Broadcasting

May Shiers' Bibliography of the History of Electronics (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972—$8.50)

R.F. Pocock and G.R.M. Garratt's The Origins of Maritime Radio: The Story of the Introduction of Wireless Telegraphy in the Royal Navy between 1896 and 1900 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972—about $2.50, paper)

Art Chipman's KMED: The First Half Century (KMED, P.O. Box 10, Medford, Oregon 97501 —$1.00, paper)

Anthony B. Neany Sr.'s Radio-TV Hypnosis: Mass Killers of Jobs and Gross National Product (Brooklyn: Pageant-Poseiden Ltd, 644 Pacific St., 1972—$5.95)

Marvin Kitman's The Marvin Kitman TV Show (New York: Outerbridge & Lazard, 1972—$5.95)     

Journalism

Marvin Barrett, Rich News, Poor News: The Sixth Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism (New York: Crowell, 1978—$12.95/6.95)

Dan Nimmo and Robert L. Savage, Candidates and Their Images: Concepts, Methods, and Findings (Santa Monica, Calif.: Goodyear Publishing, 1976—price not given, paper)

David Bother's How to Appraise and Improve Your Daily Newspaper: A Manual for Readers (Disability Rights Center, P.O. Box 19367, Washington D.C. 20036—$10.00 institutions/$5.00 individuals, paper)

David Shaw's Journalism Today: A Changing Press for a Changing America (New York: Harper's College Press (Harper & Row), 1977—$9.95/5.95)

Richard Weiner's Professional's Guide to Publicity (Richard Weiner Inc., 888 Seventh Ave., N.Y. 10019—$7.95/6.50)     

THE LIFE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR OLDER ADULTS: AN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL MODEL

The question of what is uniquely possible for the older adult learner is seldom asked by adult educators. Dealing with a population whose educational experiences are largely pedogogical, instructional programs have often attempted to continue this model of teacher‐selected content and methodology. This paper is a review of an experimental educational program designed to provide experiential activities related to learning needs and potentials of the older adult. The nature of the format allowed participants maximum opportunity to. identify and achieve personal learning goals. Evaluation procedures were designed to test the hypothesis that older adults respond meaningfully to programs designed to meet their needs rather than the educator's preconceptions. Results of the study indicate successful achievement of the goals of the project and an expanded level of psychosocial functioning of the older adults.     

Education and Older Adults at the University of the Third Age

This article reports a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta. In educational gerontology, a critical perspective demands the exposure of how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad forms, combinations, and complexities, are manifest in late-life learning initiatives. Fieldwork conducted at the University of the Third Age (UTA) in Malta uncovered the political nature of elder-learning, especially with respect to three intersecting lines of unequality—namely, positive aging, elitism, and gender. A cautionary note is, therefore, warranted at the dominant positive interpretations of UTAs since late-life learning, as any other education activity, is not politically neutral.     

Field-Based Evaluation of Two-Tiered Instruction for Enhancing Kindergarten Phonological Awareness

Research Findings: This study reports on the outcomes of a multisite, two-tiered, response-to-intervention instructional model for delivering phonological awareness instruction and intervention to kindergartners. Fifty-seven kindergartners from 3 classrooms participated in a supplemental phonological awareness program, and 56 kindergartners from 3 classrooms received the prevailing school-adopted literacy curriculum. All children in the supplemental condition received supplemental classroom-based phonological awareness instruction in addition to the adopted literacy curriculum. At mid-year, 6 low literacy achievers were identified in each supplemental classroom (n = 18) to participate in an additional 12-week small-group intervention. The classroom-based supplemental curriculum did not produce statistically significant gains for typically achieving children on measures of letter–sound knowledge, word recognition, or developmental spelling. However, an add-on tier of supplemental instruction exerted a substantial advantage for low-achieving children on a measure of developmental spelling. Practice or Policy: Results suggest that a 2-tiered intervention model provides an effective means for improving the literacy outcomes of low-achieving kindergarten children.     

Wireless is changing the policy calculus for municipal broadband

Historically, the justification for municipal provisioning of “last-mile” communications infrastructure has focused on the natural monopoly aspect of wireline infrastructure. Growing interest in wireless ISPs, municipal hot spots, and access to public space for siting wireless infrastructure suggests new and expanded opportunities for local government participation in telecommunication services. This paper examines the implications of emerging wireless technologies for the policy debate over whether municipalities should be playing an active role in providing last-mile broadband services and, if so, what the nature of that role should be.