The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has many opportunities to apply expertise and creativity to the solution of perplexing human problems. It is much more rare, however, to find oneself at the nexus of a set of opportunities that make it possible to make a greater contribution than the original objective. Macedonia's commitment to…

Explains what the Office of Child Development (OCD) is, and describes its goals and activities. (HMV)

This collection of PowerPoint slides describes the Reading Excellence Program, a $260 million federal grant program that will competitively award grants to states to improve reading. It begins with a reference to the book "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children," then presents a graph indicating percentage of fourth graders not able to…

Two units of the School Based Health Education Project in Howard County, Indiana, have been revised. The Little Smoky unit on smoking for second graders stresses the effects of smoking on the body systems while the Counter Conscious unit examines the uses of over-the-counter substances. (JMF)

The articles in this document describe various aspects of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Program. Two articles compare the CETA program to the WPA Federal Arts Program of the 1930s and describe various job opportunities CETA has provided for out-of-work artists. A photographic essay project of older adults, undertaken by CETA…

A colloquy, "New-style Primary Education: Achievements and Prospects," was held in Brussels by the Ministry of Education of The Dutch-speaking sector of Belgium. In the first section of this report, the colloquy is viewed in the contexts of the New-style Primary Education (VLO) project of the Ministry of National Education, and the…

This is a one year evaluation of Project BUILD, a program combining bilingual and special education and providing services to 100 children from grades 1-6 in East Harlem, New York. Section I of the evaluation gives descriptive and background information on this special program for the bilingual learning disabled. Section II sets forth the…

This booklet describes various components of the America Reads Challenge program, which will mobilize AmeriCorps members, skilled reading specialists, and trained volunteer reading tutors to ensure that every student can read independently and well by the end of third grade. The booklet begins with advice on how to get involved right now and…

Despite the demonstrated social value of out-of-school time and community school initiatives, such programs lack dedicated funding sources available to support their efforts. This strategy brief argues that Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act can serve as an important funding source for out-of-school time programs and community…

Blalock FIRST (Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching) is a 3-year, federally funded intervention program designed to increase school attendance, student achievement and self-esteem, and parent and community involvement in school activities among low-income housing project residents. As a way of easing strained parent-school…

Approximately 288 programs conducted in various counties of Georgia during the regular school year or summer of 1969 and funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act are here reported in summary fashion. The following information is provided concerning each program: name of system, name of project, regular or summer…

In 1991, the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families challenged members of the House of Representatives to seek out innovative, high quality child care programs in their districts. The programs were to serve as models for states and local jurisdictions or for employers and others in the public and private sectors who were trying to…

The final report of a five-year federally-funded bilingual education program in four schools of the the Sunnyside School District in Tucson, Arizona, is presented. The following areas are addressed: (1) student enrollment patterns, (2) the instructional program for kindergarten through fifth grade and its development, (3) staff development efforts…

Based on observations of all Title I reading teachers participating in the Program for Optional Assignment in District 20K, Brooklyn, New York, this report summarizes the program's policies, practices, and student achievement results. The program proposal called for assigning special reading teachers to work with second through ninth grade…

Seven programs funded under Title I Umbrella and Impact Aid and carried out in elementary and intermediate/junior high schools of District 24, Queens, New York, are described in this report. The programs are: (1) Strengthened Basic Skills Program; (2) Diagnosis and Treatment of Reading Disabilities; (3) Diagnostic/Prescriptive Mathematics Program;…