Runaways have become a concern to Congress, law enforcement agencies, courts, and parents. Since running away is a juvenile offense, it has serious legal consequences for the young people involved. This publication describes one community's successful effort to divert runaways from the juvenile justice system and to strengthen services to troubled…

After three years of study, planning and preparation, Ottawa University instituted a new program of education in the Fall of 1970. The essential focus is upon the undergraduate and the learning process via an integrative interdisciplinary basic program which extends beyond the usual classroom limitations. The program is humanistically oriented and…

This document describes the purposes and functions of Project P.L.A.N. (Preschool Learning Adjustment Needs). It is a prevention oriented program, designed to detect existing and potential barriers to learning in young children before they enter school so that individualized developmental programs can be designed and implemented early in their…

This report provides information from a survey of Minnesota postsecondary educational institutions relating to interinstitutional cooperative activities and programs. Minnesota cooperative programs are identified as voluntary activities of postsecondary institutions to provide additional, more qualitative, or more economical educational…

This document is testimony presented before the Governor's Ad Hoc Commission on Operations, Revenues, and Expenditures at the Hawaii State Capitol, October 1973 designed to describe various facets of the University of Hawaii. Emphasis is placed on a brief descriptive history; University development; educational policy in the areas of access,…

This report describes the inservice component of a project designed to enable 16 secondary English teachers to increase their understandings and develop their competencies in teaching disadvantaged, low achieving students. Included are descriptions of the resource materials used, curriculums which were studied, a sample unit which was developed, a…

A course in computer programing is being developed as a vehicle for research in tutorial modes of computer-assisted instruction. Methods for monitoring and aiding the student as he works on interesting programing problems are employed. The problems are individually selected via an optimization scheme based on a model of the student's ability and…

This prototype instructional materials catalog is a source of information about curriculum and program developments, materials, instructional and training models, and other resources for use in educational research, development, diffusion, and evaluation (RDD&E) training. Section I describes products which, for the most part, have been developed…

As established within the framework of the UNISIST world science information system, the International Serials Data System (ISDS) is an international network of operational national and regional centers, jointly responsible for the creation and maintenance of computer based data banks, which contain essential information for the identification of…

The aim of the Kendall College Human Potential Seminar (KCHPS) is to provide a structure within which persons can generate and share extensive positive information about themselves. It also creates greater participant awareness of, and respect for, human potential--their own as well as that of others. This paper consists of guidelines and…

The selected bibliography of programs for trainable mentally handicapped children contains approximately 50 abstracts and associated indexing information drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of November, 1973. Abstracts are chosen using the criteria of…

Proposed is a program to encourage 100 gifted secondary students in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to initiate and carry out educational projects on an individual basis, to be funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. Provided are statistical data on the general project, budget, pupil population, program staff, (more than 200…

The successful use of optical scanning at the University of the Pacific (UOP) indicates that such techniques can simplify a number of administrative data processing tasks. Optical scanning is regularly used at UOP to assist with data processing in the areas of admissions, registration and grade reporting and also has applications for other tasks…

A review of the operations of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), the producer of Sesame Street and The Electric Company, is presented. The objective is to illustrate the organizational principles which CTW used to provide leadership, develop functional relationships among the various segments of a large-scale enterprise, and to harness…

A Primary Author's Language (PAL-X) has been developed to serve as a documentation language for computer-assisted instructional (CAI) programs. Its development was necessary to permit the dissemination of CAI given the facts that: 1)existing CAI programs were written in over 60 languages; 2)the system for COURSEWRITER II, the most commonly used…