Volume 15 of the 19-volume Highway Safety Program Manual (which provides guidance to State and local governments on preferred highway safety practices) focuses on police traffic services. The purpose and objectives of a police services program are described. Federal authority in the areas of highway safety and policies regarding a police traffic…

The publication is a final report on a vocational rehabilitation services project which attempted to reveal the values to be achieved by close association of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Department of Welfare in the areas of demonstration, service, and staff training in order to better serve clients of the Department of…

Presented is the final report of the California State Department of Education on the involvement of 929 gifted children (grades 1-12) in 17 experimental educational programs during the 1958-59 school year. The experimental programs evaluated are divided into three categories: special groupings, acceleration, and enrichment in the regular class. A…

A 2-week institute trained 30 public school personnel, all involved with the Illinois gifted program, as evaluators. An evaluation design, materials, and instruments were developed; the workshop evolved from evaluation planning to skill training in data gathering techniques. Evaluation in terms of each participant's local situation was stressed.…

Whereas the question included on handicapped children in the 1965 school census in Madison (Wisconsin) yielded incomplete results, the 1966 school census employing a questionnaire identified 314 handicapped children not in school. Of these, 50% were enrolled in an educational program, 52% were male, 58% were preschoolers, and 42% were aged 6 to…

Following a brief discussion of the development of the "South Carolina Educational Objectives for 1975," needs assessment data are provided. These data provide the criteria, status measure, and discrepancy related to School Dropouts, Instruction in Basic Skills, Program for the Handicapped, State-Wide Kindergarten, First Grade Failures,…

A comprehensive study of the vocational education needs, services, and funding in the State of Washington is described and documented in this report. The total study report was issued in two parts. Part One of the study, available in this issue as VT 021 097, summarizes the major findings and presents recommendations for improvement of vocational…

An historical overview of the Texas Small Schools Project (TSSP) from 1960 to 1969 precedes a discussion of statewide, regional, and school activities conducted with TSSP assistance: summer workshops, the testing program, and TSSP staff visitation at the statewide level; inservice training, talented-youth seminars, and health careers programs at…

The general goal of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program is to provide citizens and educators with information regarding the quality and progress of the State's system of public education. The State Board of Education recently approved four objectives of the educational assessment effort which will move the program toward this general goal…

This document is the Foreword, Preface, list of the English Textbook and Framework Implementation Committee, and Introduction of a larger document concerned with the English Teacher Specialist Program of the California State Department of Education. The Introduction provides background information, including a brief history of departmental…

Materials produced following a seminar held on the orientation to educational evaluation, conducted for ABE Summer Institute directors and allied staff, are provided. This material relates to common perspectives for effective evaluation that can become part of the evaluation methodology used by the summer institute directors. The planning for the…

For the 1973-74 school year the California Career Education Task Force decided that expanded activities would be most productively developed at six previously funded sites plus two additional sites. Since the eight project sites differed in geographic location, socioeconomic level, size, ethnic composition, and school organizational pattern, a…

Activities of the California State Department of Education related to the Early Childhood Education Program were audited, specifically: (1) overall data management and processing; (2) information quality for the evaluation of program impact; (3) treatment of standardized test data; and (4) procedures for expansion funding and termination. (CP)

All-day kindergarten and class size reduction are two Ohio initiatives funded through Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid (DPIA), a supplemental payment to school districts with substantial portions of families living in poverty. This report describes the extent to which districts implemented these programs and the challenges they faced during the…

The Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP), a state-initiated and state-funded preschool program, serves more than 20,000 four-year-olds identified as being at risk for school failure each year. A longitudinal evaluation followed 2 cohorts selected from 7 sites from kindergarten through Grade 3 for Cohort 1 and through Grade 2 for Cohort 2. Each…