Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are the focus of this inventory of ESEA Title III projects for the State of Delaware, fiscal year 1974. Sixteen operating projects are described in Part I…

Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this document about Missouri ESEA Title III exemplary programs. Nineteen projects completing the third year of operation, thirteen…

The Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia has been designated by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration as an "Exemplary Project" which other communities may consider for replication in establishing legal services for the poor. The guide to the operations of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia…

This report evaluates a three-year-demonstration program in child advocacy, created as part of existing Head Start Parent-Child Centers to meet the needs of children under 5 and their families. Local services were integrated and new services created in a variety of areas (health, housing, education and welfare) using a primarily paraprofessional…

Though the Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) system had the capacity to deliver quality broadcast signals to specially designed ground terminals its budget did not provide for more than one receiver in each rural community. In order to translate the satellite signal into a broadcast available to the individual home viewer, several systems…

These conference proceedings are divided into two parts: (1) teacher training institutions and the need for multicultural education, and (2) models that have been developed to facilitate staff training and development. Papers presented in the first section are said to indicate that preservice education in the area of multicultural education at…

Based on the available documentation of Title V (Rural Development Act of 1972) rural development programs currently underway in the Western Region (13 states), this report summarizes project endeavors to: (1) improve income and employment; (2) enrich environmental quality; (3) enhance social and health amenities; and (4) improve the quality of…

The third party evaluation report covers the 1974-75 school year, the second year of the demonstration project. Summarized are the background, goals, and objectives of the project. Evaluation is centered upon four major information domains or evaluation areas of interest: student self-concept, student decision-making skills, student relationship…

Intended for persons involved in planning and implementing prison vocational training programs, the guide contains detailed information on 66 inmate training programs throughout the country. Programs were selected for inclusion on the basis of meeting the following criteria: courses should be transportable or reproducible; have some unique…

This paper reports on phase one of the evaluation of a career information center established in a secondary school as a demonstration projects. The evaluation is based on a questionnaire developed to probe students' views regarding future planning, and to ascertain what plans they themselves were making. Interviews were also conducted to gain…

This paper reports on phase three of the evaluation of a model career information center established in a secondary school as a demonstration project. This report contains comparative data obtained from student responses, one year after the center had been in operation. This survey found that while the number of students seeking assistance from a…

The handbook provides a guide for elementary school teachers (grades 1 through 6) in developing a curriculum around five general concepts: (1) there is dignity in all work, (2) the life of a culture depends on its workers who produce goods and services, (3) there are many kinds of work, (4) mankind uses tools for work, and (5) work has rewards.…

The publication outlines the role of the Youth Development Program (YDP) director, a position which requires a positive relationship with the Community Action Agency (CAA) executive (through which the YDP is funded) and with the Youth Council in order to develop an effective program. The first of four sections of the guide describes the nature of…

The manual provides information on procedures--the videotape recording procedure (VTR), the mobile resource center (MRC), and the child services specialist (CSS)--developed and used in the Cooperstown (New York) Head Start Program, a 3-year experimental project for developing ways to deliver services to rural area preschool children with special…

The appraisal awareness committee of Region XX (made up of 51 school districts in the San Antonio, Texas area) CASE (Council for Administrators of Special Education) studied issues connected with the student appraisal process particularly in the categories of language/learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, and mentally handicapped. The…