The Las Cruces (New Mexico) Public Schools' Advanced Education Program offers gifted students a means of accelerating through the curriculum. The pilot program features a district advisory committee, facilitators, course credit, transportation to other schools, and a caseload approach. Activities are designed around four goals: flexibility;…

Describes a Dade County (Florida) Schools pilot program to decentralize the district's schools and adopt teaching professionalization as a primary goal. Using various committees and task forces, the district formulated goals, developed a shared decision-making model, addressed management/labor issues, and provided team training opportunities. (MLH)

Describes a special media project designed to identify measures needed to improve management and preservation of machine readable records at the New York State Archives. Topics discussed include the criteria used to select records, relationships between record-producing agencies and the archives, and the impact of electronic records on reference…

The Whole Language Approach to learning is used to develop reading, writing, and language skills in primary grades and science and social studies skills in intermediate grades. The program is described and its techniques of immersion, theme building, brainstorming, implementation, and flexible grouping are discussed. (JL)

The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Clinic was a pilot project to assess the feasibility and efficacy of providing university-based clinical practicum experiences for students. This program was based on an interdisciplinary model of education. Program evaluation data from patients, faculty, and students supported the success of interdisciplinary…

Describes development of a 3-year technology education program being implemented in Oklahoma. The major categories of study are (1) communication, (2) construction, (3) manufacturing, and (4) transportation. (CH)

Describes a program in the Philippines that provides basic skills and skills upgrading courses for women in nontraditional occupations so that they can find employment and actively participate in the country's industrialization campaign. Program content, design, evaluation, and effectiveness are examined. (CT)

Describes database development, teacher reaction and use, and goals of a pilot study by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), which provided Minnesota secondary school social studies teachers with complete lesson plans based on and accompanied by articles reprinted from newspapers to supply contemporary examples of the issues…

Presents a pilot project that describes a model of counseling intervention using a consultant and counselor team, working with families (N=14) having children enrolled in elementary schools. Concludes that school counselors can, with training, develop basic family counseling skills. (LLL)

A pilot project involving 44 secondary schools in 3 school districts focuses the attention of the entire school community on crime and discipline problems. Incident reporting, crime analysis techniques, and resource teams are utilized. (MLF)

Description of the Optical Disk Pilot Program of the Library of Congress defines characteristics and differences between analog videodisks and optical digital disk technology. Benefits of the optical digital disk, material selection, and the system configuration (bibliographic indexing, document preparation and input scanning, image and record…

A critical assessment of the 10-year Experimental World Literacy Program (EWLP), which consisted of a series of pilot projects and micro-experiments in different countries (Algeria, Ecuador, Iran, Mali, Ethiopia, Guinea, Madgascar, Tanzania, Sudan, Zambia, and Venezuela) sponsored by UNESCO, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and various…

Describes bilingual programing that promotes cultural plurality and positive self image. (DB)

This paper informs about the Czech involvement in the project "Bridges across Boundaries...". Mission statement, main forms of work and also more detailed information on one participating school's relevant activities are paid attention to. Authors emphasise richness and usefulness of project activities, enthusiasm of those involved,…

This report, the fifth in a serious of reports about the evaluation of the National School Lunch Program focuses on issues relating to applications for free or reduced-price meals. In particular, it presents (1) an impact analysis of the effects of the pilot policies on the number of applications submitted, and (2) a descriptive analysis of the…