The material describes Louisiana's Down's Syndrome Project designed to prepare young children with Down's syndrome for transition to school and for placement in the least restrictive environment. Program location, budgeting, and funding information are discussed along with four major objectives. An organizational chart illustrates local and state…

The paper describes the evolution of the Learning Games Libraries (LGLs), a collaborative approach between special education and public library staff to offer developmental learning materials to young handicapped children and their parents. LGLs began in the United States in 1935 and have spread to at least 23 countries, offering services to both…

Intended for coordinators of volunteer recruitment, the booklet examines practical issues in developing and implementing programs in which industry employees serve as volunteers in special education. Introductory material briefly addresses volunteerism in America, and considers the need for industry-education cooperation as well as advantages to…

The Colorado Training Institute (CTI), established in 1980, is a non-profit, instructional program devoted to promoting hazardous materials safety through education. It has trained over 3,000 emergency response personnel and industry officials and is a unique example of the private and public sectors working together to protect the public from…

Presented are 18 papers developed by the Gulf Coast Consortium and intended to provide documentation of Head Start services to handicapped children. The first three papers provide an overview of the consortium with emphasis on the impact of Head Start programs on the language learning disabled child. Eight papers focus on the use of psychological…

This paper describes the evolution of the alternative education program at Spingarn High School in the District of Columbia. The intent of the alternative program is to provide a variety of self-actualizing learning experiences for students through diversifying scheduling and instruction. Curricular options include majors in art, music, the…

The State Library of Florida funded a year-long project to examine the concept of cooperative/combined programs between school and public libraries to determine their potential for improving library services and reducing expenditures. Phase I involved development of an interview schedule and evaluation instruments, and visitation of the seven…

The Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District/North Texas State University professional semester for preservice teachers is described as an effective, organized, cooperative action program at the local level. Organization, objectives, and procedures are described, and examples of forms used in the student teacher center program are presented.…

Faced with unabated inflation, declining enrollments, and forbidding demographic trends, scores of small liberal arts colleges are restructuring to attract students and subsidize costs. Approaches taken by several specific schools are described including career oriented programs, mutual assistance partnerships with corporations, and luring of…

Presents, adapted for higher education, the six phases that Greiner indicates business should go through in the change sequence--pressure and arousal, intervention and reorientation, diagnosis and recognition, invention and commitment, experimentation and search, and reinforcement and acceptance. (Author/IRT)

Paper delivered at the Adult Basic Education Workshop, at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland, Jun 68.

Beginning with an overview of problems springing from lack of coordination of federal, state, and local educational programs, this paper examines the current and proposed coordination of such programs across the nation and in New York State and New York City. It defines and makes a case for comprehensive school planning as a planning process…