The report evaluates the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative Career Education Project in eastern Kentucky. The project staff involved personnel from Morehead University, Eastern Kentucky University, Bowling Green and Owensboro, and from the Kentucky State Department of Education in workshops, inservice training, demonstration units, and…

The introduction of the open classroom concept, individualized instruction, independent study, use of technology, and other innovations provide supportive evidence that there may be new ways to minimize the limitations imposed on elementary school physical education programs by teachers, students' ability, or facilities. In view of this, a…

The reading program planning procedures presented in this manual are based upon material developed by the National Right to Read Program. The contents include: "Introduction"; "Step One: Right to Read Center Data," which discusses the establishment of baseline data for a particular school; "Step Two: Needs Assessment…

The New England Consortium for the Right to Read Plan of Action is designed to assist participating school systems in meeting the national Right to Read goals by 1980. The purpose of the New England project differs from that of most projects in that it seeks to eliminate the possibility of failure rather than to deal with failure after it occurs.…

Project USHER is designed to help community colleges implement a humanistic management system. This objective is to be achieved by giving each participating college the capability to redesign its own educational system through implementing a planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation system (PPBE) within the context of participative…

This bulletin presents a case study of the development of a school volunteer program in Dade County, Florida. Part one, entitled "Initiating the School Volunteer Program," discusses the following aspects of the program: (a) determination of needs, (b) preparation of objectives, (c) planning and sequencing activities, (d) identification of…

Project EFFECT is a program for implementing educational change that is currently being used by the St. Louis Board of Education. After initial inservice training, the faculty of a school develops a plan for improving the school program. Subsequent phases are outlined for the inclusion of parental advice, implementation of the program, and…

This document reviews the first year of progress for the Performance-Based Education (PBE) project at Northern Montana College. The project is a projected five-year (five-phase) plan to adapt curricular offerings to a performance-based standard. The five phases will focus on the following activities, respectively: (a) identification of…

This is the final in a series of evaluative documentations on the 1976 Teacher Corps Conference. It is based on an extensive review of the information submitted on pre- and post-conference assessment forms, on individual session forms, on project team forms, and on extensive and numerous written comments. The focus of the critique was to analyze…

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) implies the necessity to program the sequence of steps leading to the completion of a product. It takes cognizance of the need to define clearly each event and recognizes the obligation to describe the start and/or the completion of the interdependent activities. Essentially, the PERT chart is a…

The author describes an English as a Second Language (ESL) course she taught in Fiji (where English is the official language of commerce and government) for adult speakers of a Hindi dialect or Fijian. She discusses evaluation of student needs and specific exercises for adult ESL classes. (CH)

Reviews and discusses objectives of the humanities and social science (HSS) component in undergraduate engineering programs, examining variations in HSS requirements among engineering disciplines. Also suggests some innovative approaches intended to resolve the conflict between the objectives and the current reality in engineering curricula. (JN)

The need for certification of supervising teachers to help insure a high quality of classroom teachers is explored. Advantages of certification and suggestions for designing and implementing a certification program are offered. (DF)

Describes how a farm program might assist any camp to offer experiential educational opportunities, improve attitudes toward food/nutrition, expand interpersonal relationships, develop work values and responsibility, teach history of food production/hunger. Details program goals, seasonal agricultural work, staffing, tools/equipment, daily…

Many institutions have adopted the guidelines on AIDS in "The General Statement on Institutional Response to AIDS," written by the American Council on Education in cooperation with the American College Health Association. Three steps for developing a campus response include designate campus committee, develop education program, and…