Projects funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) are discussed, with the focus on individualized instruction projects. The locale of the projects varies from Texas to Chicago, New Jersey to California, Kentucky to Minnesota, and others. The topics of some of the projects are pre-school students, handicapped…

This program initiated by the Central Cities Educational Development Center was designed to offer experiences which lay the groundwork for intellectual development and school achievement to underprivileged children two to five years of age. The Center has assumed a somewhat different composition and focus in each of the four years of its…

The purpose of the Model Early Childhood Learning Program of Baltimore, Md., City Schools is to provide experiences for disadvantaged children which will constitute the prerequisite developmental history needed to undertake first grade concepts and skills. The project's stated objectives are: (1) to improve the measured aptitude or readiness for…

This curriculum guide for parent education teachers lists objectives, parent activities and resources for units on infants, toddlers and preschoolers. The unit on infants includes sections dealing with prenatal development and the birth process; appropriate expectations of growth and development; needs of new parents; basic needs of infants; and…

A Piagetian preschool emphasizes the child's active construction of mental images rather than passive association of words and pictures with real objects. The role of the teacher is neither to dictate good behavior nor to transmit ready-made predigested knowledge. Her role is to help the child to control his own behavior and to find things out as…

This is an individually administered test designed as an aid in placing Kindergarten children in an appropriate developmental curriculum sequence, and in determining at what level to begin instruction. The test covers motor development, auditory perception, visual perception, and language development. Test materials consist of an administrator's…

This document presents two measures used by the Parent-Child Early Education Program of the Ferguson-Florrisant School District in Missouri for identifying preschool children with special behavior problems. The first measure, My Preschool Child, is a checklist to be filled out by the parent on the child's personal and social development, language…

This document presents the evaluation design and findings of the second year of operation of the Experimental Bicultural Early Childhood Program, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title III project operating in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The major objectives of the program were: (1) to facilitate the development of school readiness…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE PRELIMINARY STAGES AND ACTUAL OPERATION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) PROJECT IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, FUNDED UNDER TITLE III OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. HIGH-SCHOOL-AGE NYC BOYS THOROUGHLY RECONDITIONED FIVE DETERIORATED HOMES IN A RELATIVELY NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. NYC GIRLS FURNISHED THE FIRST…

This report examines the impact of the Saturday School (a school and home learning program for 4-year-olds in a large suburban school district) on the following four groups: (1) students with learning disabilities, (2) students identified as either "mentally retarded" or of "low intellectual functioning", (3) students with…

The Impact of a Preschool Interracial Program (IPSIP) project, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was designed to test the hypothesis that intervening with sufficient impact in the early lives of environmentally deprived children will produce a significant, lasting effect on their cognitive and social…

Project Genesis is a preventative program which tries to identify potential learning deviancies before children enter kindergarten, and which provides individualized programming to offset future learning problems. Clinics held in the spring test each child entering kindergarten the following fall on perceptual-motor abilities, hearing, speech,…

Innovative federal legislation for the handicapped is reviewed, and supplementary guidelines for Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, designed to aid the handicapped, are listed. Four Title III programs are described which benefit the preschool deaf, severely physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and trainable mentally…

This manual describes an early childhood education program for 200 children, ages 4 and 5, based on community needs and designed to prepare children for entry into a non-graded elementary instructional program. Following an overview of the program and a rationale for preschool education, various aspects of the preschool operations are reviewed,…

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE ENTIRE APPLICATION FOR A FEDERAL GRANT UNDER THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, TITLE III, TO FINANCE THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF A SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL CENTER. THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS DIRECTED TOWARD PROVIDING INDIVIDUAL ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND ADULTS IN A RURAL…