Wilson Riles, the state superintendent of public instruction in California, has developed the revolutionary Early Childhood Education (ECE) program, which provides for improvement and restructuring from kindergarten through grade 12. Discusses this program with the superintendent in a recent interview that covered many other elements of his early…

Since Allan Nevins inaugurated the first systematic program of oral history in the United States at Columbia University in 1948, a large number of such projects have been conducted by universities, associations and corporations. Part I of this paper presents the question of whether oral history is credible historical evidence. The rules of…

Fourteen appendices are gathered in this companion volume to a report summarizing the second year of a 3-year evaluation project focusing on three Utah programs funded under Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The appendices all relate to one of the three programs, Title IV-Part C (IV-C), which allocates funds for the adoption…

This document is divided into three main parts. The first part includes the introduction, history, objectives and rational for the Model Training Project (MTP); part two deals with the individual consortium responses to the questionnaire developed for this report; and the final section contains the summary and conclusions derived from the previous…