A New York City program offering clinical and guidance services to parochial school children is discussed in this evaluation of an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I project. The program was operated by the Board of Education and was to offer services comparable to those in the public schools. Based on data gathered by…

Evaluated is the first year of operation of a program of educational bus trips to provide enrichment of New York City children in parochial elementary schools. Funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I, the project used buses provided by the Board of Education. Appraisal of the program was based on interviews with the…

To provide participants with intensive training in programed instruction, to make them more knowledgeable consumers of programed instruction materials, and to develop programming skills on a professional level so that they could apply the systems approach in development of instructional materials, two training institutes were initiated. A total of…

Brief descriptions of 7 programs specifically designed to alleviate programs were considered exemplary innovative activities, as defined by the U. S. Office of Education in the migrant evaluation format, and had not been previously tried within the State of Wisconsin. General program effectiveness (statewide) is described, including cooperative…

The Iowa Research Coordinating Unit is located in the State Department of Public Instruction and is responsible through the Director, Vocational Education Branch, to the Associate Superintendent, Vocational Education Branch. The unit initiates activity to stimulate, encourage, and coordinate statewide research on employment opportunities, human…

Research was conducted to evaluate the effects of the College Discovery Program (a program designed to facilitate higher education for underachieving, financially impoverished high school graduates) on the 1965 class. The report deals with the problem of attrition from the program and the probable effects of the college experience on students. The…

This is the final report of the Reading Research Utilization Project (RUP) which was funded by the U.S. Office of Education from July, 1971 to June, 1973. The purpose of the RUP was to encourage the translation of research, particularly reading research, into practice in 16 target elementary schools in Washington, D.C. RUP was a school information…

A two-week institute, funded under Title II-B of the Higher Education Act, focused on the process of communication as the vital interface with all aspects of the school library supervisor's role. "School library supervisor" was intended to include any school librarian with supervisory or management responsibility beyond the single…

Discussed is the history, organization, and value of team teaching with retarded children; and provided is a program description of team teaching during 1969 at one center which involved 22 children from 6 to 12 years of age. Team teaching is seen to provide for varying student needs by teachers of varying abilities. Definitions of team teaching…

An educational program based upon information processing theory has been developed at Southern Illinois University. The integrating theme was the development of conceptual ability for coping with social and personal problems. It utilized student information search and concept formation as foundations for discussion and judgment and was organized…

The students taking part in the training workshop (arranged by the Kentucky Public Service Careers Program and the Kentucky Department of Corrections) came from a variety of backgrounds and were all educationally and socially disadvantaged, but were intelligent and rated high in self-knowledge, social awareness and knowledge of human behavior.…

This report describes a pilot program set up to test the feasibility of a student out-of-school tutoring service for 4th and 5th graders as a means of providing remedial instruction for potential dropouts. For testing purposes, a small-scale 5-session program was set up, using as tutors 9th through 12th grade volunteer students, from a local…

Described and evaluated is a Marion County, Florida, program which applied the team teaching method to instruction of 45 educable mentally retarded 10- to 14-year-old students. It is stressed that the philosophy of the middle schools and of team teaching is to provide a means of meeting individual needs of students. Described are the program's…

Presented is the final report of the 3 year reading curriculum development project (funded under Title VI) for 40 educable mentally handicapped children in Wakulla County, Florida, which centered on the development of computer assisted (CAI) instructional materials in a programed format. Described for the first year of the program is formative…

This booklet contains a graphic presentation of the goals, plans, and accomplishments of the personnel of the Fort Worth public schools as of 1970. It is an evaluation and an inventory of the efforts of the personnel in all divisions and at all levels of responsibility. The report describes the accomplishments of project 1981 objectives and sets…