In order to provide more participation by students in making the day-to-day decisions of academic life, the Southside School in Durham, North Carolina is presently involved in a 5-year experimental program for disadvantaged children. A part of that program is a pilot project of individualized instruction which permits continuous progress with…

The Durham Education Improvement Program (EIP) seeks to develop new organizational patterns and instructional systems in ongoing classrooms which would foster the educational and social development of disadvantaged North Carolina children. A small-scale model school system (consisting of three schools in target areas and a laboratory school) was…