The Nassau Educational Resource Center is a multimedia, multi-area curriculum and instructional materials center, with an educational communications training component. The catalog contains listings of the professional resources made available at the Center in the area of multi-ethnic studies by the Racial Ethnic Action Project (REAP). REAP,…

"The Achiever" is a monthly publication for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) President Signs College Cost Reduction Act; (2) Galvanizing the Community: Charter Schools Provides Greater Choice to Colorado Latinos…

RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO FIND THE VALUE OF AN ENRICHED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR A HOMOGENEOUS GROUPING OF MENTALLY SUPERIOR STUDENTS. STUDIES WERE CARRIED OUT WITH AN EXPERIMENTAL AND A CONTROL GROUP TO FIND DEVELOPMENT IN LEADERSHIP CAPACITY, INTERESTS, ABILITY TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS, ARTISTIC ABILITY, AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT. OBJECTIVE…

A REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER TO SERVICE THE NEEDS OF SEVERAL DISTRICTS WAS STUDIED. THE PURPOSE WAS TO MAKE AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT TO RUN PILOT PROGRAMS UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS. SUCH A CENTER WOULD BRING STUDENTS FOR TEST PROGRAMS, AND WOULD PROVIDE A STAFF THAT COULD GO OUT INTO VARIOUS DISTRICTS AND TEST THE PROGRAMS UNDER…

Nine components of Westchester County's Family Day Care System in White Plains, New York, are outlined in some detail. Westchester County, comprising 450 square miles of cities, suburbs, towns, and villages, borders on the Bronx, and, while very affluent, has the second largest number of homeless persons in the nation, and an ethnically and…

A resource center of folios, supplies, charts, and a file cabinet has proved its value to a group of four teachers using Situational Reinforcement Methods to teach adult English as a second language. Through each teacher's contributions to the center, stimulus and variety are provided while meeting immediate student needs. (AG)

The New York ALRC (Area Learning Resource Center) has provided the New York State Education Department, Office for Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions with resources and personnel necessary to develop a state service which effectively informs and trains the individuals involved in the education of handicapped children and on the…

This report offers a comprehensive perspective of the operations of the Clearinghouse of Resources for Educators of Adults upon the completion of its fourth contractual year. The mission of CREA is to provide resources and information about resources for use in the professional development of educators of adults. The report reviews the mission,…

The manual provides information on procedures--the videotape recording procedure (VTR), the mobile resource center (MRC), and the child services specialist (CSS)--developed and used in the Cooperstown (New York) Head Start Program, a 3-year experimental project for developing ways to deliver services to rural area preschool children with special…

A guide to help physicians identify handicapping conditions in young children and to refer the children to educational and habilitative services at an early age is presented. The first section describes the rationale for early intervention and includes current research that supports and documents the benefits of infant and preschool special…

The trends in post-industrial society toward decentralization, diversity, and individualization, with emphasis on synthesis rather than analysis, require educators who are more flexible, adaptable, and capable of managing diversity; this can prove advantageous to small and rural schools, which have long been using such a philosophy. Educators will…