Project VIII is an innovative behavioral science oriented educational program, funded under Title VIII Elementary Secondary Education Act, designed to attack the personal, social, and educational problems of children whose previous record of school failure and frustration has indicated high dropout potential. The program is operated as a consortium involving the Paducah Public Schools, Louisville Public Schools, Murray State University, and the University of Louisville. Project VIII contains three major components and a management system: (1) a classroom intensive unit program providing highly specialized learning processes plus motivation and personal adjustment activities; (2) two project staff members providing extensive training for regular classroom teachers of the target area schools in Paducah and Louisville in order to modify their behaviors toward creating a more positive classroom atmosphere; and, (3) a home-school program involving the parents in many school activities. Four home-school coordinators and two assistants work full time to help parents understand their children's behavior and to help in the development of better parent-child relationships. [Due to the quality of the original, parts of this document will not be sharply legible when reproduced.] (Author/JM)