This report presents a summary and evaluation of the 8-day "Springboards to Learning" Institute, designed for involvement of both educator and community participants in a mutual effort to increase familiarity with and achieve competencies in the effective implementation of career education within the local schools and community. (Over…

In order to help local schools cope with the problems of migrant children, the Colorado State Department of Education conceived the idea of a mobile unit which would make periodic visits to schools serving migrant children. Originally the service provided by the units placed heavy emphasis on the diagnostic function. Accordingly, the units were…

This volume describes and evaluates 21 selected New York City Board of Education Umbrella Programs for the 1974-1975 school year. The programs include: (1) the parent resource center, (2) the teacher self-help program, (3) the East Harlem pre-kindergarten center, (4) the Brooklyn College volunteer tutoring program, (5) the parent education for…

This program is stated to have been designed as a new state-administered categorical aid program, with the purpose of making available additional state educational resources to students who have or are likely to have low levels of achievement, especially in relation to social and economic factors. Chapters include an introduction which describes…

This booklet contains a collection of practical resources and activity suggestions for family day care mothers. Materials were gathered in 1973 as part of a 2-year project to train family day care mothers. (A summary report of the project is also provided.) Materials related to the various aspects of providing a safe, healthy, educational…

This report contains a description and evaluation of a program for prekindergarten children who are identified as needing compensatory or corrective treatment. The program, in operation for nearly 8 years, can accommodate 60 children. Description of the instructional program was obtained through participant observation, photography, and audio tape…

The project was designed to familiarize students, teachers, administrators, parents, board members, and others with the concept of career awareness through personal involvement. Emphasis was placed on the various aspects of assessment, planning, implementation, and continuation of the Awareness Program within the existing curriculum in each school…

The document is the final report of a State-funded elementary career education project conducted by Tigard School District (Oregon) whose purpose was to develop career awareness and positive work attitudes. The project planning, development, and implementation were the responsibility of a team of selected staff members, who developed materials and…

The Street Academies discussed in this evaluation report are considered to represent outstanding attempts to develop positive culturally different instructional models, rather than the compensatory deficit disadvantaged models that are utilized by regular school programs. Seven chapters discuss the background of the Academies, purposes and…

A new technique described as computer augmented lectures (CAL) is being used at the University of Texas at Austin. It involves the integration of on-line, interactive, time sharing computer terminals and theater size video projectors for large screen display. This paper covers the basic concept, pedagogical techniques, experiments conducted,…

Program statistics, coordination with other federal programs, community and parent involvement, and descriptive evaluations of corrective reading, corrective math, the Broyhill Home for Children, staff development, and parent involvement are provided in this evaluation of North Carolina's Haywood County Schools. A section on the effects of Title I…

This report describes a community-based program of continuing education and support for family day care providers in Nassau County, New York. Chapters are: (1) Overview and Summary of the Pilot Program, (2) Situation Giving Rise to the Pilot Program, (3) Planning the Pilot Program, (4) Preparation for Implementation (including recruitment,…

Although the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I allocation which Wisconsin districts were authorized to receive in Fiscal Year 1975 only represented 48% of the maximum allocation, it was 28% greater than the allocation authorized in the previous fiscal year. Most school districts received allocations under 50,000 dollars. Over one-half of…

The document offers recommendations for a planned approach to the development and appraisal of a career-oriented marketing cluster program. The suggested appraisal instrument may be used for self-evaluation or group evaluation. Information on career education in Oregon, the career cluster concept, and the model marketing program concept precedes…

Science education can be enhanced by facilitating student interactive access to scientific data bases. The main objective of the Science and Technology Information Transfer for Education (STITE) project was to study man-machine mechanisms for improving the transfer of science information from its present repositories into science learning systems,…