This report represents the first year record of the Manpower Leadership Education Project. This inaugural effort toward cooperative manpower leadership training between a labor department base and university occupational education base was made possible by a contract between the Michigan Department of Labor, Bureau of Manpower, and the University…

The Elementary and Secondary (ESEA) Title I project components for Hawaii's Maui District are evaluated in this document. The first section reviews the following: the reading resource rooms, the preschools, and the measurement of academic gain as shown by the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. The second section presents a school-by-school…

A description and evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded project in Guam; "Facilitating Language Arts Through School and Home (FLASH V)," is reported in this document. The project consisted of three overlapping activities: the Cultural Language Arts Programs, home intervention, and school intervention.…

There were four relevant objectives of this study: (1) describe the extent and nature of school case-oriented and program consultation as currently practiced, and to evaluate its impact; (2) evaluate the congruence of the local consultee's and consultant's expectations of consultation and the degree to which their expectations are attained; (3)…

There were four relevant objectives of this study: (1) describe the extent and nature of school case-oriented and program consultation as currently practiced, and to evaluate its impact; (2) evaluate the congruence of the local consultee's and consultant's expectations of consultation and the degree to which their expectations are attained; (3)…

The author describes a counselor education program based on the premise that self-understanding and self-awareness are as important as acquisition of skills, techniques, and knowledge for persons planning to enter the helping professions. In attempting to create a climate of high trust in which self exploration can occur, the faculty has…

Provided is an evaluation of the Special Education Instructional Materials Center (SEIMC), a New York City school district educational project providing direct service to parents, professionals, paraprofessionals, and teachers in training who are concerned with the education of handicapped children in the public and nonpublic schools. Among…

Provided is an evaluation report of a special education program in New York City designed to improve the reading and arithmetic skills of brain-injured children in mainstream classes (grades 1 through 8). An assessment of the extent to which participants improved in reading and mathematics and a study of the extent to which the actual program…

Presented is an evaluation of a program designed to provide intensive reading instruction to individual hospitalized, handicapped children in New York City. The project is noted to have served 375 children in 22 hospital settings and involved 32 teachers. Reported are findings indicating that approximately 92% of the pupils mastered at least one…

The goal of this study was to develop a means for better assessing the potential success of a regional interlibrary loan program. Descriptive information and qualitative data on funding, policies, and procedures were gathered for five regional interlibrary loan programs in New York State from three sources-- questionnaires sent to each member…

This booklet details the findings of a survey, conducted by the Committee on Learning Skills Centers of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, concerning the utilization of learning skills centers to teach composition in institutions of higher learning. Responses from 38 public two-year colleges, 2 private two-year colleges, 18…

This paper describes a project undertaken to legitimize the role of affective education in the development of the "whole" child. The two major objectives of Project Self are: (1) to gain acceptance of the study of one's self as a legitimate subject matter for students and teachers so that self-study curriculum and techniques will be accepted as…

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)

Offers a description and evaluation of the Comprehensive Emergency Services System (Nashville, Tenn.) for children in crises, designed to coordinate public and private agency services provided to neglected, abused and dependent children, to develop new service options, and expand existing program components within the Department of Public Welfare.…

The PTTC (Peking Teachers' Training College) was set up in 1954 to train secondary school teachers. The authors investigate the recruiting and training of future teachers both before and after the GPCR (Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) to determine whether the GPCR brought about any significant change in Chinese education. (KC)