This paper describes a place-based research demonstration program to promote and sustain employment among residents of selected public housing developments in U.S. cities. Because all eligible residents of the participating public housing developments were free to take part in the program, it was not possible to study its impacts in a classical…

Reporting a demonstration environmental education program in Corvallis, Oregon, schools. (Author)

Relates the construction and use of a strobe unit as an instructional aid. The second of a 2-part article. (MU)

Paper delivered at the 18th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1971. (CB)

Operation Opportunity was a demonstration project sponsored by General Foods to hire disadvantaged high school students for summer jobs and to hold in escrow one dollar for every dollar earned for future education or vocational training at any approved institution. (BC)

The curriculum for kindergarten through college and continuing education must serve all: "the college-bound student, the soon-to-be-married student, and the student heading for the labor market upon high school graduation. (JK/Author)

Describes program committed to early identification of children in low incidence areas of exceptionality, and development of specialized services for them. Focus here is on visual screening. (Author/CJ)

Project Technology has tried to counteract the drift away from science and technology by encouraging the development of projects which are relevant and beneficial to society and by giving students an idea of the positive potentials of technology. (BC)

The preparation of interested and well-trained individuals for service in editorial, advertising, and management positions on rural and small town newspapers is the intent of Sampson Technical Institute's 2-year pilot journalism program. (JO)

Survey results showed a reduction of 22.3 percent in the use of major and minor tranquillizers, indicating that a change in the emphasis of care toward training and a less institutionalized environment may help to reduce the need for drug therapy to control deviant behavior in intellectually handicapped people. (Author/SW)

In ComputerTown, USA!, a corner of the children's section at the Menlo Park Public Library, children and adults are trained to use microcomputers. This is one of the top five winners in American Libraries' competition to identify innovative library programs. (LLS)

All 21 of the first cohort of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) demonstration projects were contacted to determine whether each had maintained continuation funding of the direct services components of the demonstration model. (Author)