The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is establishing a new discretionary grant program entitled Replication of Project New Pride: A Serious Offender Youth Treatment Program. Project New Pride was chosen for replication because of its demonstrated effectiveness in Denver, Colorado,…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO ASSESS THE VARIABLES RELATED TO PUPIL MALADJUSTMENT AND TO DETERMINE WHETHER DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT WAS ACCORDED TO THE MALADJUSTED PUPILS ON THE BASIS OF THESE VARIABLES. THE POPULATION CONSISTED OF 2,866 PUPILS REFERRED TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES…

DURING ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION THE CENTER MADE ITS SERVICES KNOWN TO HELP SCHOOLS ELIMINATE THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DESEGREGATION. AMONG THE PROBLEM AREAS INVESTIGATED IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, CLINICS, INSTITUTES, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS WERE--CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE SERVICES, TEACHING METHODS, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES,…

AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES IS PRESENTED ALONG WITH SYMPTOMS AND DEFINITIONS OF UNDER-DEVELOPED OR DEVELOPING ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. COMMON EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE DISCUSSED, AND A COMPARISON IS DRAWN BETWEEN THE PROBLEMS THAT MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED…

Eleven papers, most of them with an experimental or empirical viewpoint, discuss childhood behavior disorders. R. Lapouse and M. Monk present an epidemiologic study of behavior characteristics; J. Roach and others describe sociopsychological characteristics of a child guidance clinic caseload; D. Peterson treats behavior problems of middle…

The historical development of programs for orthopedically handicapped children, class units and hospital classes approved during 1967-68, and the number of therapy units established are presented. Tables give data on program population: enrollment for years 1962-68, percent of handicaps enrolled, and IQ distributions. Aspects of occupational…

A 100-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles in Polish comprises the third in a series produced to provide information on various aspects of education in Poland. Major attention is given to the types and levels of schooling with listings covering preschool, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special, and higher…

A 107-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles in Polish comprises the fourth in a series produced to provide information on various aspects of education in Poland. Major attention is given to the different types and levels of schooling with listings covering preschool, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special, and…

A 123-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles in English and Indic languages comprises this volume produced to provide information on various aspects of education in Pakistan. Significant emphasis is placed on the sections treating (1) languages and medium of instruction and (2) educational goals, developments, methods,…

OUTLINED IN THIS REPORT ARE STATE AND LOCAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I PROGRAM OBJECTIVES, SPECIALIZED PERSONNEL, DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS, AND STABILITY OF ADMINISTRATION AND FUNDING. AMONG THE PROPOSALS FOR DEALING WITH THESE PROBLEMS ARE SUGGESTIONS FOR REGIONAL OFFICES TO ADMINISTER AND EVALUATE…

During the first phase of this project, from June 1964 to November 1965, the effectiveness and feasibility of centralized training in offsetting the employment problems of rural Alaska were tested. Recruitment was handled through mail contacts with village councils and subsequent recruitment trips to the villages. Training at a state vocational…

This is the ninth in a series of general bibliographies which are being developed to disseminate information concerning documents analyzed at the ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science Education. Reported are over 100 citations to selected documents in the areas of (1) evaluation, (2) educational objectives, (3) learning theories and…

Under Project Concern minority group children in Hartford, Conn., were bused to 33 elementary schools in five suburban school systems. The goals were to change the de facto desegregation of the inner city schools, to design an effective, supportive educational intervention program to arrest and remediate school failure, and to evaluate the…

The appendix to the study illustrates the three instruments used for gathering data and the four sets of statistical tabulations serving as a basis for the study's recommendations. The instruments are (1) a questionnaire regarding selected characteristics of Iowa county school systems; (2) a questionnaire regarding alternative methods for the…

A retreat from verbal communication has occurred in contemporary society because of new emphases on ritual and the apparent inadequacy of verbal expression in science and art. Formal ritual surrounds people and involves all human senses; but printed matter or words separate the senses and reduce reality to a one-dimensional, sequential…