The 1982-83 school year was the second year of the New York City (New York) Public Schools Promotional Gates Program. Under this program students in grades four and seven who failed to attain their promotional criteria (in both reading and mathematics) were retained for a year of intensive remedial instruction. This report is the result of a…

Product of a 5-year study designed to improve programming for emotionally handicapped students in the Indiana Public Schools, the document consists of four major components. Section I, "Operationalizing the Definition," focuses on eligibility for services, psychoeducational evaluation procedures and interpretation, documentation of…

This resource manual is designed to assist both the beginning cooperative office education (COE) teacher-coordinator in developing a new COE program and the experienced teacher-coordinator in reviewing and upgrading established programs. It can also be used as a resource for administrators. Unit I defines goals, determines the need for a COE…

Designed to help teachers, especially Title I teachers, improve reading programs, this handbook presents guidelines for (1) enhancing the diagnostic-prescriptive reading system approach to teaching and learning, (2) promoting the continuity of learning from level to level, (3) broadening the range of skills taught, and (4) developing interest in…

This module on legal compliance is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings gain skills in (1) implementing Federal and state legislative administrative procedures and requirements, and (2) influencing the development or improvement of such procedures and requirements. The module is one of a series of…

In this history and analysis of Federal educational projects in the Anacostia area of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1977 the origins and development of the Anacostia Community School Project (1967-72) and its successor, the Response to Educational Needs Project (1972-77) are described. The requirements of implementation studies are…

A comprehensive assessment of the career education programs offered in the school districts in Michigan was conducted, based on the assumption that the lack of systematically organized needs data for appropriate decisionmaking groups may be an obstruction to the statewide implementation of career education. A questionnaire instrument was…

A model of an "ideal" high school career education program with a system for assessing a high school's progress toward the ideal are presented in this document. An introduction describes briefly the source of the model, a project to demonstrate the most effective methods and techniques of career education at the secondary level in four…

Intended primarily for directors and coordinators of cooperative education at New York two-year colleges, this guide presents a systematic approach to development of cooperative education and provides means for review and improvement. Part 1 offers results of a statewide survey of two-year colleges in New York regarding work experience options and…

This handbook is designed to assist employment and training agency staff in developing, adopting, and implementing an effective intake program for employment and training programs. An introductory section explains the purposes of the handbook and presents an overview of the intake process. In the next section, the action planning guidelines are…

This report makes recommendations to enhance the delivery of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to small-city youth. It draws on the data base created by National League of Cities Youth Employment activities which provided a profile of the small city in CETA youth program operations, identified kinds of problems that affect…

Seven Wisconsin school districts formed a consortium to improve district level implementation of career education, K-12. Each district developed assessment and/or evaluation instruments to meet their specific needs, and circulated these instruments among all seven districts for review and feedback. After revision and field testing, these…

Seven Wisconsin school districts formed a consortium to improve district level implementation of career education, K-12. Each district developed assessment and/or evaluation instruments to meet their specific needs, and circulated these instruments among all seven districts for review and feedback. After revision and field testing, these…

Seventeen articles used to convey the South Carolina advisory council's 1977-78 evaluation of vocational and technical education in South Carolina are presented. Articles included are "The Girl Stared"; "A Solution to Discipline--Education's Number One Problem"; "A Vocational Education Success Story"; "TEC…

Focusing primarily on the initiation phase of program development, this document is one of two handbooks developed by a California consortium of vocational educators to provide guidelines for developing and evaluating occupational programs. (The accompanying handbook, CE 017 927, focuses on program modification and termination.) A flow chart…