This collection of reports on French civilization represents the efforts of several teams of students participating in the 1964 NDEA summer institute at Rennes, France. As a partial requirement for the civilization course, the groups submitted field study reports of the cultural life at Rennes and Brittany including: (1) environment and…

The Preface Plan described in this report represents the first effort of a metropolitan school system to provide a concentrated relevant training program for new inner city staff that begins after being hired but prior to the assumption of teaching duties. The recent project in which it was field-tested was supported by a federal contract from the…

During the summer of 1971, the Administration of Atlanta Public Schools used Emergency School Assistance Program funds to utilize a summer camp as a living-working community which would be an integral part of a four-week fourth quarter, problem-solving course dealing with desegregation problems. The objective of this group was to serve as a model…

This document is a complete evaluation of a National Defense Education Act (NDEA) University of Illinois Summer Institute for Advanced Study in Oral Language Programs for Elementary Schools. The institute was designed to help teachers understand and implement fully detailed programs for oral communication instruction in self-contained elementary…

The growing interest in creating relevant learning experiences for students has resulted in an increased emphasis on using the entire community as a teaching resource. Community resources can be defined as those locally available materials, persons, organizations or experiences that are useful and valuable for educational purposes. Community…

The Open Classroom Institute started June 7, 1971, with a 1-week teacher training workshop followed by a 7-week innovative summer program in various curriculum areas for American Indian students in grades 1 through 3 at Concho School, Concho, Oklahoma. This publication is a statistical descriptive report covering the period June 7 - July 30, 1971.…

This teacher training institute was aimed primarily at developing teacher efficiency in the writing of behavioral objectives and in developing individualized instructional programs. The grant for the inservice program came as a result of communication between the schools of the ES '70 network which highlighted the need for training in these areas,…

Instituted as part of "Avenues Unlimited" (The Tower Hamlets Youth Project), a community development approach to youth services was attempted in the cosmopolitan inner city slum district of Spitalfields, East London. Efforts began in 1966 with a clean up campaign, a neighborhood club for parents and youth, and other activities by the…

The 1970 curriculum guide for migrant children was developed by the Virginia Beach School System around a philosophy that exposing the elementary school child to various experiences improves self-concept and enhances the child's growth in social and academic skills, language ability, vocabulary skills, cultural background, and health and…

A summer educational program for the children of migratory Spanish Americans in the Greeley area of Colorado is presented. Philosophically, the approach is one of continuous progress; organizationally, it is nongraded, with emphasis on individualized instruction. Three levels are discussed: Early Primary (ages 5-8), Primary (ages 7-10), and…

Evaluation reports for 10 of the 23 1971 Summer Migrant Projects in North Carolina are presented in Volume I of this compilation. Each report contains the following information: (1) descriptive statistics and results of student achievement; (2) description of the project as obtained from site team reports and other available information; and (3)…

The primary aim of this applied research project is to develop a curriculum package which can be replicated to prevent behavioral disorders that are learned, for all children in kindergarten through third grade. More specific objectives are to: substitute effective for ineffective behavior; increase the child's ability to function happily and well…

A five-week summer workshop offered inservice training to twenty-eight intermediate and high school social studies and English teachers. Participants examined the concepts of conflict, power and authority, identity, and interdependence through content and team working sessions, ranging from games to lectures, and independent study in an effort to…

This Final Report summarizes five years of development of cooperative summer and school-year programs between the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and community colleges. NYC Goes to Community College is a combined work and study program for economically disadvantaged youth, cooperatively conducted by local sponsors of Neighborhood Youth Corps and…

The 1968 annual evaluation of Kansas' Title I (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) State Migrant Program is presented in this report. The program was in operation in 9 school districts for 6 weeks during the summer and consisted of 931 children from preschool to 7th grade. The program's objectives were (1) to improve the child's…