Describes a collaborative effort between one school district of the Boston (MA) Public Schools and two Boston higher education institutions to create an innovative program of public early childhood education for 55 three-, four-, and five-year olds. The program attempts to improve educational services, teacher training and research opportunities.…

The Los Angeles Community College District's Core Curriculum Development Laboratory (CCDL), a task force of faculty members and resource staff, was established to identify successful teaching practices and programs within the district, sponsor curricular projects, assist in designing new instructional models, and make recommendations to promote…

Activities undertaken in four program divisions and in governance and administration within the University of Mid-America are reviewed in this progress report. The four divisions are research and evaluation, academic planning, course design and production, and marketing. In each section the program actions taken are enumerated, along with the…

In a brief chapter treating of the progress and status of education in the cities of the country it is impossible to treat all of the phases of modern city school systems with their regular day schools, night schools, continuation schools, special schools, clinics, etc. Some of these phases are discussed in other chapters of the "Biennial Survey…