Seventy projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this document about Iowa Title III exemplary programs. Projects are subdivided according to planning grants, operational grants, guidance projects, and special programs and projects. They encompass the areas of career education, computer assisted instruction, computer managed instruction, curriculum development, educationally disadvantaged, environmental education, gifted and talented, individualized instruction, inservice training, interdisciplinary studies, learning disabilities, media, minicourses, needs assessment, preschool reading, and special education. (AM)