A description of the focus and objectives of Project B.E.A.M. ("Behavioral Evolvement Through Achievement Management"), which utilized a combination of structured academic success through intensive tutoring and weekly counseling or "rap" sessions, using inexperienced college students from the same racial group as the children taught. Dramatic…

A description of college student interaction in interracial classroom situations involving students froma predominantly black college (District of Columbia Teachers College) and a predominantly white university (The American University). During a four year period, six classes, meeting twice each term, participated. An analysis of the interaction…

Reports on the results of an experiment in student-centered learning. The students showed evidence of learning but future efforts in this area should concentrate on the clear explication of objectives as well as the faculty facilitator's role. (Editor)

Some predictions about credentialism, types and motives of students, technology, and the learner as producer in nontraditional education. (Editor/PG)

Teacher-training programs in elementary reading and career education are being beamed via satellite to Appalachian teachers in a communications experiment. (Author)

This document discusses and critically reviews problems existing with utilizing traditional experimental methods in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Experimental and correlational data collection methods are reviewed and a new data collection method merging the more productive features of each is proposed. The philosophy, strategy, and…

Schools face frightening challenges in the decades ahead, and a fundamental question of education is how they will cope. Organization Development (OD), a process designed to help organizations meet the challenges of pervasive change, appears capable of helping in this situation. There have been several OD applications in schools, but no definitive…

The article offers a brief history of past income-maintenance programs summarizes a unique income-maintenance experiment, describes present welfare programs, and lists the unanswered questions in welfare reform. (Income maintenance for intact families at levels employed in the study would not have large effects on labor supply, concluded…

Analytical view of a major interdisciplinary experimental program. (Editor)

A metric education project is described and evaluated. The project attempted to integrate a variety of components including grade objectives and activities, teacher training, and public relations. The report describes the model school and the target population, lists the metric education goals, and describes the project events and procedures.…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO FIND THE BEST MEANS FOR FACILITATING THE ADJUSTMENT OF INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION DIFFERENCES IN CULTURE, VALUE SYSTEMS, LANGUAGE, MOTIVATIONS, AND BEHAVIOR. A BASIC STATEMENT OF DEFINITION AND EXPLANATION OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES WAS PREPARED FOR TEACHER USE…