The University of Minnesota Martin Luther King Tutorial Program is discussed. Part One gives the basic plan of the program. Part Two discusses the recruiting of students. A description of the students is presented in Part Three. The tutorial groups in operation is discussed in Part Four. This included launching the program, defining staff roles,…

The final report of the Roberson Center Title III Project, establishing the Upper Susquehanna Regional Supplementary Educational Service Center, includes a complete description of the teaching activities, finances, organization and programs of the experimental project. The central purpose of the project was to provide, through various practical…

The book, in a three-ring binder format, is the final product of the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project and was designed and field tested to assist local leaders with the various activities vital to the effective planning, implementation, and evaluation of career preparation programs utilizing a management by objectives approach. The first…

As is enunciated by its policy guidelines, funds for compensatory education are being used to provide a diversity of intervention experiences for disadvantaged children. Difficulty in recognizing these implementation practices and outcomes has arisen because of a more popular, but narrow, view of compensatory education. Instead of attempting to…

This is a report of an EPDA sponsored project which trained program directors, administrators, teachers, parent educators, Policy Advisory Committee chairmen and parents, as well as other key staff members to implement the Florida Parent Education Follow Through Model. There are two major parts (VI and VII) to this report. The first part describes…

Presented here in chronological order, are all the speeches given at the conference. Topics discussed include year-round use of schools as they relate to the needs of youth, basic designs for year-round education, major developments across the nation, projecting savings in classroom space or dollars through rescheduling the school year, year-round…

The document evaluated the first year (1972-73) of operation of the Indian Students' University Programme (ISUP) at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Early in 1972 a plan was developed with the Department of Indian Affairs whereby the University was to receive up to 50 non-matriculated American Indian students in September 1972.…

The significance of a planning-programing-budgeting system for educational use lies in its ability to improve educational planning and cost effectiveness. As part of the Western New York PPBS project, a model for implementing PPBS in districts of fewer than 25,000 students was developed and tested. The completed model consists of three components:…

A program structure relates objectives and activities by identifying and measuring objectives (including all activities) and by allowing for growth. The process of program structuring categorizes the activities of education into programs according to their contribution to meeting education objectives and provides a format for the program budget.…

Many career education programs have been criticized because they concentrate on dispensing information instead of developing competencies. Part of this weakness can be traced to the absence of a rationale derived from the body of literature and research and supported by a knowledge of child growth and development. This project was designed to show…

The bilingual is an individual who straddles and/or links, to a greater or lesser degree, two or more languages and cultures. The degree of language and cultural dominance can vary from individual to individual, and bilingual programs must take this variety into consideration. This paper considers some of the varying degrees of bilingual…

American Indian people, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the nation all have a common interest in assuring a quality education for Indian children. No education program can be truly effective, however, unless it has the support and the involvement of those directly benefiting from it--the Indian students, parents, and communities.…

This article is designed to assist planners of inservice programs to broaden the range of courses and other types of activities offered within their system of training. Five basic dimensions of an inservice course must be considered: time, people, form, objectives, and sponsor. These dimensions are expanded into a comprehensive working checklist…

This compilation presents drafts and plans of staff development programs designed by participants of the Institute for Training in Staff Development for 21 western libraries. To provide a context for examination of the models, an overview outlines the necessary components for a successful staff development program. Section I considers staff…

Outlined here is a province-wide computer system that brings benefits to both schools and students. (Editor)