Follow Through is an early childhood program (kindergarten through third grade) established in 1967. The intent of the program is to sustain and expand on the gains made by children in Head Start or similar preschool programs. It is an educational program with a strong emphasis on community and parental involvement, as well as comprehensive…

The Living Stage Improvisational Theatre Demonstration Project (Washington, D.C.) conducts weekly workshops to enhance the creative expression and self esteem of orthopedically handicapped children, aged 4 to 8 years. The Living Stage program is designed to demonstrate that methods of improvisational theatre can have a positive impact on parental…

A project to provide dissemination workshops and consultation services to secondary school social studies teachers in eight Western states is described. The outreach program, which extended over a 10-month period, aided 192 participants in acquiring skills and resources needed to plan a social studies curriculum and in identifying teacher…

Designed to inform and guide the work of the Professional Support Committee at Reading Area Community College (RACC) in Pennsylvania as it attempts to refine current instructional support procedures and create new growth initiatives, this evaluative report focuses on the activities and accomplishments of RACC during the third year of its…

Administrators at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, have discovered that an open campus helps the student assume more responsibility for his actions, develop the capacity for making wise decisions about time use, and promote his own educational development. (Author/DN)

Summarizes teaching assistant training programs conducted in 50 graduate schools. Indicates that mose institutions see the teaching assistant as a means of providing undergraduate instruction and of providing financial support for graduate students, not as a means of training future college teachers. (CC)

The Haaren High School Professional Services Center (PSC) in New York City was designed as a necessary support system for the reorganization of a large high school into a mini-school structure designed to increase the personal quality of school for each student without a change in the existing building or staff. PSC was designed to enable teachers…

Reported are results of the second year of a demonstration and training project to develop and test a model for training counselors to promote the vocational development of secondary level special education students. An overview of the project covers the need for the project, features of the new model, program objectives (including the design of…

Presented is the program performance report of a project to train paraprofessionals in working with preschool handicapped children in Alaska. Accomplishments and attainments as well as slippages are reviewed for each of the program's three objectives: development of competency based training materials for paraprofessionals, training of…

A product of the Kansas Planning and Community Development (CD) Division within the Kansas Department of Economic Division, the Kansas CD Assistance Pilot Project was created to meet the more technical needs of small and principally rural communities (up to 20,000 in population). Funded from July 1, 1974 through October 31, 1975, the Project…

The success analysis approach consists of individual and group exercises through which participants, in sharing meaning-centered experiences, identify their strengths and needs and clarify values operative in both past and expected successes. This approach constitutes a rational and practical perspective whereby students, teachers, staff, and…

This publication presents the program objectives and research design for an experimental program intended to plan, implement, and evaluate an educational voucher system in the New Hampshire communities of Allenstown, Candia, Deerfield, Hollis, and Hooksett. Separate sections of the report discuss various aspects of the voucher program, including…

This publication is the final summary report for an experimental program intended to plan, implement, and evaluate an educational voucher system in the New Hampshire communities of Allenstown, Candia, Deerfield, Hollis, Hooksett, and Salem. Separate sections of the report discuss the purpose of the voucher program, the background of the program,…

This publication is the final interim report for an experimental program intended to plan, implement, and evaluate an educational voucher system in the New Hampshire communities of Allenstown, Candia, Deerfield, Hollis, Hooksett, and Salem. This particular report covers the period from July 1, 1975 to May 31, 1976. The first section of the…

Described is the Preschool for Gifted-Handicapped in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a 3-year demonstration program for children (3 to 6 years old) who exhibit unusual gifts or talents in spite of physical, mental, emotional, or experiential handicaps. Sections cover four goals of the program: assessment, curriculum, community and parent involvement,…