The paper describes the School-Home-Community Program for 12 3-7-year-old hearing impaired children in Miller County and Little River County, Arkansas. Program objectives are noted to include involvement of community agencies and groups in initiating a model program for children with hard-of-hearing handicaps and participation of parents in the…

Presents criteria used to identify the nation's best evaluated exemplary career education activities and provides a list of the seven programs reviewed by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel and judged to be exemplary. (MF)

Representing the first nationwide assessment of coeducational correctional institutions, a study was conducted to determine the current state-of-knowledge about corrections, drawing on reviews of the literature, a telephone survey of co-correctional institutions, in-depth site-visits, and iinterviews with practitioners. The data was discussed and…

Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are the focus of this inventory of ESEA Title III projects for the State of Delaware, fiscal year 1974. Sixteen operating projects are described in Part I…

Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this document about Missouri ESEA Title III exemplary programs. Nineteen projects completing the third year of operation, thirteen…

The purpose of this guidebook is to give recognition to some of California's effective schools and, more importantly, to encourage interschool visiting. Emphasizing that organization leads to productivity, specific suggestions as to how to use the book and how to plan school visits are provided. Listed alphabetically and by county, section I…

Based on the premise that thousands of disabled do not participate in vocational education mainly because of nonacceptance into programs due to a lack of readiness, a study was conducted focusing on three severely disabled groups: (1) those accepted by the Department of Rehabilitation for programs, (2) those not accepted but given "pre-vocational"…

Summarized in this report are the efforts, accomplishments, and recommendations of personnel involved in a pilot program designed to teach educable mentally retarded (EMR) students key punch operation. Participating in the study initially were 18 high school students from Platt and Maloney High Schools. Instruction was given to each group by a…

Presented is an independent evaluation of a Title I cooperative effort to create a "model school" in the Bedford Stuyvesant area of New York City. Project Beacon of Yeshiva University, the local school board, and P.S. 129 sought to develop innovative approaches, improve student achievement and instruction, and rehabilitate dropouts. The…

Intended to stimulate communication among the federal, state, intermediate, local, and postsecondary agencies that share responsibility for the improvement of education, this Department of Education catalog of exemplary educational programs describes all the projects dealt with in previous editions as well as providing information on more than 30…

This evaluation report identifies recent trends of Title I and examines their cost. The question said to be addressed is whether Title I financed activities in Georgia have any positive effect on the learning outcomes of participating children. Chapters deal with basic statistics for FY 74, pupil participation, expenditures, impact on achievement,…

This annual evaluation report on educational programs administered by the Office of Education for fiscal year 1973 updates and extends last year's report and incorporates the results of the studies completed as of June 30, 1973 as well as new information derived from program operations, data collections and monitoring activities. Included in each…

Sixty-three projects, forty-five of which were approved and funded during fiscal year 1974 by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of education innovations, are highlighted in this document about Wisconsin ESEA Title III exemplary ESEA programs. New…

The orientation of this report is that of identifying educational projects which can be considered clearly exemplary. The largest section consists of a 22-step procedure for validating the effectiveness of educational projects using existing evaluation data. It is not intended as a guide for conducting evaluations but rather for interpreting data…