New York University's Leadership Program in the Care of Infants and Toddlers, an interdisciplinary training model, is described in this final report covering the program's three-year grant period from the National Institute of Mental Health. Focusing primarily on training individuals for leadership positions in the area of infant and toddler care,…

An overview is presented of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's (UNL) Dean's Mainstreaming Project. The three-year project at UNL's Teachers College adopted an approach that integrates instruction and practicum experiences with handicapped students into the existing teacher education program. The project's major goal is to ensure consolidation of…

This description of a free, two-day home appliance exposition organized by the county extension center of Johnson County, Kansas, outlines the basic structure of the exposition in a format that can serve as a guide for organizing similar expositions. Discussion of the exposition is divided into the following sections: rationale for an appliance…

The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate the procedure for setting up a school-community relations program. The first chapter describes the following recommended components of such a program: using a programmatic approach, using the five school-community relations processes, and designating the primary responsibilities for the…

A project funded through the Kansas State Department of Vocational Education in cooperation with Kansas State University intended to (1) validate and/or modify a set of standards for quality vocational education programs and (2) develop instrumentation and procedures for the evaluation of local programs based on the standards identified and…

This handbook provides suggestions about quality control procedures that will enable Teacher Corps project personnel to assess the effects and success of educational products, practices, and other outputs prior to dissemination. Two assessment processes are outlined. The first, review, is the collegial ongoing process for Teacher Corps project…

Pilot programs for comprehensive health screening have been implemented in Texas public schools since the 1977-78 school year. This was the first year state funds were appropriated for programs designed for the purpose of screening children for health problems. Students to be screened in the program were limited to kindergarten, grade six, and…

California's Pupil Proficiency Law requires each local school district to adopt standards of proficiency in the basic skills of reading comprehension, writing, and computation. Students are to be assessed in grades 4-11. Students not making sufficient progress towards meeting the district's standards are to be provided with remedial programs, and…

This monograph includes two reports describing the results of three years of field research on the implementation and impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Eastern Massachusetts. They represent a thorough and detailed study of the problems faced by prime sponsors in the initial years of CETA. The first report, CETA in…

The focus of a summative evaluation of the Promising Practices Diffusion Project was on soliciting descriptions and views of several different groups about project operation and merit and comparing the "ideal" model against what had taken place so far. Preliminary activities involved review of the project-developed Implementation Kit for…

Describes a five step mechanism for promoting change and illustrates it with a case study from the Telecommunication and Broadcasting Training Institute (TBTI) in Saudi Arabia. The steps outlined are: (1) organizational analysis; (2) determining receptivity to change; (3) implementation strategy; (4) implementing change and overcoming resistance;…

In the summer of 1986, the New Jersey Institute of Technology sponsored a program to provide disabled junior high school students with exposure to technical career options and the skills needed for success in technological fields. Characteristics of the program and the students are discussed. (Author/BJV)

This article advocates a systems approach to curriculum development. Steps in the system include the following: assess student needs, identify job specific applications, develop student objectives, develop criterion tests, prepare/select instructional materials, execute programs, and evaluate programs. (CT)

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) demands from the American public school system that all students, regardless of race or socioeconomic status, must be held to the same academic expectations, and that their academic progress must be measured using a newly refined concept of adequate yearly progress (AYP). Success in complying with the…

This booklet is one of five in the Peace Corps (PC) Programming and Training Guidelines collection that provides agency-wide programming and training guidance for PC staff and project partners. It offers PC staff and others a step-by-step approach for designing or revising a project, beginning with analyzing the situation in a country and ending…