Presented in this report is a summary evaluation of the Tri-District Cooperative Development of Land Laboratories For Conservation and Outdoor Education project. School districts participating in the project include Worthington, Grandview Heights, and Westerville, Ohio. Part I of the three-part report evaluates the overall efforts of the three…

Persons from the field of science education and persons who had extensive experience working with visually handicapped children were brought together to establish some baselines and beginning ideas of approaches to the evaluation of a laboratory - centered science program (Science Curriculum Improvement Study) as it is being used with visually…

The experiences of the Malheur County, Oregon, cooperative, multi-district career education project, funded under Title Three of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, formed the basis for the development of the guide. Two assumptions are basic to the establishment of a career-oriented, multi-district program: (1) that such a curriculum will…

This report briefly describes Philadelphia's Joint Public Parochial Planning Councils (JPC) project and presents an evaluation of the project's impact during the 1975-76 school year. The JPC project is intended to provide sustained interaction between the Philadelphia School District and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. During 1975-76, 102 joint…

Educational planners face a difficult task of providing quality education to large masses of urban students in the face of decreased revenues, soaring costs, shifting populations, and changing educational programs. Project Simu-School is intended to provide an action-oriented organizational and functional framework necessary for tackling the…

Evaluated was the 3-year (1969-1972) Title III 3R (reeducation, reality, responsibility) intervention program serving over 600 emotionally disturbed elementary level students from four towns (in Connecticut) in a special unit and regular classes. A systems approach used throughout the project analyzed inputs, processes, and effectiveness of the…

This application for continuation grant seeks $178,827 under Title III, E.S.E.A. to continue the implementation of such Phase II goals as the identification, assessment, and further development of the potential of culturally handicapped children, the development of a productive community and classroom rapport, the development of an effective…

Described is the Program in Early Childhood Development (PECD), a school-community project initially funded under Title III to provide identification, diagnostic, and intervention services for 3-to 5-year-old children in Evanston, Illinois prior to kindergarten entry. Two major sections deal with screening procedures (in such areas as…

This document compiles the addresses presented at the 1st Annual Staff Development Workshop sponsored by the Western North Carolina Consortium. Presentations include: (l) "Staff Development--Why?" by Louis W. Bender; (2) "Staff Development--The State of the Art" by W. Robert Sullins; (3) "State Resources" by Hazel…

The "Instructional Materials Center" project was designed to set up a process by which children with learning disabilities would be aided in both affective and cognitive domains. The project has been successful despite the fact that some of the exploratory objectives in the process domain have not been met. It has greatly aided the…

OUTLINED IN THIS REPORT ARE PLANS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE DECEMBER 1967 CONGRESSIONAL REQUIREMENT THAT 75 PERCENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, TITLE III FUNDS BE ADMINISTERED BY THE STATES. TITLE III AUTHORIZES FEDERAL FUNDING OF SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL CENTERS AND OTHER INNOVATIVE PROJECTS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION. SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED…

This report describes and evaluates The World Is Your Museum Program -- its objectives and information from an Interim Evaluation Report -- and provides other evaluative information from teachers, students, and the project director. The program involved 300 students from eight public and two non-public elementary (K-5) art classes in Washington,…

Phase I involved 5 weeks of entry level employment for academic teachers in selected establishments in order to acquaint them with an occupational field. They did the regular work of these positions for 6 hours each work day and then spent 2 hours interviewing other personnel to collect significant occupational information. Phase II involved 3…

This document reports a conference, attended by representatives from the 50 states, which attempted to ease the way for the transition of the administrative authority for the PACE program (Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, Projects to Advance Creativity in Education) from the direct control of the U.S. Office of Education to the…