Designed by the Monroe County Library System as a cooperative venture with Model Cities and the Adult Basic Education Department of the City School District of Rochester, New York, the project explored the feasibility of using socially oriented programs and area canvass by library aides to uncover communication needs and recruit enrolless for an…

The Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children (REPSAC) is a group educational program for "high risk" (of low birth weight and with various handicaps) Spanish American children. It aims to provide successful experiences for these children in both English and Spanish language learning and in improving cognitive and…

The aim of this paper is to delineate some of the central issues confronting psychologists and educators in the application of psychological theory and research to early childhood education. Three approaches to early childhood programming are presented: the behavioristic-learning theory perspective, the Piagetian cognitive-developmental, and the…

This study reports on the development of a professionally prepared and delivered mental health program addressed to the needs and interests of elementary principals in a California school district. The needs of the principals were identified at a series of meetings with the district's principals association in which 15 program goals were…

A three-phase project, funded under the Higher Education Act Title II-B, was initiated in 1971 to investigate and improve public library services to preschool children in North Carolina. The first goal of the project was to locate and describe existing services with a field survey covering 36 counties. Although the survey technique and…

A project was developed at Ohio State University to train people with media backgrounds for special qualifications related to inservice training for public education. The training program had three phases: research and script development for an audiovisual package of inservice training materials; production of the slides, audio tape recording, and…

The need at the community college level for the development of new styles or modes of education that are consistent with the uniqueness of the individual student and will help him realize his human potential is discussed. Such styles or modes are based upon an educational theory called confluent education. The Semester for Self-Directed Study is a…

Designed to give vocational education teachers actual experience in business and industry, this project involved the joint efforts of Eastern Washington State College and several government and private agencies. The project centered around 10 teachers selected from the various service areas of vocational education, who exchanged positions for 6…

Evaluating 566 opinionnaires of the 1,400 distributed to parents whose children had participated in programs at 1 of 2 resident outdoor education centers in northern Illinois--the Rockford Outdoor School and the Lorado Taft Field Campus--this study sought (1) to determine what parents perceive to be the values and outcomes of the resident outdoor…

This report reviews the Compton Bilingual Plan during its third year of operation at Thomas Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles. After a brief introduction giving background on the program, the second section describes in some detail major activity of 1971-72. This section includes a narrative report, a description of project…

The purpose of the symposium, cosponsored by the American Association of State Psychology Boards and Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, was to focus attention on interesting and innovative approaches to Continuing Education in psychology as a profession in various parts of the country. The participants were asked to focus on…

Modern organization theory and research from business and industry predicts that schools which change toward the Likert participative group organizations will increase productivity. This paper reports interventions of a one-year organization development program carried out with 12 schools and the change results measured by the Profile of a School.…

Descriptions of reading programs and services related to elementary reading instruction in 16 Washington, D.C. schools are included in this report. Data are reported for grade levels only and combines information for all schools. Basal readers are the most commonly used materials, with approaches used with these materials varying greatly across…

Early results from a Montessori nursery program initiated by Toronto, Canada, in 1971, to help inner-city children prepare for formal education indicate that the mothers of the 15 three- and four-year-old children were pleased with the program. Specifically, they felt that the children had increased their verbal skills, preparedness for junior…

The Borough of Havering in London, England undertook a project to devise and implement a computer aided learning program which involved teachers in the production of materials and provided students with a flexible, individualized system of instruction. Materials were developed, and three trials were conducted: (1) a program and equipment test; (2)…