Highlights are presented of programs designed to aid students underprepared for college level work at the ten institutions chosen as Associates for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) National Project II: Alternatives to the Revolving Door. The selected programs include: those at Bronx Community College, the Educational…

This is a comprehensive report of the effects of local school programs, K-12, developed with funds from ESEA Title I, the State Educationally Disadvantaged Youth (EDY) Act, and the Early Childhood Education (ECE) reform effort during 1974-75. The program description defines outputs, both in terms of institutional changes and in terms of student…

This program was designed to provide higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students of intellectual promise whose high school scholastic averages, aptitude test scores and personal finances preclude admission under regular procedures to baccalaureate programs of the City University of New York. The goal of the program was to have…

Considers the educational music broadcasts of the British Broadcasting System and asks three questions: (1) what new ideas for the teaching of music were disseminated; (2) were the programs successful in teaching traditional music skills; and (3) what was the critical reaction from music teachers and educators. (MJP)

A project was developed in southern Tel-Aviv to intellectually foster gifted/socially disadvantaged adolescents. The program's components include mastery of mathematics and English, development of excellence in selected areas, peer group support, and critical thinking development. The paper describes problems encountered by the project and program…

Stakeholder surveys conducted as part of the development of an accountability and assessment system for five charter schools in Miami-Dade County and Broward County, Florida, revealed high positive response regarding high expectations, school climate, basic skills instruction, and monitoring student progress. The lowest overall rating revealed…

The State of Washington received a Chapter 2 award of $8,224,052.00 for the school year 1986-87, a decrease of 3.3 percent from 1985-86. Planned expenditures and student services for basic skills programs declined over the past four years, but the amount of expenditures for special projects rose for the fifth consecutive year. These special…

Descriptive and evaluative information is provided on the approach used by Mitchell College, a small, private, liberal arts junior college, to meet the needs of learning disabled (LD) students. Introductory material cites the growing number of LD adults pursuing postsecondary educational options and describes the development of a learning resource…

The General Accounting Office's recommendations to the Congress and the Office of Indian Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is derived from a review of 16 projects funded under Title IV of the Indian Education Act of 1972 and designed to meet the special needs of American Indian children (operative during 1974-75 in Arizona,…

Project Success, a program of modified interdisciplinary instruction coordinated with special services, is considered to be consistent with the theory of individual differences and individualized instruction which is inherent in the philosophy of Bloomington Public School's educational goals and objectives. The project, which began as an…

This annotated bibliography is the ninth in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on special programs and their effects on minority children and youth reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: early childhood (Head…

The report of the Title VI Program in Oregon presents an overview of the summer 1969 activities which consisted of 24 projects designed for the areas of trainable and educable mentally handicapped, speech handicapped, deaf, visually handicapped, deaf-blind, and emotionally disturbed. The bulk of the text presents summary abstracts of each project…

Reporting on a college program whose goal is to help individuals with psychological handicaps, the criteria for program evaluation were that, by the end of the term, at least 66 percent of the students: (a) will have determined the validity of their attending college as a means of pursuing a realistic career goal; (b) will have determined a…

Presented is an evaluation of a program in seven schools in New York City which provided 19 special classes for 174 doubly handicapped students--mentally retarded and severely physically handicapped--ranging in age from 5 to 21 years old. Among findings listed are that the 30 higher functioning Ss who were given the Wide Range Achievement Test did…

This article describes a successful school-based program for students with emotional disturbances served in a special education setting. Program features include a professional training program, development and implementation of a strengths-based plan in which students and families are included as partners, and a method for evaluating the…