This descriptive study of the twenty regional Education Service Centers in Texas is an exploratory analysis of programs and services that promote school improvement. Data collected from each service center website enabled the researcher to determine which programs and services are available to school districts and also allowed the researcher to…

The Educational Services Office (ESO) of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) sought an organizational strategy that would improve its ability to meet client demand without sacrificing the integrity of its programs or the fulfillment of its institutional responsibilities. Three alternative organizational strategies were identified:…

An education service center providing inservice programs to constituent school districts acted upon a recommendation that an independent evaluation component be added to their center for the purpose of improving their programs. This report of the first-year experience with the evaluation component is divided into four sections. The first section…

This document summarizes, analyzes, and reflects upon the activities of the Southeastern Regional Center for the Improvement of Elementary School Social Studies established at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. There are five major parts to the report. Part I contains a narrative summary of regional center activity from 1969 to…

Educational development centers were established to identify needs and behavior patterns of exceptional and migrant children and to initiate procedures which would reduce educational and cultural deprivation. Activities included seven special instructional, vocational, leisure time, and media programs. Also provided were four pupil personnel…

An analysis of staff development practices in Texas during the year 1975-76 is provided, and four principles of effective inservice education (planning, situational design, content, and support) are outlined. The summary of findings is based on data from three unpublished dissertations, which had compiled data gathered via questionnaire from…

Describes a three-year project (1985-88) which established a training center for peer counseling that serves three school districts. An evaluation of the citywide project is reported, and the limitations of centralized training are discussed, along with speculations about expanding services and populations. (TE)

This report details and evaluates the third year of the Mid-Atlantic Multifunctional Resource Center, a program providing training and technical assistance to educators and parents of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in an area including Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and…

This report includes several contributions concerned with the PACE program of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title III. One editorial reviews five previous studies of PACE and another is devoted to the need for "process evaluation" of Title III projects. Also included are descriptions of three PACE projects, in Los Angeles,…

Extensive planning in relation to the establishment of an outdoor education center in the State of Florida is reported. The proposed outdoor education center, designed to enrich the public school program if instruction in such fields as conservation, recreation, and resource-use, is outlined. The report contains an account of socioeconomic…

The experimental Contact Teacher Centre at Winton State Primary School was established in March 1983 to expand the avenues of service delivery for 20 isolated Queensland primary school children from 14 families living within an 80 kilometer radius of Winton. The aims of the Centre were to: (1) assist correspondence pupils with their work; (2)…

The Asian Regional Seminar on Polyvalent Adult Education Centers, held during September, 1971 in Bombay, was attended by individuals representing United Nations agencies, Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Phillippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand. Seminar objectives included…

This report summarizes the accomplishments of the 3-and-a-half year implementation of the Mid-Atlantic Multifunctional Resource Center (MRC), a program that provided training and technical assistance to educators and parents of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio,…

Ten of the twenty Education Service Centers (ESC) that provide instructional and technical services to the local school districts in Texas were asked to participate in a project designed to demonstrate infusion and management techniques in career education. Activities were accomplished under the following objectives: (1) establish the…

Description and evaluation of services offered by the Career Center at Imperial Valley College, a community college located in southeastern California, is reported in this document. (The college serves a large percentage of disadvantaged students, predominantly Mexican-American.) The evaluation report includes discussion of the following areas:…