Summarized are major findings of a 2-year Title III project serving educable mentally retarded (EMR) students in approximately 100 special education classes in eight regions of Ohio. The program is said to have been designed to meet the following goals: to create behavioral objectives for the EMR curriculum, to train teachers of EMR students to…

The aim of the Texas Child Migrant Program is for each school district to develop a migrant program designed to meet the particular educational needs of the children of that school system. Each district is encouraged to implement new ideas, activities, and strategies which show promise of improving the migrant child's education. The program's…

For the 1973-74 school year the California Career Education Task Force decided that expanded activities would be most productively developed at six previously funded sites plus two additional sites. Since the eight project sites differed in geographic location, socioeconomic level, size, ethnic composition, and school organizational pattern, a…

This report describes the personnel development requirements of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), Delaware's Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD), and Delaware's proposed action plan. The scope of the CSPD system is covered, including descriptions of inservice and preservice training for general…

A statewide staff mentoring program was developed in Illinois as an option for providing a personalized, intensive approach to training early intervention personnel on a large scale. Evaluation results for the initial period of developing the process and for the first eight trainer-trainee dyads suggest this approach is individualized,…

A 2-year project provided inservice training to school personnel involved in vocational education and placement of trainable mentally retarded students in Pennsylvania. Project activities included a review of the literature, the development of task analysis training techniques, the compilation of a procedural manual and a job placement guidebook,…

This evaluation of Project Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged (SEED) sought to assess the impact of SEED instruction upon students enrolled in disadvantaged schools (grades three to six) in four major study areas: mathematics achievement, interest in math and other school subjects, motivation, and self concept. In addition, the…

This report provides an overview of projects funded under Section 353 of the Adult Education Act (1991) that support Ohio's efforts to develop individual growth and leadership in the field of adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) and program improvement. The programs profiled are grouped in the following categories: resource centers; ABLE…

This report explores current thinking in professional development as it relates to strategies for reform. It begins with a discussion of the relationship between professional development and school reform and a description of recent efforts by the National Governors' Association to stimulate dialogue on the issue. The report then discusses the…

The document is the fourth of a subset of six instructional packages focusing on teacher orientation to career education. The module presents four national career education modules of Federal and State career education projects: (1) the school-based model, (2) the experience-based model, (3) the home/community-based model, and (4) the…

South Carolina's migrant programs offered educational opportunities for migratory children during the regular school year and the summer months. The intrastate programs primarily served migratory children whose home-base was South Carolina during the regular school year. During the summer, the interstate programs served children primarily from…

Described in the document are the procedures of a 3-year project to develop and validate a service delivery system for the early identification of and intervention with exceptional students in two Florida counties. Sections cover the following topics: identification and intervention procedures, roles of personnel, summaries of eight teacher…

Louisiana's state education agency (SEA) was mandated to provide appropriate services for children with attention deficit disorders, by developing statewide training for representatives from public school districts and by selecting and implementing four pilot programs. The SEA implemented the pilot programs, provided an informational training…

The Illinois Network of Exemplary Occupational Education Programs for Handicapped and Disadvantaged Students developed demonstration programs for the handicapped at six high schools, two vocational centers, and one community college. The Network was designed to demonstrate those practices which resulted in the provision of effective services to…

Based on data derived from Title I grant applications, end-of-project evaluation reports, as well as information from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, this report is an evaluation of Wisconsin's migrant education programs (18 school year and 18 summer projects) which served 2,641 students in fiscal year 1979 with an allocation of…