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Direct linkWeaver, Barbara – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
What should a campus do when it needs more learning spaces but can't construct new buildings? Dr. Benjamin Sill's first task when he became the director of Clemson University's general engineering program was to find space for classrooms and for the advising program. His search ended in the old YMCA building (Holtzendorff Hall), where space was…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Building Conversion, Facility Improvement, Space Utilization
Establish and Maintain a Child Service Demonstration Center for Children with Learning Disabilities.
Martin, Eugene F. – 1976
A program of an educational center providing training for graduate students in the areas of special education, educational psychology, elementary and secondary education, and guidance education is described. Practicum experiences in the diagnostic and remedial programming of learning disabled children are offered. The unique aspects of the program…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Diagnostic Teaching, Graduate Students, Handicapped Students
Download full textJoliet Junior Coll., IL. – 1991
The Dislocated Worker Assistance Center (DWAC) at Joliet Junior College (Illinois) is a comprehensive employment and training program for individuals with established work records who have lost their jobs because of layoff, plant closure, or changes in technology in the workplace. The DWAC was elected to serve as the National Demonstration Center…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Demonstration Centers, Dislocated Workers
Ybarra, Lea – Understanding Our Gifted, 2004
In this article, the author discusses how Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) seeks and nurtures students with high academic talents in Baltimore. The mission of CTY, since its founding in 1979, has been to identify students with high academic abilities and to provide challenging and innovative programs that are appropriate…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Talent Development, Academic Ability
Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
This bulletin is about an invasion that was welcomed. It tells how boys and girls of Petersburg, West Virginia, invaded their town to learn and to serve. Hotels, school lunchroom, alleys, creeks and swamps, unused park area, and other resources were utilized. The young invaders were welcomed by the adult citizens of the town because the principal…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Health Education, Public Health, Adolescents
Milwaukee Public Schools, WI. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1982
The Milwaukee Project is an attempt to provide science teachers at all grade levels with the background and support they need to involve handicapped students in a regular science class. Goals of the project include the improvement of preservice and inservice teacher training to prepare teachers to include the handicapped child in the mainstream…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary School Science
Curtin, Constance; Shinall, Stanley – IDEAL, 1987
Results of two studies of microcomputer use for second language instruction at the secondary level are reported. The investigation is based on observations made at the University of Illinois' University High School, which serves academically talented students from the surrounding area. The school's computer laboratory uses software packages for…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Design
Boldrey, Tom; And Others – 1975
The publication was developed to provide cursory information about the people, places, and things essential to career and vocational education that may be seen at the Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Demonstration Center (CIOEDC) in Joliet, Illinois. The CIOEDC was designed to demonstrate several K-14 career and vocational education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Conferences, Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1967
Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA Title II) provides direct federal assistance for the acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials. It is a state plan program: the state plan is the contract/agreement which the U.S. Office of Education negotiates with a state or eligible…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demonstration Centers
Hoke, Gordon; Osburn, Fred – Network: IPELD Journal of Education Ideas, 1968
Begun successfully in 1963 as part of the larger Illinois Plan for the Education of Gifted Children, the demonstration center in "Anytown", a small northwestern Illinois community, was phased out after four years of operation. New curricula for grades 7-12 were developed at the University of Illinois for the Anytown and other similar…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Wayne, Gayle – 1980
The Demonstration Programs in Reading and Mathematics were initiated in California in an effort to improve the reading and mathematics performance of secondary school students from neighborhoods characterized by high poverty levels, transiency, and low test scores. The programs have operated in California schools for the past 11 years. Each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Centers, Economically Disadvantaged
Studebaker, J. W.; Williams, Chester S. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1939
Plans and programs come in response to need. Citizens of our democracy have need of greater opportunities for truth-seeking under competent guidance. The people are hungry for increased understanding of the problems which beset them and their communities. They have a right to expect their institutions of education to give them help in their study…
Descriptors: Educational History, Guides, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
