The Higher Education Act as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) contained several provisions to increase access to higher education for youth and adults with intellectual disability. One outcome of these provisions was the appropriation of funds by Congress to create a model demonstration program aimed at developing and…

MDRC is conducting the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project under a contract with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As part of the multisite Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, MDRC,…

The report provides descriptions of 65 projects in the states of Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin which were identified by a peer nomination process as representing unique and exemplary practices in special education. The one page description of each project includes program title; information on population served; a one…

The purpose of this demonstration project was to provide orientation and mobility services for the blind in Missouri. Emphasis was placed on mobility training, because the loss of mobility by the blind person appeared to be the most severe problem. Training for the blind individual began at home, where he was taught to move about comfortably in…

This training manual provides information needed to meet the minimum EPA standards for certification as a commercial applicator of pesticides in the demonstration and research pest control category. The text discusses pesticide-organism interactions such as penetration, transport, accumulation, and biological magnification. Integrating pesticides…

ACTIVITIES ARE DISCUSSED WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THE SECOND YEAR OF THE PROPOSED 5-YEAR "MADISON PROJECT," A COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT AIMED AT GIVING SCHOOL CHILDREN AN EXPERIENCE IN THE CREATIVE AND OPEN-ENDED FORM OF MATHEMATICS AS IT IS KNOWN TO MATHEMATICIANS. THE REPORT OF THE FIRST YEAR (1962) BORE THE SAME TITLE AS THIS REPORT.…

Project IDEA (Innovation Dissemination for the Education of Adults), a 2-year experimental program in the utilization of innovation, was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of a comprehensive strategy for disseminating and facilitating the utilization of selected program innovations in adult education. Implementation of this strategy involved…

Last fall, the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education published the results of a five-state demonstration project aimed at developing common state-level benchmarks for student learning for its fifty-state report card, "Measuring Up." One of the instruments used in this Pew-funded project was the Collegiate Learning…

THIS IS THE FINAL REPORT OF A 3-YEAR PROJECT CARRIED OUT COOPERATIVELY BY THE SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, THE MISSOURI STATE DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, AND THE ST. LOUIS JEWISH EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL SERVICE. A WORK EXPERIENCE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED TO SERVE CLIENTS BETWEEN 16 AND 21 YEARS WITH IQ'S PRIMARILY FROM…

In this annual report to the nonpublic participant schools of Project PEP (Providing Equitable Participation), 39 exemplary instructional improvement programs written by the schools are described. Schools were encouraged to make long-range improvement plans by focusing on acquisition of Title IV-B supplementary instructional materials and library…

THIS REPORT COVERS THE THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS OF THE 5-YEAR "MADISON PROJECT" DESIGNED TO DEMONSTRATE AN UPDATING PROCESS FOR THE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. THE ATTEMPT WAS NOT ONLY TO BROADEN THE OVERALL CURRICULUM FROM GRADES 2 THROUGH 8 BY ADDING PORTIONS AND ASPECTS OF SUCH DISCIPLINES AS ALGEBRA AND…

Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this document about Missouri ESEA Title III exemplary programs. Nineteen projects completing the third year of operation, thirteen…

This informal study sought to determine the effectiveness of paraprofessionals in extension work dealing with the development and expansion of youth programs in disadvantaged areas of St. Louis. Program objectives were: (1) to reach more youth in educational programs sensitive to the life style of urban youth; (2) to develop new ways of recruiting…

The 1975-76 program aimed to: raise or maintain the rate of gain in computational and communicational skills of each student in the tutorial program; improve the computational and communicational skills of each student in the "Career Development" program; increase each "Career Development" student's awareness of, specific…