PROJECT ABLE, A STATE-WIDE PROGRAM TO PROVIDE BETTER EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS, WAS ADOPTED BY AN INNER-CITY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. SPECIAL STAFF USED WERE--INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALISTS, A READING CLINICIAN, AN AUDIOVISUAL COORDINATOR, A SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER, A VOCATIONAL AND PLACEMENT COORDINATOR,…

This booklet summarizes the 1,560 vocational education program improvement projects conducted during FY 1978-1979 under the Education Amendments of 1976 (P.L. 94-482) with respect to location, funding levels, funding recipients, educational levels, problem areas, and outcomes. Projects reported include research, innovative and exemplary programs,…

A process model is presented to provide an organized structure for improving schools and school staffs. In the model the school is the central focus, and it is seen in the context of related educational institutions, as part of a system that has interdependent parts. The components of this system are identified as: (1) the state; (2) the school…

The described inservice program was designed to bring together teachers to collectively address overall school problems. The project was based upon the belief that school improvements could be best effected by providing teachers the opportunity to actively participate in the design and implementation of changes in school functioning. Emphasis was…

The purpose of this investigation was to learn if individual differences between teachers affect the degree to which they are receptive to inservice training. The specific objective was to determine if the conceptual systems teachers use to organize and act on elements in their own environments differentially affected their participation in and…

This report presents the rationale, methodology, findings, and conclusions of a state-initiated program to assist disadvantaged persons in finding and maintaining stable jobs. Conducted under the direction of the California State Department of Human Resources Development (HRD), this incentive-based system utilizes job agents who are rewarded…

U. S. Office of Education funding has been provided to Region Nine for fiscal year 1973 for an Adult Basic Education (ABE) staff development effort, aimed at improving the delivery of adult education services to meet target population needs and Federal program goals through preservice and inservice training of personnel engaged in adult education…

An expanded seventh grade program developed from a proposal of the Guidance Department is discussed. The proposal aimed to reorganize the junior high school to better meet the needs of students and teachers. The basic procedures given in the proposal for attaining this objective were to change the role of the counselor to emphasize program…

The Texarkana model of performance contracting consists of five major elements: (1) turnkeying of cost-effective new technology as a basic program goal, (2) use of a performance contract for instruction, (3) use of a management support contractor, (4) selection of the learning system contractor by formal competition, and (5) use of independent…

A report is made of the first operating phase from March 1970 through May 1971 of a test of the feasibility of using financial incentives to stimulate more effective upgrading of the skills and earnings of low income workers in the private sector. TIPP provides incentive payments to employers based on results achieved. Program administration…

Several inadequacies exist in the training of those teachers who teach in reservation schools. These teachers often know nothing of the special characteristics of reservation life, of the language and culture of their pupils, or of the best ways to teach children of non-Anglo backgrounds. This absence of knowledge then causes adjustment…

Teaching improvement and institutional renewal efforts often face pessimism about change, if not suspicion and resistance, but faculty teams can overcome these problems through an action-oriented but low-profile "organic" approach. The need for personal invitations by colleagues is shown. (Author/LBH)

Professional development programs for faculty have been tested and have been proven to work. They are shown to represent an important new human technology for achieving educational improvement, personal growth, and institutional renewal. (Author/LBH)

Programmed textbooks were used to condition verbal repetoires relevant to motivation, test anxiety, and test wiseness in 118 sixth grade students. There was a significant effect on raw scores on an IQ post test. Students of lower intelligence made greater raw score gains than students with a higher IQ. (Author/GDC)

Studies elementary school childrens' abilities in (1) measuring and constructing angles, and (2) interpreting and constructing linear graphs as a result of instructional formats. Partitioned into instructional treatments of (1) science, (2) science-mathematics, (3) mathematics, and (4) control were 161 fourth- and fifth-grade children. Mathematics…