This report describes the National Diffusion/Adoption Network, who is involved with it (developer/demonstrators, state facilitators, state education agencies, the U.S. Office of Education, and local school districts), and what happened during the first year of its operaton. (DS)

An important indicator of the success of a funding agency is the achievement and impact of the projects it supports. This paper, one of three related documents, examines the effectiveness of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, a fund to improve educational opportunities. A telephone survey was conducted in 1979 of all of the…

This manual, one of four related documents, is an overview of a program in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District (Pennsylvania) to remove sex bias from the curriculum, from extracurricular activities, from guidance materials and practices, and from personnel practices. The first part of the manual describes the model in terms of its rationale,…

The purpose of this report is to review the actions of the United States Office of Education (OE) in the administration and operation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the 1978 Education Amendments. The report describes the changes Congress mandated OE to implement and examines OE's response to these specific…

Presented is a study and assessment of the United States Department of Energy State Energy Conservation Program (SECP). The goal of the SECP is to reduce energy consumption in each state by 5% by 1980. However, it is unlikely that this goal will be attained or that the savings reported for 1978 are a valid measure of the program's impact on energy…

This paper reviews the findings of TEMPO's 1967 and subsequent evaluation studies and offers some conclusions and recommendations aimed at strengthening Title I compensatory education programs. An overview of Title I and a description of the TEMPO study and its methodology are provided. It is stated that, with the measurement methods used, no…

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE NATIONAL TEACHING CORPS TRAINING PROGRAM IN ARKANSAS, WHICH CONSISTS OF 24 INTERNS AND 9 MASTER TEACHERS, SEVERAL ECONOMISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIOLOGISTS, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SPECIALISTS, COUNSELING SPECIALISTS, AND AN AUDIOVISUAL EXPERT. FOR 10 WEEKS THE GROUP HELD A SEMINAR ON THE EDUCATION OF THE DISADVANTAGED,…

This report focuses on the results of approximately twenty central studies of compensatory education completed before 1977 and presents the major results of those studies as they relate to important policy questions for Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The results are presented first as they relate to the major tasks of Title…

This publication is a summary of the energy education programs that existed upon the creation of the Department of Energy. It serves to review the history of federal energy education efforts and as a starting place for the comprehensive mission of this new department. This publication is limited in focus to educational institutions, but it deals…

The major goal of the 3 1/2 year Federal project was to assist each State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to develop preliminary State-tailored, home-school-community models/guides for developing and implementing improved and extended career guidance, counseling, and placement programs in local school districts. A national training…

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency whose principal function is to encourage the understanding and use of the humanities to national concerns. It serves its various constituencies by supporting the work of individual humanists and of nonprofit institutions and organizations engaged in projects involving the…

This booklet contains an evaluation of the Urban Environmental Education Project instituted in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Data were obtained from interviews and questionnaires given to project staff, teachers, and students. Seven objectives were evaluated to rate the program: (1) assisting teachers in developing programs and…

The document contains 10 appendixes to the evaluation of 32 projects in the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP). Included are samples of six project-based measurement instruments (including a parent survey form and a student followup assessment), an instruction package for psychologists to use in determining handicapping…

The purpose of this consulting center in Delaware is to encourage intercultural education and school integration by aiding educational and community leaders to design appropriate administrative and teaching strategies. Services of this center at the University of Delaware are supported by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IV and are available to…