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Download full textAu, Kathryn H. – 1974
This Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) report describes the development of a systematic program for teaching academic readiness skills to kindergarten children who require special help to develop attentional behaviors. The progress of eight kindergarten children (five boys and three girls) is described to illustrate the merit of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attention Control, Behavior Development, Demonstration Programs
POLLACK, CECELIA; SHER, NORMAN – 1966
TO PREVENT OR AMELIORATE LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN, A PILOT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WAS IMPLEMENTED IN A LOWER MIDDLE CLASS, MULTI-ETHNIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK BY THE MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER. PRACTICABILITY OF PROGRAM REPLICATION WAS AN IMPORTANT CRITERION. AN INSERVICE MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM WAS…
Descriptors: Consultants, Demonstration Programs, Elementary School Students, Inservice Teacher Education
Penning, Nick; Hunter, Bruce, Ed. – School Administrator, 1987
Features 2 of 12 exemplary math and science programs identified by educational groups. Washington School District, Phoenix, Arizona, improved student achievement in science by hands-on laboratory experience and creative staff use. Manchester, Connecticut, elementary students raised mathematics scores thorough an activities-based curriculum with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Demonstration Programs, Discovery Learning
Smolkovich, Greg; And Others – 1991
A Chapter 1 pre-kindergarten intervention summer school program of the Mesa Unified School District in Arizona was selected by the United States Department of Education as being unusually successful in meeting the special educational needs of disadvantaged children. Students determined to be at-risk are enrolled in the program, which takes place…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy
Van De Riet, Vernon; Resnick, Michael B. – 1972
The effects of two or three years of a sequential educational intervention program on culturally deprived children were studied with two groups of four-year-olds and two groups of five-year-olds. They were matched on several developmental variables, with one group at each age level entering the experimental Learning to Learn Program. The other…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes an external evaluation study of the Responsive Environment Early Education Program (formerly known as the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children), an educational intervention program for "high risk" (low birth weight) 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children in Clovis, New Mexico. Major goals of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Bilingual Education, Body Weight
King, Paul E. – 1966
The dual objective of this demonstration project was to show "how the reality of two or more language and ethnic groups present within one integrated classroom could be utilized to develop (1) bilingual readiness in both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking children, and (2) positive attitudes toward and respect for one's own native language and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers
Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1976
Formerly the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children, REEEP is an educational intervention program for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old "high risk" (of low birth weight and with various handicaps) Spanish American children. Goals of REEEP, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III program, are to: prevent school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs
Goolsby, Thomas M., Jr.; Frary, Robert B. – 1969
Two hundred first grade children participated in an experimental program involving innovative curricula and instructional techniques. A pretest-posttest method of instruction, employing sequenced and structured learning activities, enabled each child to progress at an individual rate and was supplemented by a readiness program. Evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Demonstration Programs, Desegregation Effects
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Federal Programs. – 1988
This report presents a summary of the State of South Carolina's utilization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I and Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 funds as a resource for educationally disadvantaged students during the past 5 years, and identifies those projects exhibiting the greatest gains in terms of student…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
