According to this summary report, the State of Wisconsin has been guided by 3 goals in planning education programs for migrant children: (1) to increase familiarity of the school staff with the problems and needs of migrant children, (2) to develop a curriculum emphasizing communication skills, and (3) to build a school environment which…

This bibliography of 942 items, the first in a continuing series, is an attempt to bring together a list of all the documents relating to English teaching which have been processed into the ERIC system and which are available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. It includes documents from the "Office of Education Research Reports:…

The fifth in a series of teacher education units emphasizes the specific problems of teaching disadvantaged students. Discussed are research and its relationship to classroom teachers, the need for research about pupils, the teacher-pupil relationship, and the instructional program. One section of the document is devoted to ways in which teachers…

This booklet presents information about the scope of the New York State Department of Education programs for the disadvantaged (as of 1966). The contents are arranged under the headings of teachers of the disadvantaged, and disadvantaged children, youth, and adults. Lists of school districts participating in various projects and programs are…

This New York City school district educational project was designed to provide speech therapy for educationally disadvantaged pupils with severely defective speech who were in attendance in nonpublic schools. The speech therapy was provided by 42 teachers for 7,385 children. Participants met for one-half hour in small therapy groups. The project…

This publication is a collection of selected papers presented by participants in an adult education seminar, spring semester 1969, at Kansas State University. The focus of the seminar was on understanding the adult basic education programs. Papers covered topics such as student recruitment; adult dropouts; teaching techniques; adult learning…

This collection of reports on French civilization represents the efforts of several teams of students participating in the 1964 NDEA summer institute at Rennes, France. As a partial requirement for the civilization course, the groups submitted field study reports of the cultural life at Rennes and Brittany including: (1) environment and…

This Program of Instruction (POI) provides a trained "Specialist in Continuing Education" (SCE) with a series of tested activities and alternatives that he may utilize in a 6-week training program or in various programs in his local situation. In their own professional situations, the SCE's trainees also might find some or all of this material…

The general purposes of the present project were: (1) to develop a multifaceted special education system for providing maximum educational support to children regardless of their classification, (2) to demonstrate this alternative through a noncategorical educational model involving regular and special education in management plans for children…

The purpose of the study reported here was to design a model for the development of a human relations program in selected racially mixed public schools. The following efforts were undertaken: (1) an examination of the literature to obtain the rationale for school desegregation, (2) an identification of a national sample of desegregated school…

This report contains a summation of the data collected on the Fiscal Year 1973 Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 projects in the State of Illinois. The report covers many issues which are relevant to the Title I projects. Such issues are: participation of local educational agencies, program objectives, results of the instructional…

The Amherst-Pelham (Massachusetts) School District has implemented an individualized performance-based staff evaluation program (commonly referred to as Management by Objectives or MBO) to motivate and reward professional growth while accommodating differences in abilities, attitudes, and skills. Teacher evaluation and staff development activities…

Presented in the third year report of the Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Research and Intervention Project *Nashville, Tennessee) are discussions on theoretical applications, educational services provided for 75 6-month to 6-year-old children and their families, and teacher training procedures; and 12 research summaries. Discussed is the project's…

The Preface Plan described in this report represents the first effort of a metropolitan school system to provide a concentrated relevant training program for new inner city staff that begins after being hired but prior to the assumption of teaching duties. The recent project in which it was field-tested was supported by a federal contract from the…

The purpose of the career education project of the public school system of Yonkers, New York was to develop a conceptual model program appropriate for the diversified urban composition of Yonkers by use of the delphi technique to gain a broad consensus of and commitment to the basic premises of the career education model. A two-round, 35-statement…