet individual needs). (AH)

Describes the creation and operation of a day care center for 24 children, aged 3-5, of the employees of the Corning Glassworks sponsored day care facilities in the United States. (NEC)

Discusses Alaska's Centralized Correspondence Studies program which offers arts electives to the state's rural, isolated, secondary students. Examples of student art work and poetry are included. (SJL)