The final report of the project on community-based recreation for the handicapped details training activities, materials and evaluation findings. A chart lists approximately 40 primary training activities with information on date and location, faculty resource person, number attending, number of requests, and number of evaluations. The primary…

The last in a series of reports (EC 114 401-409) on recreation for handicapped persons reviews the history and current role of the National Consortium on Physical Education and Recreation for the Handicapped (NCPERH), a national advocacy organization. Information on advocacy in the national scene covers such aspects as the White House Conference…

This report covers trends in discipline policies and policy-making and alternative and innovative school programs designed to diminsh behavioral problems in the classroom. The programs range from improvements in a school's physical plant to specific action plans for teachers and options in the curriculum designed to stimulate alienated students.…

The author reviews the history, philosophy, and administrative organization of New York City's Mayor's Office for the Handicapped (MOH). The office's bill of rights is set forth and its activities in advocacy, particularly for physically handicapped people are recounted. The beginnings of the MOH are traced from reactions to a 1967 order to ban…

This small booklet describes the Affective Education Program established in Philadelphia in 1967. The program uses various classroom techniques such as the problems, plans, and sharing classroom structure to foster student leadership and cooperation; using group roles, feedback, and processing; and being responsive to student concerns. In…

This report provides an overview of the major program activities for fiscal year 1978 and 1979 of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It is intended to give readers a clear idea of the structure and functions of NCES and does not present any actual statistical data. The first section summarizes the center's purpose and objectives.…

The mission of Project Leadership is to aid school administrators in the identification of their high priority goals and then to provide educational experiences geared toward the attainment of those goals for both the individual administrator and for others in the administrator's district. Subscribing school districts may enroll as few as one…

This report, including statistical data, on the Parole and Pre-Release Employment Project which has been sponsored by the California Employment Development Department and funded through LEAA, covers the history, need, and purpose of the Program in context with the special employment problems of the offender in the San Francisco Bay Area. The…

One of the purposes of the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) is to promote the flow of information about innovative programs in education that the participating member states in Asia have undertaken in the context of their needs and priorities. In order to identify and document the innovative programs, APEID invited…

This report describes the fiscal year 1977-78 program and plans for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It is intended to give readers a clear idea of the structure and functions of NCES and does not present any actual statistical data. The report consists of three main sections. Section 1, "NCES Policies, Procedures, and…

The Exemplary Projects Program of the U.S. Department of Justice's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration is a systematic method of identifying outstanding criminal justice programs throughout the country, verifying their achievements, and publicizing them widely. This brochure is part of an attempt to publicize three operations. The first is a…

This is the sixth annual evaluation report of the South Carolina Advisory Council on Vocational and Technical Education. Information is provided about program growth in terms of enrollment figures, changes in enrollment from 1973-74 to 1974-75, and number and types of programs. The State goals for vocational and technical education are presented,…

The International Extension College (IEC), which exists to make knowledge available to the Third World about distance teaching and its relevance, is discussed. So far most of the work of the IEC has been in Africa. By setting up three colleges, and working with others it has begun to show how distance teaching with the use of print materials,…

Competency-Based Teacher Education (CBTE) is covered from the standpoint of organization, operation, and management. Organizational aspects include (a) clarification of the roles of administrators, professors, students, and school districts; (b) reorganization patterns of the traditional administrative configurations; (c) reallocation of human,…

Details are given of the background and organization of the Curriculum Revision and Instruction in Mathematics at the Elementary Level (CRIMEL) program for undergraduates at The Ohio State University. The first three years of the program are discussed; administrative problems in grouping students for instruction, attempts to use multimedia methods…