An early childhood resource teacher implemented a practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of at-risk kindergartners and first and second graders in a low-income, inner-city area in central Florida. The intervention involved the transformation of self-contained, graded classrooms into primary units comprised of multi-age…

The purpose of "Operation Challenge" developed at the Center of Excellence, North Florida Junior College, is identifying potential college students and motivating them to complete high school and enroll in post-secondary education. During its first year of operation several components were implemented: (1) the identification and…

An eight-week summer program was conducted to prevent 80 high-risk adolescents from dropping out of high school. The 32 females and 48 males selected for the project were all residents of rural areas of northern Louisiana who had been identified by their public school guidance counselors as being at high risk of dropping out. The program model…

The California Mathematics Project was established in 1982 by the California State Legislature as one of several statewide responses to a widespread perception among educators and the public at large that the mathematical competence of American children has deteriorated. This report describes an attempt to evaluate the first year's work of one…

The fourth year of the Test Preparation Program for Gifted and Talented Sophomores (TPPGTS) is evaluated. This 6-week, 75-hour test coaching program was developed to teach high-achieving students principles/strategies required for doing well on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT)/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test to increase…

This report describes three programs in Oregon and Washington which provide opportunities for teachers to update their skills by spending their summer in structured work experience or internship programs in business and industry. Benefits to teachers are listed as well as characteristics of successful programs. The programs are: (1) Economic…

The summer of 1983 Reading and Mathematics with Athletics program in New York City provided supplementary remediation in reading and math to 2,157 handicapped New York City students by incorporating sports activities and concepts into instruction. The program was highly effective in meeting its proposed goals and showed marked improvement over…

In an effort to improve minority recruitment and retention, the University of Arizona collaborated with Pima Community College to launch the Exploratory Transfer Institute (ETI), a summer program to encourage minority students who were not considering transfer to do so. The ETI was conceived, planned, and implemented through a relatively complex…

The impact of 2-week summer workshops and weekend reunions on college faculty who participated in the Stanford Program for Faculty Renewal was assessed using a questionnaire completed by 123 workshop participants, workshop and reunion observations, and interviews with 18 persons at 10 campuses. About two-thirds of the respondents were associate or…

This document provides a description and evaluation of a project designed to develop leadership among K-8 mathematics teachers in San Francisco (California). The project attempted to: (1) provide teams of urban teachers with a year-long program to improve mathematical problem solving skills, build confidence, and increase classroom effectiveness;…

Program descriptions, articles, an annotated bibliography, and a survey report on programs and services for students who are underprepared for college work as freshmen are presented. The survey report considers program design and delivery strategies at about 300 colleges, and the program descriptions concern: advising, basic skills instruction and…

This report presents an evaluation of Lockheed TEC, a pilot program established by the Lockheed Georgia Company as a joint summer employment venture with other Georgia institutions. The goal of this program for economically qualified high school juniors and seniors was to expose them to aerospace technology through four program objectives. These…

The Medical/Dental Education Preparatory Program (MEDPREP) at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine at Carbondale prepares underrepresented minorities for medical school admission. This paper reports on the evaluation of the MEDPREP Summer Review program by the comparison of participant and non-participant score gains on the Medical…

Described is a summer institute designed to teach high school teachers about the philosophical and historical roots of the three social science disciplines of economics, sociology, and psychology. During the institute, participants read and discussed the primary works by the most important philosophers and writers of Western civilization. It was…

This document describes and analyzes a laboratory school connected with an experimental Masters in Elementary Education program. Five areas of instructional improvement are emphasized: diagnosis, individualization, integration of the disciplines, humanistic teacher-child relationships, and teaming. Instruction focuses on the language arts. The…