This practicum report describes a year-long effort to reorganize a large urban junior high school according to the "house plan" concept, in which the school is organized administratively and geographically by grade level, rather than by academic department. The reorganization plan involved five major changes, including relocation of departments…

Projects being carried out by the private sector involving the use of solar energy for heating and cooling buildings are profiled in this report. A substantial portion of the data were collected from a broad cross-section of the building community. Data collection efforts also involved the canvassing of the nearly 200 trade and professional…

The study proposed to answer, for Egypt as an example of contemporary developing nations, the major question of "how to facilitate a rational, diversified, and effective multi-source cultural borrowing by a developing country." Planned cultural borrowing was defended on the basis of four factors: the reduction of probability of initial…

STITE (Scientific and Technical Information Transfer for Education) is a proposed system for the transfer of information from the many computerized information banks to the field of science education. A description of STITE with its auxiliary systems first outlines the goals and objectives of the research. Next, selected science and technology…

Florida International University (FIU), The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Eagle University (Kentucky) have designed programs to meet the needs of nontraditional students. Eagle University, composed of nine universities from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Florida, extends educational opportunities to servicemen and community members of Fort…

This report reviews programs of individualized instruction in the basic skills of mathematics, language arts, science, and social education as well as in new curriculums which foster the skills needed for social education as well and emotional growth. The development and operation of an experience-based model for career education is described, and…

Recognizing the need to reinforce methods courses with realistic perceptions of the secondary classroom, the Business Education Department at Shippensburg State College implemented, in September 1972, an integrated methods block including field experiences. The program has three primary objectives. The first objective is to provide business…

The primary purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of combining existing resources of the community and the community college system in an educational program that can provide maximum latitude for individual abilities and interests of students involved in the Chicano Studies area. Current literature on innovative programs in higher…

This manual reviews thirty projects selected by the Oregon Educational Coordinating Council (ECC) as exemplary in method, operation, and development. The projects are organized into 9 broad classifications: large group-small group alternatives, autotutorial programmed instruction, process centered, computer and simulation, on-site/field study,…

An evaluation design created to provide information for a multiple-project program of educational experimentation is presented. Project SEED (State Experimentation in Educational Development) became an official education effort in North Carolina on July 1, 1971. Model for the program was that of the State's ESEA Title III program with certain…

This report presents a detailed analysis of various aspects of the first year of operation of the new School of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Illinois. This new program in medical education is designed to increase the rate of production of new doctors, to alleviate some of the problems in health care delivery by shortening the amount…

Ten regional workshops were held for local educational personnel in late 1972 and early 1973. Teams of educators were selected from innovative school districts and oriented to the use of alcohol and traffic safety curriculum materials centered on student concerns. Five hundred eighty-seven participants attended from 49 states and Puerto Rico. The…

This paper describes the philosophy and operation of John Wood Community College (JWCC), located in Illinois, which uses neighboring private and proprietary colleges in Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa to provide instructional and support services for its students. Currently, six schools have contractual relationships with JWCC, with the result that…

Describes and evaluates an environmental studies student teacher program, Project LEAP, (Learning Environment, Achievement, and Performance), which is designed to emphasize action learning through selected field experiences of an interdisciplinary nature. (Author/DB)

Problem children were to be assigned to a resource room--a non-graded, more intimate learning environment. The paper reports the difficulties encountered in asking parents to allow their children to be in the resource room. Parents had both social and personal reasons for their reluctance. (NG)