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Kansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1978
Title IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act calls for maintenance of a state "innovative-exemplary program" to work with local education agencies in the development and dissemination of new educational projects. To date, over 126 Kansas districts have been involved in this program. This booklet discusses a number of…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1978
This publication presents brief descriptions of 48 innovative demonstration programs that have been developed, implemented, and evaluated by New York school districts under provisions of Title IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Under Title IV-C, the demonstration districts have been provided funds to cover the cost of aiding other…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Demonstration Programs, Diffusion, Educational Innovation
Loucks, Susan F.; And Others – 1982
Based on a local site sample of 146 school districts, this volume (the second in a series of 10) describes school improvement efforts supported by 4 different federal strategies and representative programs: interpersonal linkage of validated practices (National Diffusion Network), commercial distribution (Bureau of Education for the Handicapped…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1976
This booklet presents brief descriptions of 13 demonstration projects developed by school districts and other educational organizations in New York, using funds granted under Title IV-C of the Elementary Secondary Education Act. Each of the program descriptions includes the title of the demonstration project, a brief discussion of the project and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Weinman, Janice – 1978
This paper addresses three issues--current constraints on the local level that contribute to failures to bring about innovation, conditions that have been isolated as significant to the success of the change process, and ways in which Title IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act could encourage the presence of these favorable…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Educational Change
Shive, Glenn; Eiseman, Jeffrey W. – 1982
In the fifth volume of a 10-volume report, the development of federal dissemination-related school improvement policy is depicted through short case studies of nine distinctly different programs sponsored by the Department of Education: Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title III/IV-C, the Joint Dissemination Review Panel, the National…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
Huberman, A. Michael; And Others – 1982
The fourth volume of a 10-volume report, this document provides a synthesis and analysis of indepth ethnographic case studies of 12 school districts engaged in school improvement efforts in a subsample of the study's 146 districts. All districts were implementing new practices, seven using National Diffusion Network innovations and five developing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Berman, Paul – 1977
This testimony summarizes the results of the Rand Corporation's change agent study of educational innovations funded by federal programs. The second section consists of policy recommendations for ESEA Title IV Consolidated Programs, Part C. The study aimed to help improve federal policies by describing how the process of innovation and educational…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
