The problem of productivity and its impact on manufacturing engineering is the main focus of a program designed to develop a university-industry relationship that will provide professional training to students and input into the manufacturing industry. The current status of existing university-industry interaction at the foreign and domestic…

The final report on a program to encourage industry-university interaction in the materials processing industries presents the findings of various proposed activities, establishes some conclusions, and provides suggestions and recommendations for extending the task to the actual design and conduct of the project. The background in which the…

Presented is a three-part paper on a project to train teachers to work with severely behaviorally disordered (SBD) or autistic-like children. In the section on the state school system and needs, J. Heskett covers such topics as characteristics of the SBD child, local education agencies participation in the SBD project, and future expansion of SBD…

Presented are four papers on Project PACE (Parent Action in Childhood Education), a homebound early childhood program designed to demonstrate the value of early education for developmentally delayed children (birth to 6 years old). In the first paper (by J. Becker) an historical perspective of the project and a brief description of the community…

Computer technology has been used since 1972 in the Madison, Wisconsin, public schools to control the flow of information required to support individualized instruction. Madison's computer-managed instruction system, MICA (Managed Instruction with Computer Assistance), operates interactively within individualized instruction programs to provide…

The Comprehensive Vocational Education Program for Career Development (K-14) in Pinellas County was implemented in nine pilot schools in which the project's goals were designed to bring together already operating components of career education in the county. A concerted effort was made to identify and integrate effective elements of other programs…

The guide is designed for use by agricultural instructors, administrators, supervisors, school boards, and others who are involved in planning instructional programs for vocational agriculture/agribusiness education in high schools and adult education. Part 1 details information pertaining to the administrative aspects of program development,…

Developmental procedures, background information, alternatives, and results of four demonstration community education programs established by the Appalachian Adult Education Center are presented in the document. Community educational programs sponsored by the Appalachian Adult Education Center, its educational objectives, and a discussion of the…

Approximately 400 learning disabled (LD) junior high school students in eight schools were provided identification, diagnosis, and intervention services during 2 years of a program based on meeting students' needs for special help, mainstream success, and parental understanding. Program objectives included significant gains in language…

An interlibrary loan telephone loop system operated by the Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education libraries is briefly described. Chronological steps in establishing the loop are delineated, and early problems are identified. Expansion of the loop and special uses also are discussed. Conclusions about the operation and tips for others…

This paper argues that implementing recent federal and state mandates requiring the placement of special students in "the least restrictive educational alternative" necessitates the collection of baseline data on the existing organizational status of affected schools, the current level of teacher preparedness, and community receptivity toward the…

Nine foundations are the focus of this study of the educational activities of major philanthropic foundations. The foundations are: (1) Ford; (2) Grant; (3) Russell Sage; (4) Carnegie; (5) Danforth; (6) Kellogg; (7) Lilly; (8) Mott; and (9) Rockefeller. After a brief overview of foundation activities, general themes, appropriations and projects,…

This document is the second in a series of 12 early childhood program descriptions compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The program described here is the Behavior Analysis Model developed by Don Bushell at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The program, designed for children from preschool…

This document is the sixth in a series of 12 early childhood program descriptions compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The program described here is the Interdependent Learning Model located at the Institute for Developmental Studies at New York University in New York City. The Interdependent Learning Model…

Since 73% of the Navajo children entering school do not speak English well enough to complete a regular course of study, the academic curricula of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) reservation schools is concerned primarily with acquisition of English as a second language. Programs developed and implemented specifically for Navajo students are…