This report of PROBE (Planning Resource Opportunities for Better Education) summarizes and evaluates activities from the time the project began its operation in March, 1967, through May 1968. Major objectives are: 1) to involve teachers in the enrichment of their curriculum programs; 2) to bring together the faculties in colleges and school…

In a built environment program, parts of the community are brought right into the classroom for detailed study, and all activities are related to the specific characteristics of the local environment. A built environment project for primary schools in British Columbia is described and evaluated. (RM)

The Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE) program, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, tries to find a way of working with students in grades 5-9 that will get them vitally interested and involved in learning, that will develop in them genuine specific skills for continued learning, and that will…

Project Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE), launched in December 1969, funded under Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, uses such cooperative strategies as the Jobs-Alike Work Conference, The Design for Materials Sharing, and The Inter-City Program Transplant. The program goals of the Memphis component were to…

This document is an assessment of the effectiveness of the Policy/School Liaison Program (PSLP), which began in 1982. PSLP offered 11th and 12th graders a one-semester, law-related education course. The 1985-86 PSLP was designed to expand the program and to develop materials necessary to expedite program institutionalization. A curriculum manual…

An aid for planning outdoor education for elementary and high school students in the Freeport Public Schools, Freeport, Illinois, this guide is designed to help teachers expand the existing curriculum by integrating outdoor activities in all areas of study. Activities for grades K-6 are organized by location (school ground, neighborhood,…

This publication, part of supplementary materials for a National Council for the Social Studies Conference paper described in SO 003 075, characterizes and offers evaluations on the Wingspread Project. A number of school exchange programs for varying age groups of suburban and urban young people from diverse backgrounds emphasizes a sense of…