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PDF pending restorationStotsky, Sandra – 1979
This paper contains a description of key features of the Summer Institute on Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills, which was organized to help parents, teachers, and administrators in the Boston Public Schools begin to develop a comprehensive and coordinated writing program from kindergarten through grade 12 in each district. It also offers…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Parent Participation, Program Descriptions
Download full textCOOKE, LOT H., JR.; MORINE, JOHN P. – 1966
THIRTY-FOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELORS FROM SIX NEW ENGLAND STATES, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATED IN AN INSTITUTE TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROBLEMS AND SPECIAL TECHNIQUES INVOLVED IN COUNSELING THE URBAN DISADVANTAGED STUDENT. THE PROGRAM CONSISTED OF LECTURES BY OUTSTANDING AUTHORITIES IN THE FIELD, LIMITED DISCUSSION PERIODS,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Guidance Personnel, Institutes (Training Programs)
Wailes, James R. – 1968
This account of the history of the National Science Foundation Elementary Institutes begins with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Act of 1950. The Cooperative College-School Science Program and pilot programs prior to fiscal year 1959 are described. Separate sections are devoted to the presentation of statistics for each Summer Institute…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Professional Continuing Education
Womble, Melodie L. – 1977
A random sample of fourth and eighth grade Title I students who either did or did not attend summer school was tested to determine what effect the Title I summer school program had on student achievement and summer loss in reading and mathematics. Academic achievement was assessed by the Stanford Achievement Tests. The results indicated summer…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Zigler, John T.; And Others – 1975
This study concerned whether a model designed to enchance educational accountability developed by university science educators could be used to enhance science educational accountability in a public middle school. Participants in the study were 39 teachers who attended a combined summer/inservice institute in the summer of 1973 at Ball State…
Descriptors: Accountability, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Instruction
Gibbs, Gordon L.; And Others – 1970
The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Summer Reading Program is a parent-administered program designed to help children maintain the reading skills that they acquired in kindergarten through participation in a communication skills program. The subjects of the experimental group were 389 kindergarten students in four California school districts.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Angelino, Henry; And Others – 1974
This document, containing several papers, reports on the evolution of a workshop model which deals with the development of techniques, principles, and intervention programs for disadvantaged children and youth. School psychologists, teachers, supervisors, and administrators who attended three summer institutes and two followup programs were…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Disadvantaged Youth, Institutes (Training Programs), Models
Sullivan, Stephanie Carlson; McAlpine, Julie Carlson – 1974
Important in any junior or senior high school library or guidance department is an up-to-date list of books which provide students with information on part-time and summer job opportunities, as well as career data. This selectively compiled bibliography is divided into "Summer Jobs and Part-time Work Opportunities" and "Career Information." Few of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Employment Opportunities, Information Sources
Manpower Evaluation and Development Inst. Washington, DC. Migrant Research Project. – 1970
An experimental demonstration research project to provide food for families of migrant children attending a summer school program in Minnesota was based on the assumptions (1) that the migrant children in summer school would show greater achievement if the entire migrant family were assured food for 3 meals a day and (2) that the child who has…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Family Attitudes, Family Programs, Interviews
Toledo Public Schools, OH. – 1970
This is a series of seven reports describing and evaluating the following physical or basic skills development programs: Bicycle Program, Camping Program, Swim For Your Life, Outward Bound, Physical Skills Development Program, Community Summer School Programs, and Operation Recover. Modes of program operation and statistical data about students…
Descriptors: Camping, Compensatory Education, Outdoor Education, Program Evaluation
Fox, David J.; Ward, Eric – 1967
Evaluated is a summer project, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I in New York City. A group of musically talented high school students from the city's poverty areas prepared a program stressing the musical contributions of minority groups. This program was presented at elementary school assemblies. Assessment of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation, Federal Programs, Music Activities
Ridley, Agnes Fenster – 1969
The last phase of this three-phase study involved an off-campus inservice education class for home economics teachers and a summer workshop. The class was conducted in four locations within the state, and enrolled 58 persons including county home economics supervisors, vocational supervisors, and home economics teachers. Course requirements were…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Home Economics Teachers, Inservice Education, Occupational Home Economics
Lickona, Thomas – 1971
This paper discusses the basic components of a quality summer compensatory program which includes (1) definite objectives, (2) planned, directed teaching, (3) division of responsibility, and (4) internal evaluation. The findings of the Westinghouse report on Head Start and the Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project are discussed.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation
Meyer, William J.; Egeland, Byron – 1968
This evaluation of cognitive change in Head Start children focused on changes in performance as opposed to changes in competence; specifically, that Binet test performance improves as a function of experience with Binet examiners. The study involved 93 children assigned to four groups who were tested for IQ gains during a 6-week Head Start program…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged
Endler, Norman S.; Minden, Harold A. – 1971
Normal achievers were compared with underachievers on measures of anxiety, curiosity, motivation, conformity, self concept, and achievement. The 40 male underachieving children (age range 8 to 13 years) with learning disabilities received a 6-week remedial training program relevant to their deficits, in addition to a regular summer camp program,…
Descriptors: Camping, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research, Junior High School Students
