Funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the project's reading specialists take over a teacher's classroom in order that the teacher may visit a demonstration center where good teaching practices are demonstrated in classroom situations. (NQ)

Working with the Humboldt County School District, the Fort McDermitt Indian Education Committee, and four Paiute Teacher aides, the University of Nevada developed a three-component project: a bilingual/bicultural reading text for K-4 Paiutes; an in-service training program in Native American education; and a pilot bilingual curriculum. (JC)

Project addresses the challenge of providing Spanish instruction in small, rural, public, and private schools in Nebraska and Iowa. The project added Spanish to the curriculum by providing extensive support in technology hardware and software to non-Spanish-speaking classroom teachers who reinforce weekly Spanish classes taught by non-certified…

This paper outlines the manner in which education is provided for children with intellectual disabilities in China, focusing on programs offered in two special primary schools and a special kindergarten. The paper concludes that there appears to be a very large group of school-aged children who remain unserved by the educational system, especially…

Describes programs for low-income families in Appalachia, including the Parents and Children Together program, which provides preschool lessons in a converted bread truck; the Christian Appalachian Project's infant stimulation program; and Sand Gap Elementary School's family resource center, offering a variety of parent education and child care…

Presents a project that involved the theater and social work departments of the University of South Dakota. The program's success depended on community acceptance, training for the local school teachers, presentation of the selected play, and careful classroom follow-up. (Author/BB)

Interviews, program documents, progress reports supplied by the secondary itinerant teacher, and results of a questionnaire survey conducted by the itinerant teacher provided information for a brief, interim evaluation of the Secondary Itinerant Teacher Service. The service has endeavored to help all students (including adults) enrolled with the…

Described in this publication is a comprehensive career education program which begins in Grade 1 and continues through Grade 12. Specifically developed for a rural, economically depressed area, the program includes a structuring of basic subjects around the theme of career opportunities and requirements in the world of work. The four segments of…

Preliminary findings from a study to develop a plan for a community educational television (ETV) system in Appalachian Maryland demonstrate the feasibility of integrating the ETV project and the Appalachian Applied Technology Satellite-F (ATS-F) experiment in inservice training for rural teachers. Through the community ETV project, undertaken by…

Describes the work of PETRA (Primary Teaching in Rural Areas), an aid-funded project that was set up to improve the standards of English language teaching in black primary schools in rural areas in South Africa. Focuses on the first phase of the project, during which teachers attended an inservice training course leading to an externally-validated…

The experimental Contact Teacher Centre at Winton State Primary School was established in March 1983 to expand the avenues of service delivery for 20 isolated Queensland primary school children from 14 families living within an 80 kilometer radius of Winton. The aims of the Centre were to: (1) assist correspondence pupils with their work; (2)…

Interviews, project documents, and parent responses provided information for an interim evaluation of the Primary Itinerant Teacher Service, a pilot project designed to improve educational opportunities of children in the South-West Priority Country Area. In 1978, 3 itinerant teams of 2 teachers each contacted 238 students in 164 families and…

Describing the Union 58 Experimental Schools Program (ESP) in northern, rural New Hampshire, this curriculum guide presents the concept of "proximity congruency" as a means for developing elementary level (grades four through six) student sensory awareness of the environment in outdoor and/or environmental education procedures. Proximity…

The report was produced by UNESCO in partnership with CARE International in Cambodia for the "Highland Children's Education Project" (HCEP) to show how bilingual primary education has been implemented among the Tampuen and Kreung ethnic minority groups in six remote villages in the northeastern province of Ratanakiri, Cambodia. Central…