Since 1978, Federal policy has sought to encourage the development of local comprehensive service programs for pregnant and parenting adolescents through demonstration grants, research, and dissemination of information about exemplary program models. The prevailing interventive model used is based on the development of local and comprehensive…

System Development Corporation conducted an extensive project of conceptualization and planning of models for compensatory educational intervention for older disadvantaged youth. This volume treats the two intervention strategies developed to provide the framework for comprehensive compensatory education projects at the secondary and postsecondary…

This guide contains materials which are designed to assist rural school systems in assessing educational needs, in systematically planning strategies to develop an organization for an instructional program, and in applying for Title III funds. Instructions for a survey and an inventory of needs, suggestions for the allocation of resources…

This guide contains materials which are designed to assist rural school systems in assessing educational needs, in systematically planning strategies to develop a reading program, and in applying for Title III funds. Instructions for a survey and an inventory of needs, suggestions for the allocation of resources according to needs and…

This guide contains materials which are designed to assist rural school systems in assessing educational needs, in systematically planning strategies to develop a dropout reduction program, and in applying for Title III funds. Included are instructions for a survey and an inventory of needs, suggestions for the allocation of resources according to…

This guide contains materials which are designed to assist rural school systems in assessing educational needs, in systematically planning strategies to develop an inservice teacher education program, and in applying for Title III funds. Included are instructions for a survey and an inventory of needs, suggestions for the allocation of resource…

Student Affirmative Action (SAA) outreach programs to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities and the economically disadvantaged in higher education in California started with little or no coordination and scant thought of evaluation. For a variety of reasons, which include how they were planned, how they are staffed and…

This guide contains materials which are designed to assist rural school systems in assessing educational needs, in systematically planning strategies to develop a communication skills program, and in applying for Title III funds. Included are instructions for a survey and an inventory of needs, suggestions for the allocation of resources according…

Contents of the New Mexico State Annual Evaluation Report for ESEA Title I Projects, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, include: New Mexico allocations for 1969-70; school districts allocations for 1969-70--basic statistics, state education agency staff visits to local education agencies, changes in the effect of state agency procedures, effect…

This manual is designed for social service agencies, educational institutions, and other organizations who want to strengthen their programming for economicaly disadvantaged teenage girls and young women. It provides materials for the development and implementation of NEW PASS, a unique career awareness program that uses nontraditional employment…

The original Higher Horizons Program or HH 100, was established in 1965 as a ninth grade compensatory model which could be used to demonstrate that some of the more salient ravages of educational deprivation could be corrected effectively, and at the high school level. So as to demonstrate that secondary school compensatory education could…

When legislation extended vocational assessment services to limited English proficient and economically/educationally disadvantaged students, which comprise 72 percent of grade 8-12 students in Norfolk (Virginia) Public Schools, innovations were needed to offer expanded services without additional personnel. A multiphase model of vocational…

The purpose of the demonstration programs in intensive reading and mathematics instruction for low-achieving students was essentially to enable school districts to establish and operate exemplary and innovative projects to improve the competence of junior high school students in reading and mathematics. Projects were limited to students in grades…

Descriptions are provided of eight career initiatives that were cited by the American Association for Career Education as programs, practices, and publications that work. Each description is accompanied by the name, address, and telephone number of a contact person. The initiatives are as follows: (1) Beyond High School Magazine, a 36- to 42-page…

As a part of its mandate for equal access to vocational training for special needs individuals, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1984 stipulated that if disadvantaged individuals require separate programming to enable them to participate in vocational education, federal funds may be used to pay 50 percent of the cost…