A number of school divisions have entered year-round education without fully realizing the effects of such a program on the family and the community. Family vacations, child care, and routine living are disrupted by year-round educational programs. Community recreational facilities, church activities, public service programs, police work, and…

This survey includes programs that are designed for elementary and high school students and which (1) refrain from "institutionalized coercion," (2) de-emphasize traditional curriculum, (3) eliminate dependence on competition and encourage authentic self-motivation, (4) emphasize individual abilities and character rather than formal training in…

This report summarizes the results of a 3-month feasibility study of the education voucher plan for the City of Seattle. This study represents the activities conducted as the Phase I portion of the 4-phase voucher plan (February 15-May 15, 1971). The first section focuses on activities in the State of Washington relevant to the inception of the…

This paper describes the Florida Parent Educator Program as a component of Planned Variation Head Start. The program is currently being implemented in four communities embraces a philosophy of cognitive transactionalism, a philosophy molded by the work of Jean Piaget and others. This philosophy states that "the child is born with a set of…

The goal for the second year of the Colorado Mexican-American Student Program was to motivate and inspire a selected number of high school students to seek a college education. Students for the program were selected according to 5 criteria: (1) Mexican American ancestry, (2) promising academic potential, (3) completion of grade 10, (4) average or…

The study has examined variations in family socialization practices among Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans and the effect of these practices on achievement values, self-concept, and educational achievement. Data were collected and analyzed on 102 junior high school students and their families. Factor analysis techniques and Guttmen Scaling…

The unknowns about nonmetropolitan Southern poverty are systematically addressed by this monograph. The methodology employed isolates and gives equal treatment to 5 causal explanations. The 5 are genetic, culture of poverty, opportunity, maldistribution, and scarce resource explanations. Comprehensive materials are then organized around these…

Eight appendixes to a final report "Alternative Federal Day Care Strategies for the 1970's" comprise this volume. The appendixes are as follows: A. References for Estimation and Evaluation of Impacts upon Children and Parents--contains a list of 292 studies, articles, and reports published between 1958 and 1971; B. Impacts of Preschool…

A study of the effectiveness of various support systems of program models in Follow-Through schools examines those characteristics of a support system that strengthen or weaken the program's potential for success. Exploration of the nature of support system variables in a sample of schools is accomplished through group interview techniques for…

Problems of American Indians living in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, are discussed in the series of reports presented in this document. Information gathered by questionnaire forms the basis for the reports on junior high school Indian students, elementary school Indian students, teachers of elementary and junior high school Indian students,…

The Utica Community Schools was one of several school districts in Michigan to receive a grant from the State Board of Education for a feasibility study of the year-round school. This study report shows that, with a mandated four-quarter plan, savings of nearly $100,000,000 can be achieved on construction costs alone during the next 10 years. The…

An attempt was made to gather information about working women and to learn what provisions they made for the care of their preschool age children while they worked. In the pursuit of this information, the following tasks were performed: (1) documentation of where and how children are cared for while their mothers work, (2) finding out what working…

This 207-item questionnaire assesses drug-use practices, alienation, sexual orientation and practices, and wide ranging biographic and demographic factors in persons 14 years old and older. The instrument is untimed, and administered as a structured interview. Interviewers require a brief training period and some practice. See TM 001 169, 170 for…

The purpose of this study was to determine why so few black male high school graduates in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area attend post-high school area vocational schools. The investigator developed an instrument comprised of ten Likert-type scales and one true-false scale to test for differences between groups of students on their…

IN REVIEWING THE PROGRESS REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION COMMISSION ON SCHOOL INTEGRATION, THE HARLEM PARENTS COMMITTEE, WHICH FEELS THAT A RACIALLY INTEGRATED SCHOOL IS NECESSARY FOR QUALITY EDUCATION, FINDS THAT THE COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT ADEQUATELY. THE BOARD'S PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP QUALITY EDUCATION ARE STILL…