The Youth Villages Transitional Living program is intended to help youth who were formerly in foster care or juvenile justice custody, or who are otherwise unprepared for adult life, to make the transition to independent living. Youth Villages, which serves emotionally and behaviorally troubled young people, operates a number of programs in…

Understanding the context of the demand for special education (SE) teacher education (TE) faculty is important because it can provide faculty at doctoral-granting universities with useful information for program planning. Knowing more about SE teacher preparation programs currently in place and program revisions being planned allows doctoral…

Reports a program in which in-service training in rational-behavioral group counseling was delivered to "front-line" Bureau of Prisons staff by institution psychologists and consultants from the local community. Training focused on conducting time-limited, structured groups. (Author)

This lengthy report evaluates a new staffing plan that was implemented by the Eugene (Oregon) School District during the 1975-76 school year. The purpose of the report is to determine the impact of the new staffing plan on the staff size and programs of each district school. The first section of the report presents a brief history of the new…

A questionnaire was mailed to 341 colleges and universities granting graduate degrees in reading to obtain information about the function and operation of their reading clinics. The concerns addressed include the function of the clinic, the type of clients served, the type of staff employed, the kinds of services offered, and the kind of funding…

An Individualized Instructional Systems Program is a proqram that enables students to: (1) have available in writing the behavioral objectives they try to attain; (2) progress at their own individual rate while completing the required tasks, activities, and objectives of the course; (3) spend as much time as needed to complete the objectives of…

This report evaluates a three-year-demonstration program in child advocacy, created as part of existing Head Start Parent-Child Centers to meet the needs of children under 5 and their families. Local services were integrated and new services created in a variety of areas (health, housing, education and welfare) using a primarily paraprofessional…

Written in compliance with Federal requirements, this Idaho State Evaluation Report describes the progress of Idaho's migrant educational activities implemented under Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended in 1966 under Public Law 89-750. The report is a summary of the 28 local district project evaluations. Enrollee…

Presented are findings of a study on the utilization of paraprofessionals in public school programs for handicapped children; and provided are descriptions of four program models for training paraprofessionals working with handicapped children. Results are reported for the following areas: number of states and territories responding, number of…

A comprehensive assessment of Right to Read programs in Illinois is provided in this final report. The chapter headed "Purposes of the Report" includes a description of the development of evaluation rationale and design, presentation of findings and products, and format for provision of conclusions, implications, and recommendations.…

Program statistics, coordination with other federal programs, community and parent involvement, and descriptive evaluations of corrective reading, corrective math, the Broyhill Home for Children, staff development, and parent involvement are provided in this evaluation of North Carolina's Haywood County Schools. A section on the effects of Title I…

The overall purpose of the study was to examine differentiated staffing practices and to explore their potential for Alberta schools. The study had four major phases. The first was to review the literature on differentiated staffing to determine rationales for it, alternative definitions and conceptualizations, recommended practices, expected…

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 report discusses the background study, and proposed objectives, mode of operation personnel training, staff, assessment, and facilities of a Head Start relocation service for migrant families. Included is a description of the establishment of such a relocation service which provided followup social services activities from one state to…

The Joint University Libraries (JUL) of Nashville, Tennessee have found that as they become increasingly complex they must make optimum use of their resources. In 1972, JUL initiated a planning effort, called Comprehensive Organizational/Operational Planning (CO/OP), designed to provide information for intelligent management decisions. Policy…