To test the effectiveness of a design for stimulating curriculum change, seven home economics teachers were trained to serve as leaders of seven 2-hour inservice workshops which were designed to motivate the experimental group of 79 secondary home economics teachers to incorporate wage-earning emphases in their programs. All the participants,…

This report covers the first five months of the Sedro Wolley project which has been designed by representatives from Huxley College, the Sedro Wooley School District, and the Northwest Environmental Education Center as an experimental model. The project proposes to investigate through action at the school district level the nature and content of…

This manual, an outgrowth of a pilot project (at De Anza College in California) which provided college education for nursing assistants to replace on-the-job training, presents: (1) a description of the pilot project (philosophy and purpose, history and background, value, problem areas, and recommendations), (2) process for implementing a nursing…

Processing of the three major groups of modern glasses is described. Low-melting-point glasses and the roles of their ingredients are discussed. Other processes (calcining, melting, fining the batch, annealing, testing for stress, colorants) are explained. Finally, a secondary-level pilot program for glass technology is suggested. (CT)

A discussion of a possible program of career education in the elementary and secondary grades by the Deputy Commissioner for Occupational and Adult Education in the Office of Education. (JM)

Outlines the findings of a qualitative and primarily formative evaluation of Louisiana's Networking Infrastructures for Education pilot program to help develop a statewide educational technology network. This evaluation primarily focused on efforts to incorporate Internet applications for math and science curriculum in elementary and secondary…

Following 2 years of planning with community members, local university staff, district administrators, teachers, and parents, the Wichita (Kansas) Public Schools Board of Education drafted, approved, and funded a state-of-the-art middle-school conceptual model that was implemented in fall 1989. The pilot project process promoted teacher and…

A school district's international coordinator and a primary school teacher of 20 second-graders from 10 different ethnic groups implemented a practicum designed to improve the understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity among students, parents, and teachers at the Ithan Elementary School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The practicum also…

The major purpose of the study was to develop and test curriculum materials for three entry level gainful employment courses: Child Care Services, Clothing Services, Food Services. A second objective was to formulate recommendations for policies and procedures to follow in initiating and developing gainful employment programs in home economics.…

This report summarizes the characteristics of the teachers participating in the Social Learning Curriculum. Characteristics covered here are teacher age, sex, years of teaching experience, educational background, and the type and amount of supervision, with each item broken down into several subcategories for frequency counting. The data are…

This report summarizes the characteristics of the students participating in the Social Learning Curriculum. The information on these educable mentally retarded students includes: sex, age, IQ, tests upon which intelligence estimates are based, year of test administration, physical or emotional handicaps, and the number of children considered…

This project was funded under ESEA Title III and four subcontracts with Research for Better Schools. The Title III aspect of the project focused on curriculum change in the fields of language arts, social sciences, and teacher training. Complete reports on each of the following have been included: 1) the Social Studies Pilot Programs as described…

Algebra I and General Mathematics courses using tutorial instructional programs under computer control supplemented by "off-line" materials (included in the computer controlled testing) have been developed for a ninth grade student population. This summary report (preliminary reports are EM 011 046 and EM 011 050, and the teacher's manual is EM…

This report covers the first year of the pilot program described in SO 002 228. The basic objective of the project is exploration of the meaning of environmental education at the community level. It aims at a K-12 environmental curriculum that is sequential, integrated, holistic, process-, field-, problem-, and community-oriented, and initiated…