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Can We Have Equality and Educational Excellence? A Proposal for Maximum Gain for Minimum Investment.
Gallagher, James J. – 1980
Not nearly enough money is going into the identification and development of gifted and talented children. Policy is more concerned with eliminating inequity than developing talent. A strong belief in equal treatment and opportunity has been translated into special education efforts for children in crisis, but not for children with special gifts.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Research
Miller, Melvin D.; Wilkins, Sandra – 1979
A third-party evaluation was designed to document the processes undertaken to implement a Memphis, Tennessee, experience-based career education (EBCE) program. It also intended to assess project effects on student outcomes. Evaluation included pre- and post-testing of a control group and experimental group of tenth grade students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning
Rawlings, Lyngrid S.; Davison, Jean B. – 1980
The External High School Diploma (EHSD) Program is a specially developed program to grant credits to urban adults for skills developed through life experiences. This District of Columbia program is designed to grant credit for life experiences and career-related skills by documenting the levels of knowledge and skills adults have attained by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competence, Demonstration Programs, Equivalency Tests
Weisz, Vera C. – 1980
Project HIRE is a special program conducted by Middlesex Community College since October 1978 to help people 55 years of age and older find paid employment. The specific goals of the project, as it was originally conceived, were to: (1) open three intake centers; (2) register clients at the centers; (3) provide career counseling; (4) offer…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs, Employment Services
Hall, Helen C. – 1980
The purpose of the Promising Practices Diffusion Project, 1979-80, was to further develop, implement, and improve a statewide system for disseminating Promising Practices in vocational and career education. (Promising Practices are those exemplary projects which have met established criteria of quality.) During the first stage, a project base was…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Diffusion, Information Dissemination
Download full textMaughan, Joyce B. – 1977
Presented is a guide for developing a program for gifted and talented students (in grades k-8) which was originally implemented with 60 students in the Kyrene School District (Tempe, Arizona). Part I covers such program aspects as philosophy, goals, ways of dealing with opposition from teachers, parents, the community, the Board of Education, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creativity, Curriculum, Curriculum Guides
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experience as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the fourteenth in a series of 19 hearings dating…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agency Cooperation, Antisocial Behavior, Child Abuse
KAUFFMAN, EARL – 1967
FOUR KENTUCKY COMMUNITIES WITH COMMUNITY COLLEGES WERE CHOSEN, ON THE BASIS OF A "COMMUNITY READINESS PROFILE," FOR A PILOT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT IN CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS. A STEERING COMMITTEE AND LOCAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES WERE SET UP, TOGETHER WITH LOCAL PROGRAM COORDINATORS. BY MEANS OF A SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE, TEN…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Age
KITZMILLER, RICHARD L. – 1967
THE TERM "SLOW LEARNER" IS USED IN THIS REPORT TO DESIGNATE THE 18 TO 20 PERCENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO MEASURE APPROXIMATELY 50 TO 89 IQ ON INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS. THE PURPOSES OF THE PROJECT WERE TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY BEST SUITED TO THE ABILITIES AND INTERESTS OF THE SLOW LEARNER, ADOPT CRITERIA FOR OPTIMUM…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Courses, Curriculum Research, Demonstration Programs
Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – 1969
The articles in this double issue of the "IRCD Bulletin" deal with the proposed decentralization of the New York City school system. Edmund Gordon argues that decentralization can provide the best organizational structure--(1) to make the schools accountable to the parents and communities they serve, (2) to place the responsibility for…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Black Power, Board of Education Policy, Community Influence
Zeller, Frederick A., Ed.; Miller, Robert W., Ed. – 1968
Beginning with a review of the problems and general conditions of Appalachia, this book analyzes past, present, and future manpower needs at both the national and regional levels; outlines and discusses noteworthy Federal programs of manpower research and action; examines the role of formal education and training in manpower development as seen by…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Employment, Extension Education
Cohen, Eli E.; And Others – 1966
To demonstrate the value of employing "indigenous" adults as semi-professional workers in youth employment programs or agencies, this program was conducted between November 1964 and December 1965 in New York City. Sixty male and female adults aged 22 or older were carefully selected, to participate in 12 weeks of training with no guarantee of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs, Employment Problems
Wick, S.K.; Kavanaugh, W.A. – 1967
The purpose of this project was to revise and reformat 12 instructional units for the professional, pre-service education of potential vocational teachers in Minnesota. These 2-hour units include 30-minute filmed presentations. Developmental activities included the trial use of these units on 60 potential teachers in four separate classes. The…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Course Organization, Demonstration Programs
Dobrovolny, Jerry S.; And Others – 1968
The purposes of the project were (1) to establish better methods of training technicians for the horological and industrial fields, (2) to encourage more young people to investigate horological and micro-precision work as a career, (3) to train a group of students who would be employable in diverse horological and industrial areas, and (4) to help…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Bonafield, Joyce, Ed. – 1976
This is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in demonstration programs designed to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This guide offers a step-by-step approach to setting up and conducting a parenthood program for teenage leaders in day camps and community centers.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Care, Child Development, Community Centers
