Describes the Small Grants Award program developed by the North Country School Study Council and the Central New York School Study Council to help finance innovative projects proposed by teachers. (JG)

An experimental research project, Baltimore Employee Health Program (EHP), is seeking ways to identify and help workers with drinking problems while retaining them on the job. (Author)

A rationale is developed for use of computerized Monte Carlo simulation models in the economics and finance curricula. (Author)

The main goal of the Vocational Placement Project of the Rutgers Medical School Community Mental Health Center (New Jersey) is to investigate ways to improve vocational rehabilitation and educational programs for the chronically mentally ill. A quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate a pilot vocational rehabilitation program to determine if…

Describes an experimental program, launched by educators in Chester County, southeastern Pennsylvania, that was designed to give high school students a chance to explore careers. (Author)

Describes the planning work of the National Research Development Corporation. The planning approach looks across and beyond the boundaries of existing academic and industrial categories to uncover opportunities for the generation of projects at an early stage. (WM)

Methods for validating nontraditional study are discussed and the premises on which they are based are the subject of this article. (Editor/PG)

The purpose of this publication is to provide school officials and others concerned with the concept of alternative educational programs a summary of research pertaining to the evaluation of such programs. Included are an overview of the history of alternative schools, a discussion of the issues and trends associated with alternative schools,…

Availability information in CS 703 509. (JW)

Describes a 10-week summer program which emerged from a preschool center program in New Jersey. The program accomodates 80 children, 11-14 years of age, from black, Hispanic, and white families. (ED)

When total scores on the California Preschool Social Competency Scale (CPSCS) of disadvantaged children attending New York State experimental prekindergarten programs in 1975-76 were replaced by factor scores derived through principal component analysis, exposure time had no significant relationship to three components of the scale:…

THE NATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE USE OF TELEVISION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS AN EFFORT TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING TELEVISED INSTRUCTION AS A MAJOR RESOURCE IN THE TEACHING OF LARGE CLASSES. IT WAS ALSO CONCERNED WITH--THE KIND AND AMOUNT OF OTHER SERVICES NEEDED TO SET UP OPTIMUM CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING, SCHEDULING AND SCHOOL BUILDING…

A PROJECT WHOSE PURPOSES WERE TO FOSTER BILINGUALISM, FORESTALL ANTICIPATED DIFFICULTIES IN SCIENCE, AND PROVIDE THE MOTIVATION AND COURSE REQUIREMENTS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS IN HIGH SCHOOL IS DESCRIBED AND ASSESSED IN THIS REPORT. TWO SEVENTH-GRADE CLASSES OF SIMILAR AGE, LANGUAGE BACKGROUND, AND ABILITIES WERE GIVEN THE SAME OR EQUIVALENT PROGRAM…

A FLEXIBLE PROGRAM INITIATED AT CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TO DEAL WITH THE ACADEMIC AND HUMAN DETERIORATION OF STUDENTS IS DESCRIBED. A COMPARISON OF THE INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM STUDENTS WITH A MATCHED CONTROL GROUP FROM REGULAR CASES REVEALED THAT THE "CONTROLS" DID NOT IMPROVE AND, IN FACT, OFTEN SHOWED FURTHER DETERIORATION,…