This paper presents a rationale for family involvement in the drug rehabilitation effort. This is based on the significant role the family plays during the process of overcoming the impact of disability. The perspective of this paper is a result of the author's experience over a three-year period with families of drug abusers and their attempts to…

The Mathematics Inquiry in the Conrad Area (MICA) Project had as its general focus the installation of a variety of teaching approaches, with emphases on open-ended units. The purpose was to give teachers exposure to the diversity of possible approaches, to use and test the effectiveness of the methods, and to familiarize other teachers with the…

The objective of the three-year project was to synthesize career education concepts from the literature and from practice into a continuous occupational information program for grades one through twelve. A variety of methods was used to implement the program: teacher-made lesson plans, "hands on" activities, and in-service workshops…

The 3-year Title III elementary school project provided an individualized program for the 310 attending students to assess effectiveness of educating the 15% of the mildly handicapped mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, and learning disabled students in a common school setting. Two trainer consultants, five teachers, 15 interns in training…

A description of the Oregon Total Information System (OTIS) project is presented. The purpose of the three year project was to improve education and its administration by implementing and demonstrating a total information system which could provide data processing services to school districts of varying sizes over a large geographic region. The…

The purpose of the 1971 Higher Education Act (HEA) Institute for Training in Librarianship and Drug Education was to train teams of librarians and media specialists from academic and school libraries to develop comprehensive drug education packages made up of both commercially available materials and locally produced learning aids designed to meet…

This report of PROBE (Planning Resource Opportunities for Better Education) summarizes and evaluates activities from the time the project began its operation in March, 1967, through May 1968. Major objectives are: 1) to involve teachers in the enrichment of their curriculum programs; 2) to bring together the faculties in colleges and school…

Conclusions reached after three years of performance contracting experience and materials with which to judge the validity of the conclusions are presented in this overview of performance contracting. The conclusions are: (1) commercial firms are no better at teaching children than are public schools; (2) commercial firms expend as much or more…

Investigated was use of an instructional simulation model with elementary classroom teachers to identify learning disabled children, to utilize effectively ancillary personnel, and to initiate remediation programs in the classrooms. Teachers participating in the model were said to view children on videotape in many school settings, review academic…

The Oklahoma exemplary program located at Tulsa was designed to provide occupational orientation and vocational training for disadvantaged and previously unserved students from Grade 5 through 12 in a comprehensive urban school system. To evaluate the program, data were collected about the: (1) contest or goals and objectives of the program in…

The Sullivan Reading Program is designed to teach reading, with the focus on basic skills, to children beginning in kindergarten and continuing through grade 3. It is also used in remedial reading instruction for children and adults of all ages. The two basic series of materials are the Programmed Reading series and the Sullivan Reading Program,…

This report analyzes the five year history of the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP). The authors have written from a variety of perspectives explaining how and why certain objectives were realized and others were not. Because their perspectives are different, the authors do not always agree in their interpretations. In the first two…

During the 1970-71 school year the Pontiac School District operated a vocational career development program to increase the occupational knowledge and self-concept of students. Evaluation of that first year pertained to context, input, process, and product. A description of the program, its results, and research procedures is included. Three major…

The discrepancies between the comprehensive design for Follow Through evaluation and the program management's needs of the seven models in Philadelphia are discussed. The national evaluation has focused on pupil performance and achievement data. The local evaluation, conducted since 1968, has focused on: (1) the assessment of the correspondence…

This 1-day colloquium, attended by 23 participants representing societies, government agencies, colleges and universities, and other training programs, was conducted for the purpose of reporting on and discussing the curriculums developed at the University of Cincinnati for training nuclear medical technologists. Pilot programs at both the…