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Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1970
Described as one of 34 booklets in a series of promising programs on childhood education, the report presents information on the Boston Public Schools Learning Laboratories (Massachusetts). The special approach for slow learners and gifted students in grades two through four is discussed in terms of purpose and structure, population served,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted
Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Newport Beach, CA. – 1975
Project Catch-Up, an ESEA Title I program, operates in Newport Beach and in Costa Mesa, California. It is said to be designed to provide remedial instruction in reading and arithmetic to underachieving children, kindergarten through sixth grade, in schools serving low socioeconomic level suburban areas. Among its key features are the following:…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Federal Programs
Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Newport Beach, CA.
Project Catch-Up is an ESEA Title I reading and math laboratory project for kindergarten through sixth-grade students, operating in Southern California's Newport-Mesa Unified School District. Its philosophy is that students having difficulty in reading and math can catch up with other students. Teachers take responsibility for the achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Criteria, Demonstration Programs, Educational Philosophy
Fotos, Joseph P. – 1976
A team led by the author developed and implemented a model program to aid the learning disabled (LD) child in a small school district remote from an intermediate service unit. The program's aims were to help the LD child achieve grade level more readily in the basic skills; to assist him in achieving a higher opinion of himself, his peers, his…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Gibbons, Michael – 1991
The Mathematics Improvement Component (MIC) was first implemented in the Columbus (Ohio) Public Schools in 1987-88 to assist elementary and middle school pupils who were low achievers in mathematics. Three programs comprised the 1989-90 MIC: the Elementary Computer Assisted Instruction (Elem-CAI) Program, the Elementary Competency Based Education…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Demonstration Programs, Educational Facilities
West Virginia Coll. of Graduate Studies, Institute. – 1978
Through support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, a model for providing graduate programs to full-time employed adults residing in remote locations of southern West Virginia was designed by the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies, a college that does not have a campus. The essence of the delivery model was to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Autoinstructional Aids, Cost Effectiveness, Course Evaluation
