"The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation: Early Findings on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program--A Report to Congress" presents the first findings from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), the legislatively mandated national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and…

Kansas State University designed a 20-month faculty development program with the goal of fostering broad, institution-wide adoption of teaching practices that focus on brain-based learning. Components of the program included annual teaching and learning workshops, reading and discussion groups based on content of a book about how the brain learns…

This implementation research report describes the local programs, home visiting staff, and families who participated in the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a national evaluation of the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program launched in 2011. This national evaluation is…

This article describes a school-university partnership that focuses on the development of classroom management skills for preservice teachers in an urban setting, through collaboration between mentors, principals, and a university supervisor. To prepare preservice teachers for the unique challenges of urban schools, three key elements were…

This plan for school food service in Kansas is intended to serve as a guide for the development and success of efficient nutritional programs at the local level. The topics covered include statistical facts of organization and funding of school food services; objectives for fiscal year 1980; descriptions of the various food service programs;…

Aurora, a village of 147 residents in north central Kansas, was the focus of a 1978 investigation of the community development potential for Kansas rural villages. Students and staff from the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare worked with community residents to identify three programs the village wanted (a recreation program, a…

A product of the Kansas Planning and Community Development (CD) Division within the Kansas Department of Economic Division, the Kansas CD Assistance Pilot Project was created to meet the more technical needs of small and principally rural communities (up to 20,000 in population). Funded from July 1, 1974 through October 31, 1975, the Project…

The final report, covering the time period from January 1, 1971 to June 30, 1973, summarizes an exemplary program to introduce career education into three Kansas project sites: Kansas City, Clay Center, and Lawrence, which are representative of the schools in the State. Individual reports from the project sites and from the cooperating State…

This paper examines the use of telecommunications in rural schools in the United States as a solution to the problems teachers face when they have small classes, five or six class preparations daily, extracurricular duties, and inadequate training for specific classes. Telecommunications in schools in Minnesota and Kansas and a Star Schools Model…

Inservice bilingual education is one of many ways that can be used to help educational institutions make changes necessary to meet the educational needs of the linguistically and culturally diverse students, as well as to bring about an overall enrichment in educational systems throughout the nation. This report describes the sequence of…

In 1996, Kansas launched the nation's most sweeping attempt to radically transform the child welfare system by implementing a privatized form of managed care. Four years later, the child welfare system shows signs of instability and seems very much in transition. This report examines the current status of the child welfare system in Kansas and…

The major focus of this report is on the Kansas State Department of Education's (KSDE) plan for the expenditure of Title I funds in Kansas. Specific information provided includes: (1) an overview of Title I administration; (2) Federal, State, and local school district reponsibilities for Title I; (3) KSDE's monitoring and enforcement plan; (4) a…

The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…

This document is arranged in three parts. Part I reviews the local educational agencies' (LEA's) Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs for fiscal year 1975. This review includes the following sections: program achievements in reading and mathematics for the regular term and for the summer term, statistical overview of Title I…

This second annual evaluation of three federally funded integrated model vocational education programs in the elementary and secondary grades presents program descriptions, evaluations, and recommendations separately for each comprehensive program. Selected as representative of rural, rural-urban, and urban settings in Kansas for use in similar…