The energy crisis, specifically a shortage of natural gas, caused by the unusually cold winter of 1977, resulted in the Columbus, Ohio, schools being closed for a month. Schools heated with gas were closed, but students met one day a week in school buildings that used coal, oil, or electricity. The educational program continued with school…

Performance-oriented instruction was developed, field tested, and refined in two Advanced Individual Training (AIT) programs--Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (MOS 11D) and Armor Crewman (MOS 11E). Tasks for both MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) were inventoried and the inventories were reduced by eliminating those tasks which are not required…

The Culver City (Calif.) Schools' Spanish Immersion Program (SIP) offers an innovative and highly successful approach to the development of proficiency in a foreign language in the elementary grades. This approach differs from most bilingual programs in that for the first two years the students are completely immersed in Spanish. When the students…

This district-wide evaluation study of the Berkeley Unified School District documents, describes, and analyzes several major components of the system as they existed in the 1974-75 academic year. The process study, presented in these two volumes, documents and describes a set of district elements which differ from one another in degree of…

The School Within-A-School (SWS) Project was initiated during the 1970-71 school year with the Waimanalo School seventh graders who have now completed their second year with the project as eighth graders. The major goals of the SWS program rested on the assumption that students in Waimanalo have particular needs created by limited experimential…

The Mulligan Stew television series on nutritional principles for elementary school students was evaluated using a systems model. The study included student responses in eight schools and evaluation of responses from nutrition specialists, information specialists, television station personnel, and teachers. Agricultural college information…

Because French boys command a sharper accuracy of thought and form in their speaking and writing than do young Americans of the same age, this book examines the educational system in France for the light it might shed on the teaching of English in America. Chapters consider (1) syllabi for two kindergarten-through-high-school courses in…

The Project on Recreation and Fitness for the Mentally Retarded and the objectives of such programs are reviewed. Activity areas surveyed include physical fitness, motor ability, sports skills, special events, and recreation. Also considered are the following: testing and measuring individual progress, including psychomotor and physical fitness…

A total of 168 research studies, published since 1962 and using data collection instruments suitable for home economics research, were selected through a computer search of Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) publications and a manual search of non-ERIC publications. Entries are organized according to these categories: (1) Manpower…

Funded by a state grant through the Bureau of In-Service Education under the Education Professions Development Act, Part F, this 2-week summer institute and 1-semester follow-up project to improve skills in working with minority group students was sponsored by New York City Community College and the Division of Teacher Education of the City…

The objective of the Gulfport Summer School project was to improve the teaching techniques in the English program so that unmotivated and underachieving students could experience some success. Students were grouped in English classes according to their spelling and language scores on the Stanford Achievement Test, Form X, in classes of from 10 to…

A project to improve the leadership competency of personnel responsible for program development and implementation in ABE is presented. The intent of the program planners was to help the ABE administrator discover new patterns of need, to search for new teaching formats and content, and to reassess the relationships which exist in the world of…

This analysis of the impact of a result demonstration educational program was made in an effort to achieve the following goals: (1) identification of the objectives of the educational program; (2) description of the program; (3) assessment of awareness of the program by target clientele; (4) measurement of the amount of change that takes place;…

Although it deals with both years of the program, this report is primarily concerned with the second year of Project ORDER. The program's objectives were to improve the general school atmosphere, including teacher, student, and parent attitudes toward the school; to show continued significant improvement in pupil behavior; and to substantially…

Parent Cooperative Preschool, designed to provide experiences tailored to the children enrolled, teaches specific skills the children will need when they begin informal schooling, and develops parent-child relationships which will sustain motivation once the child enters public school. The preschool operates on the premise that these goals can be…