This manual (1) explains the nature and purpose of ESEA Title IV grants; (2) describes the types of programs that may receive grants--the inservice training of school personnel to deal with problems incident to desegregation, and the use of advisory specialists in school desegregation; and (3) outlines procedures for preparing a grant proposal.…

The purpose of the Single Skill Training Courses offered to teachers in the District of Columbia was to meet staff development needs by providing short, concentrated training modules covering a variety of topics within the areas of mainstreaming handicapped students, providing individualized instruction, and implementing a competency based…

Since many of the children attending Wesley School come from homes which have a low income base, it qualifies for federally funded compensatory services. The educational program at Wesley was unique in that the various compensatory programs in operation reflected the use of several diverse methodologies for improving pupil achievement. The total…

The purpose of the Improving Instruction through Supervision project was to provide a support system for teachers, based on a clinical supervision model. Teachers and administrators were trained in a supervision model which consists of a five step process: (1) pre-observation conference; (2) observation; (3) analysis and strategy; (4)…

This paper describes an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title IV program designed to improve the reading achievement levels of kindergarten through second-grade pupils in Wakulla County, Florida. The Multisensory Approach to Reading and Reading Readiness Curriculum (Project MARC) combined structured teaching techniques and materials with…

In an attempt to get the teacher's perspective on integration problems, the Title IV Elementary Secondary Education Act staff organized small problem-solving sessions, joining teachers from two elementary schools in groups of three to six with staff for half-day sessions. After an understanding of each school's situation was achieved, a select…

The Better Teaching--Better Writing program, as implemented in the School District of Webster Groves (MO), has four objectives: (1) by the completion of a 1979 Summer Writing Institute, the 19 participants would demonstrate increased knowledge about the literature and research in the teaching of writing, about teaching of writing approaches, and…

Gordon Elementary School had three supplementary programs during 1972-73 which were funded by federal, state, and local monies. Title IV-A is a federally funded program based on a "total family" approach to treating problems of the child and his education. Health, recreation, and physical fitness; remediation; family counseling; cultural…

The first section of this issue of the Bulletin has to do with public service employment, a poorly understood social policy which must be defined before it can be evaluated as an anti-poverty strategy. The term public service employment (PSE) refers to the policy of using government funds to create jobs which serve a dual purpose: that of (1)…

A cooperative statewide effort to evaluate individual Arts-in-Education projects and their cumulative impact upon Pennsylvania education is described. Eight Title IV Arts-in-Education projects in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are participating in the three year project. A coordinating center maintains communication, organizes data, and ensures…

Presented here is a collection of assessment and evaluation abstracts of local, State and Federal programs in the Clark County School District in Nevada. In the first section, the district-wide aptitude and achievement testing measures are described, and the results of testing are presented. Section two provides information on program evaluations…

Since materials are scarce, textbooks are incomplete, and teacher training is inadequate, teachers need ongoing assistance and training in integrating Asian American curriculum into their classrooms. A federally-funded project that is currently in its second year of operation in the St. Paul Public Schools is attempting to meet this need. The…

Presenting a formative evaluation of the 1976-77 Kodiak Island Borough School District Title IV Elementary Secondary Education Act Project involving 4 schools, 8 teachers, and 50 students in grades 9 and 10, this program evaluation addresses a model based on a philosophy of individualized and independent instruction employing self-paced and…

The description and evaluation of the ESEA Title IV desegregation workshops in this survey is the product of analysis of reports found in the ERIC system and in the document collections of the ERIC Information Retrieval Center on the Disadvantaged and the National Center for Research and Information on Equal Educational Opportunity. Of the more…

The evaluation data for this report on the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title IV Programs in New Jersey include published material, "fugitive" documents from the files of New Jersey Department of Education staff, statistical information compiled especially for this study, numerous interviews with members of the Department and…