The ensuing report is a counselor's first hand account of her experience with Vermont's Manpower Pilot Project on Public Service Employment. This statewide project was designed to test temporary subsidized employment in nonprofit agencies for low income clients. The report describes and refers to many case studies, specifically those who entered…

Volume IV of the evaluation report consists of case studies from 10 migrant education projects in 8 of the sample States. These projects were visited in July through September 1973. The case studies give noteworthy or innovative aspects of the projects, detailed descriptions, and the functions. The projects are: (1) Harnett County Summer Migrant…

This report deals with a preliminary investigation of the problems associated with the determination of the total life costs of buildings, including cyclical renewal. It discusses also the benefits to be derived from this information, using life costs of a selected building as an example. The first portion of the publication considers problems in…

This presentation comprises an account of the years from 1966 to 1970 during which a proposal to construct four educational parks or compus schools to accommodate all elementary school (K-6) children was made, discussed, researched, publicized, and ultimately defeated. As defined in the literature, educational parks are clusterings of educational…

As new educational programs emerge and changes are made to meet the needs of pupils, appropriate adaptations must likewise be made in school buildings. This publication relates programs for exceptional children to the facilities that make possible the implementation of such programs. The exemplary programs and facilities described in this…

This resource unit, developed by the University of Minnesota's Project Social Studies, introduces eighth graders to the judicial process. The unit was designed with two major purposes in mind. First, it helps pupils understand judicial decision-making, and second, it provides for the study of the rights guaranteed by the federal Constitution. Both…

This interim report, commissioned by UNICEF, emphasizes the value of nonformal educational programs to educationally deprived rural children and youth in developing countries. The first set of basic findings and recommendations arising from this extensive international research study is presented. Organized into five chapters, the text includes…

"Families of the World," a series of five, thirty minute television programs designed for elementary children, was produced by the Japanese Broadcasting Company and UNICEF. The programs document the changing role of the family by depicting every day family life in five representative countries throughout the developing world: India,…

The study reported in this document attempted to determine the effect of population growth on education costs in developing countries, given various assumptions as to the future trend of fertility and mortality. The population factor was examined along with other factors influencing educational costs, such as the improvement of enrollment ratios,…

Five of the six papers in this monograph describe case studies of four schools in the initial year of implementing differentiated staffing. These studies attempted to identify issues and generate hypotheses regarding the process of innovation implementation that would be worthy of more precise subsequent investigation. Researchers ended the…

New fiscal and administrative patterns are being considered or implemented in many States to provide quality education, accessible to all, at costs the public can accept and support. This paper is concerned with the structure of delivery systems whereby services are provided to pupils. Specifically it deals with the re-emergence of the…

Physically integrating social services with schools might be a feasible way of providing social services at a lower cost and/or might lead to improved social services. Examination of 10 school/social service complexes reveals an attempt to redefine the neighborhood at the same time enlarging and rendering it less parochial. The rapidly expanding…

An evaluation of the 1969-70 ESEA/Title I programs in the Mishawaka, Indiana school system is presented. Three separate programs are described. (1) A remedial reading program was designed to begin at a level on which the child could read easily and subsequently progress to higher levels. This program involved 391 students in grades 2 through 6.…

This book presents a rational discussion process approach to the teaching of specific social controversies in the social studies in secondary schools. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of this approach which includes both theory and application. The introductory chapters place the discussion process framework within terms of American values…

This study of the first year of an inter-organizational diffusion effort by a national educational laboratory, a state department of education, and nine local school districts focuses on the implementation phase within the Research, Development and Diffusion (RD and D) strategy of an aesthetic education program which uses the arts as the…