Study objectives were to find out whether the use of disadvantaged women as parent educators of indigent mothers of infants and young children (1) enhanced the development of the infants and children, (2) increased the mother's competence and sense of personal worth, and (3) contributed to the knowledge of the home life of infants in the study. In…

The last of a series of five reports, this annotated bibliography includes a short review of the specific sections in which the bibliographical listings are grouped. The 46 items listed are arranged in the following sections relating to the Job Corps programs: history and need; planning and program descriptions; administration; instruction…

This annotated bibliography contains about 260 entries on various aspects and areas of occupational training for disadvantaged adults. Bibliographies and information sources are listed first. These are followed by sections on problems of the disadvantaged, Federal programs, and national policies; job training and skills programs (including some…

A pilot project to provide educational, psychological, and social services for elementary school children who are educationally retarded, emotionally disturbed, or socially maladjusted was developed to help a school system deal more effectively with disruptive or learning disabled children. An interdisciplinary approach was used and three major…

The present study was an attempt to assess the impact of Project Head Start upon the parents of children who participated in a 6-month Head Start intervention program in Austin, Texas. The sample was comprised of 57 Negro and 51 Latin-American parents. From the Parent Interview, which was administered to the female caretaker (usually the mother)…

This project was designed to bridge the gap between the home and school by sending family assistants into the homes of potential dropouts and youngsters whose school work and behavior are not satisfactory. One hundred and two family assistants acting with schools' attendance coordinators, deans, and guidance personnel, work with pupils whose…

This handbook provides guidelines for administrators and teachers for establishing classes that emphasize individualized programed learning. The suggestions are primarily for use in community adult school classrooms of standard size. Some of the "hows" of setting up the program are: (1) the utilization of the classroom (space, size, and…

The SPAN Project was developed as an exemplary career education project to serve grades K through 12. The program consisted of three components: one at the elementary grades, one for middle or junior high grades, and a component to service the senior high school students. The original title, "An Accelerated Project for a Systems Program…

A prevailing concern of leadership development is the extent to which performance-oriented training increases the ability of an individual to define and implement a process to accomplish stated objectives. The systems approach provides an analytic strategy for task decomposition into sequentially, temporally ordered activities without necessarily…

The major portion of this report is devoted to a description of the objectives, training strategies, evaluation strategies, and recommendations of the two 1973 summer Institutes for Program Assistants and Field Representatives of the Tucson Early Education Model (TEEM) Program. Within the TEEM program, education is viewed as a continuous process,…

Educational Staff Seminar (ESS) is designed to assist professional staff members who are employed by the Executive and Legislative Branches of the Federal Government to obtain a more realistic understanding of current educational practices and problems and to improve communications between Washington educational staff members and educators in the…

The High School Redirection Program was designed to maintain 240 potential dropouts in an educational-vocational setting while assisting them to progress toward a high school diploma. Students were admitted from 13 high schools in Brooklyn and from Andrew Jackson in Queens. They were to follow a work-study program through the summer and regular…

The Satellite Academies Program (SAP) is considered to have the following central goals: (1) to improve basic academic skills, (2) to provide meaningful work experience, (3) to develop a job-related educational curriculum, (4) to involve the business community in education, (5) to increase student involvement in the educational process, and (6) to…

The contents of this document describe the revised Center for Urban Education (C.U.E.) plan for carrying out evaluation of the Satellite Academies Program. The 10 "areas of interest" are as follows: (1) Instructional and guidance staff selection and training; (2) Program entrance and exit criteria; (3) Legal issues; (4) Guidance and…

The questionnaire and interview materials which form the document were used in a followup study of 1,500 students who attended a 2-year occupational high school; the materials attempt to relate predictor measures to success during training and subsequent job success. The document includes two brief student questionnaires (one for those still in…