Described are the various efforts of the Cleveland, Ohio, public schools for the disadvantaged population of the Hough section of the city. Begun in 1960, the Hough Community Project emphasized compensatory education, pupil personnel services, curriculum modification, enrichment, administrative reorganization, and staff development. Various…

The aim of the CYCLOPS Project research is the development of techniques for allowing computers to perform visual scene analysis, pre-processing of visual imagery, and perceptual learning. Work on scene analysis and learning has previously been described. The present report deals with research on pre-processing and with further work on scene…

Built around the role of the teacher in outdoor education, this manual outlines important aspects of an organized Outdoor School program for sixth-grade students in Multnomah County, Oregon. The manual describes the Outdoor School, staff responsibilities, and orientation to the Outdoor School. Specific information for teachers, suggested follow-up…

This document describes a cooperative program designed to strengthen rapport between the college department of student teaching and its off-campus student teaching centers, to improve the quality and supervision of student teachers within these centers by developing increasingly effective cooperating teachers, and to strengthen the college…

"Dead" faculty members are ones who find little fulfillment in their work. The author offers some solutions for this lack of satisfaction, such as more dynamic educational leadership and programs of continuous learning. Department chairmen could serve as educational leaders by initiating faculty curriculum committees, various evaluation methods,…

Concerned with comprehensive career development and career guidance programs for grades K-14, the major emphases of this project were: (1) identifying major needs of and gaps in existing career development resources, (2) developing a series of learner directed multimedia career development modules, (3) designing and conducting a series of workshop…

The problems inherent in employing hard-core unemployed Negroes and the optimal locus of on-the-job orientation to integrate such employees into thework force were subjects of this study. It focused on young Negro females who, because of their inability to meet selections minimums for job entry, had a high potential for chronic unemployment. Among…

ERIC abstracts on needs assessment in education, announced by this and other clearinghouses in RIE through July 1973, are presented. The key term used in compiling this collection is "Educational Needs." The documents cover the philosophy of needs assessment, instruments and procedures used, and specific programs of needs assessment. The…

Intended for administrative personnel, curriculum specialists, and career education project directors who are considering introduction of career education activities in their school districts, this catalog presents a suggested curriculum design and detailed instructional objectives for career education for Grades K-9. An introductory chapter…

A program in which children were released from school one hour and thirty minutes earlier than the regular time each Tuesday, to provide time for elementary school personnel to participate in inservice training activities, is described. Three Tuesdays each month were designated for individual school activities to be planned and implemented by the…

The combined effort to first orient, and then place, 185 unemployed aerospace professionals into state and local government jobs is analyzed. Twelve months after placement activities commenced, 80% of the program participants are reported as now employed, with 70% employed in State/local jurisdictions. Previous decision making experience by the…

Following an analysis of work in the area of relationships between concept development and social development, a preliminary research project carried out to examine these relationships is discussed. Piaget's "The Language and Thought of the Child" served as a springboard for the past and present investigations. In the experiment…

This study examines the relationship between development of a child's ability to coordinate perspective and his ability to conceptualize spatial relations on a map. One hundred and four school children from inner city, urban fringe, and suburban schools, grades K-6, were administered a Test of Coordination of Perspectives and a Test of Map…

This paper reports a short term intervention in the area of "need to achieve" among disadvantaged preschoolers. Changes in measured intelligence were also examined. The study hypothesized that children receiving need for achievement ("n"-Ach) training would score higher on intelligence tests and evidence more of an increase in…

Two of 4 junior high school counselors participated in in-service training in Systematic Counseling. The materials used in the training program were developed originally for use with the Michigan State University School Counselor Training Program. The approach of the counselors who did not participate in the training program was labeled…