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Discusses teenage depression and a school curriculum aimed at its prevention. Curriculum at Strath Haven High School outside Philadelphia that integrates positive psychology into academics; Martin E. P. Seligman, the University of Pennsylvania psychologist and author of "Authentic Happiness", who has spent a decade redefining psychology as a way to optimize human potential; Prevention of depression by giving children the tools to deal with challenges faced in high school and life. INSET: The Art of Resilience.

Reports on black studies programs at Temple University and Princeton. Debate about what should be incorporated in black studies programs; View that Temple attempts to redress the shortcoming's of Eurocentric perspectives; Lack of a black studies department at Princeton.

This article looks at a program at Pennsylvania State University that seeks to help students speak up so they can make friends, graduate from college and pass an interview. Christine Stuart runs a class called "Speech Anxiety" where she helps students learn to speak up and sound confident. Other universities are offering these "reticence" courses and each student accepted in the class must demonstrate the need for help.

The article reports that a federal judge has ruled that it was unconstitutional for a school district in Dover, Pennsylvania, to present intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in high school biology courses. In America's first case to test intelligent design's legal merits, John E. Jones III issued a stinging rebuke to its advocates and supported scientists who fought to ban intelligent design from the science curriculum. He also accused members of the Dover school board of lying to cover up religious motives. A Republican appointed by President George W. Bush, Jones concluded that intelligent design was not science.

WHEN Linda Lipsky taught a course called ''So You Want to Open a Restaurant'' at Temple University in Philadelphia, she deliberately made the business sound like a minefield. She warned her students that it is possible to lose their homes, their life savings, and even the rights to their own names. Her goal, she said, was ''to get two-thirds of them to quit.'' In fact, two of every three new restaurants, delis and food shops close within three years of opening, according to federal government statistics, the same failure rate for small businesses in general. ''It's very easy to fail if you know what you're doing, and even easier if you don't,'' said Ms. Lipsky, president of Linda Lipsky Restaurant Consultants, a firm based outside Philadelphia that has advised restaurant owners and chains for 20 years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on initiatives of district school boards in Pennsylvania and Georgia to include teaching of evolution in the curriculum.

Focuses on the proposal of professor Larry Hass to introduce magic as a part of education curriculum in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Purpose of Hass' proposal; Aim for a real education; Discipline in magic.

Discusses how students of online learning and virtual classrooms graduated from the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Mars, Pennsylvania. Success of the Center for Education Reform, a nonprofit organization that supports charter schools; How most students did not fit in at conventional schools; Consideration of the various types of learning and different curriculums used by cyberschools; Use of computers and phones as educational tools.

Looks at two of the subjects to be explored in a series of noncredit classes at the University of Pennsylvania called preceptorials, during the fall of 1998. Who teaches the classes; Number of students limited to a class; Length of the classes; Comments from Sarah Federman, a senior who is the director of the program, which began in 1996 to promote student-teacher interaction; Details on the courses.

Highlights the Engineering Vanguard Program of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Program's goal; How the program works; Additions being made by the National Action Council.

Details the Product Dissection course offered by Pennsylvania State University. Objectives of the course.