Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a nationwide program that

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An interactive telecommunication network established by Kentucky Educational Television was used to deliver a series of four inservice education sessions on the topics of learning disabilities and adaptive teaching techniques. Participants included 155 educators from 19 school districts located in rural areas of Kentucky. Participants' reactions indicated that interactive television was an acceptable format for delivery of inservice education. Implications for design and delivery of distance learning inservice training are discussed.

A theoretical and empirical study of professional education in the human service disciplines is described. Seven highly generalizable, cognitive, and affective skill domains are postulated as broad goals worthy of incorporating into such programs. Data are analyzed from several groups of helping professionals (N = 240). These persons perceive all the skill domains to be required for effective professional practice and to be relatively teachable. Excepting basic professional‐technical skill areas, these persons are less sure that such competencies should be used as criteria for selection and evaluation of students and certain the skill areas are not presently used in this manner. The existence of this paradox bodes ill for efforts to establish affective curricular goals.

a seventh grader, slams into the room and throws her purse on the table, pulling out her new perfume and asking people to smell it, yanking out her hairspray and her lipstick, and all the while talking over anything that anyone is saying in the room, telling about her day and how she feels about her last class. In sixth grade, she was failing all of her classes and telling her father her teachers were losing her homework assignments. At this point, an early intervention support system-an academic case manager-intervened. He began by speaking with her father and sending him weekly progress reports. The case manager advocated with teachers to allow Mary to complete missing assignments and helped her with them. He built a mentoring relationship with her and her family. Although Mary still has trouble in math class, currently she is passing all her other classes. Her goal is to make Honor Roll.