The purpose of this manual is to provide a nontechnical description of the Fresno County system for program evaluation. Intended for the use of the school administrator, teacher, or researcher whose knowledge of electronic data processing is limited, this manual presents ways of using the system, the procedures required to support system…

A wide variety of selected innovative or nontraditional programs in accredited two- and four-year American colleges and universities is described, using information derived from an extensive study covering over 2200 accredited institutions. Although the intent is to aid career preparation, the scope is broader than the title suggests. Chapters…

The Grants, New Mexico, Bilingual/Bicultural Program reported in this document was designed to introduce into the first-grade curriculum the native language of the child. Ten general objectives of the program are listed, in which the overall objective is introducing or clarifying concepts in a child's Spanish or Indian dialect and then giving…

The 1969-70 Experienced Teacher Fellowship program (ExTFP) actively sought teams of two or three teachers from the inner city areas of the 25 largest cities in the United States. Twenty-four Fellows were selected to develop a model program designed to orient, upgrade and prepare a nucleus of urban teachers in evolving technologies for a…

Evergreen State College is an unprecedented flexible, sophisticated educational instrument designed to avoid depersonalization. Students are treated as responsible adults and are expected to work closely, as colleagues, with their teachers. Curriculum planning reflects the belief that graduates would change their career pattern and life styles at…

This book of readings provides the college level student with a variety of articles that reflect the diversified early childhood education programs, models, and strategies currently in use. The articles are intended to acquaint the student with a basic background of information that encompasses many of the major issues and concerns in early…

The cultural approach to the teaching of social studies program for the seventh grade level was developed by the teachers of Montgomery, Alabama under an ESEA Title III grant. Major objectives of the program are to stimulate students to develop an awareness of their place in history by studying the cultures preceding them, and to encourage…

The Thirteen College Curriculum Program is a cooperative venture involving predominantly Negro colleges and the Institution for Services to Education. The program is developing five new courses for the freshman year of college and two new courses for the sophomore year. The program consists of 100 students on each campus in the first-year program…

During its first year 1972-73, the project was concerned with total implementation of an innovative plan for scheduling high school classes--the Trimester/Modular Scheduling Plan and inservice education for teachers to help them update their teaching strategies and adapt them to the classtime allotments of the new scheduling plan. Four of the…

This report concerns one of the Florida Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III projects validated as innovative, cost-effective, and exportable during 1973. The project rationale is that, through training, K-3 teachers may become adept at individually diagnosing specific language arts behaviors for all children in their classrooms and…

This study focuses upon programs designed for full-time paraprofessional employees in human service agencies given time off with pay to attend school. The programs discussed are those whose curricula are designed to connect with and supplement the participants' work and which also grant degrees. Questionnaire returns from 162 such programs…

The Social Studies Field Agent Training Program was a two year experiment supported by the Office of Education and the Ford Foundation. The primary goal of the program was to test the feasibility of employing specially trained social studies teachers, who were referred to as social studies field agents, to increase the rate of the diffusion of…

The development of a pre-service training program over a three-year period for faculty at Burlington County College, New Jersey is discussed. Burlington County College, which began operation in the Fall of 1969, emphasizes various modes of instruction, with the long-range goal of facilitating individualized instruction. Summaries of six revisions…

Individually Guided Education (IGE) is an elementary school program that replaces the self-contained classroom with an instructional unit composed of a unit leader, three to five teachers, paraprofessionals and clerical aides, and 100 to 150 children. Its program includes innovations such as nongraded instruction, team teaching, continuous…

Teachers developing creative and imaginative methods of providing students with a foundation for economic education are invited to submit their examples to the Kazanjian Awards Program. The stated objective of economic instruction is to help students develop their ability to think rationally, objectively, and with a modest degree of sophistication…