Fresh Youth Initiative (FYI) is a youth development organization based in the Washington Heights-Inwood section of Manhattan. The group's mission is to support and encourage the efforts of neighborhood young people and their families to design and carry out community service and social action projects, develop leadership skills, fulfill their…

Fourteen appendixes to the fiscal year 1975 final evaluation report of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program are contained in this volume to provide supportive descriptive and technical information. Appendixes A to J relate to the Community Experiences for Career…

Detailed in a case study is the improvement in a 3-year-old severely language delayed child who participated in the Self-Controlled Interactive Learning Systems program, an early childhood program incorporating educational technology. Reviewed are the student's language and behavioral accomplishments resulting from exposure to the "talking…

This set of chronologies tells the stories of fourteen sites--thirteen public school districts and one community college--that participated in the 1974 field test of the School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS). The collection is intended to provide a resource for teachers, administrators, board members, and university…

This preliminary case study of inter-organizational dissemination arrangements presents a conceptual framework for conducting large-scale investigations of state dissemination activities and its application in the organization and analysis of information dealing with such arrangements in Wisconsin and Utah. When the findings of the Wisconsin case…

To understand better the role a principal plays in the success or failure of a federal program, this study was conducted of the role of principals in Teacher Corps projects. An introductory chapter discusses the changing role of the principal in general and the role of the principal in change efforts and then more specifically discusses the…

This case study documents reform policies and practices for handling juveniles, and the development of complete monitoring of child welfare and juvenile facilities. Due to the work of citizen and child advocacy groups, ways have been developed in Pennsylvania to determine whether state and federal laws regarding institutionalized children are…

This publication summarizes a lengthy two-volume report that describes a study of six technical assistance groups (TAGS) that provide extended face-to-face help to teachers, administrators, parents, and/or students involved in attempts to improve local schools. The six groups chosen for study include AFRAM Associates, the Center for New Schools,…

The literature on intervention theory tends to overlook the pragmatic managerial issues and challenges of intervening. This paper analyzes the formative period of a school management development program to establish crucial differences between the program director's espoused theory and the actual experience of the intervention. These differences…

This report describes the Tucson Early Education Psychological Services (TEEPS) program during its third year of operation. TEEPS is based on the position that the quality of psychological services in the public schools can be increased by establishing educational systems in which the functions of psychology in education are embodied in system…

Described are three manpower development programs for handicapped children selected as examplary because of program elements worthy of further study or replication. Presented in the form of case studies, each program is examined in terms of an introduction, program operations, notable features, people in the program, program evaluation,…

This report, one in a series of three, is designed for elementary and secondary school teachers of the urban/disadvantaged to familiarize them with the field of environmental education. Following a general orientation, specific problems and needs are identified and research related to these is noted. Current practices concerning environmental…

The purposes of this paper are at least threefold: (1) to identify and explain mediation as a process constituting a deliberate set of sequential acts and nonacts as an appropriate means for peaceful, impartial crisis resoluation of inter racial violence between/among students in secondary public schools; (2) to present mediation as a viable…

The author discusses the use of oral history in social studies classrooms K-12. The validity of oral history and problems to solve are examined; the Native American Oral History Project is described as an example of an oral history teaching technique. For journal availability see SO 504 433. (Author/RM)

Describes a global education program developed by an elementary school in Chicago and presents guidelines for implementing the program. Recommends that a global education program needs administrative support, an underlying theme, a good supply of resource and supplementary materials, and input from students of various ethnic backgrounds.…