In August, 1967, the Bedford program for School and Community Participation in Sex and Family Living Education received a Title III grant to create a Center for the Study of Sex and Family Living Education. The center organized an inservice teacher education program for Bedford teachers grade one through twelve. The inservice teacher education…

The paper describes various methods that are being tried to provide learning experiences for northern Canadian children. Although there is no blueprint for northern education, there are some basic guidelines. Since the Northwest Territories (NWT) is a multilingual, multicultural society, relevant curricula have to be written in such a way as to…

This paper describes how a small group of people representing one community both identified and set in motion a strategy to deal with the perceived drug problem in their community. The emphasis of the paper is on the process by which this group moved rather than on the specific details of their efforts. The paper is actually a case study of one of…

The Oregon criteria of excellence for quality community reading programs include criteria for the following: (1) staffing, preparation, and inservice training for personnel; (2) organization and management; (3) maintenance and dissemination of materials and information; (4) diagnosis and prescription; (5) the developmental reading program; (6)…

This book examines community education programs and case histories and presents ways to implement such programs. It has been written primarily for the educator or administrator but may also be of interest to students, parents, and other citizens interested in improving the community. The authors proceed from the basic premise that "program" is…

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program in Arkansas for 1971 is described in this annual report. During this year the 385 eligible public school districts spent in excess of $24 million on programs to meet the needs of educationally deprived children. Major changes in the statewide program included a change from dual segregated…

The Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children (REPSAC) is a group educational program for "high risk" (of low birth weight and with various handicaps) Spanish American children. It aims to provide successful experiences for these children in both English and Spanish language learning and in improving cognitive and…

The Indian Teacher Training Project in Secondary Social Science Education (University of Georgia) was funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 2 years (August 1971--June 1973) to train American Indian students as social science educators to teach Indian students. These students, recruited from the Southeastern and Southwestern United States,…

The present report both details the initial statements of educational need made by State residents and adds more insight into underlying educational problems. The first report concentrated on a questionnaire approach to allow a cross section of the population to give their perceptions of Washington State educational needs. One of the principal…

This collection contains reports of 22 environmental study projects conducted by junior and senior students in a North Carolina high school. The scope of the projects covered total community service and sought to emphasize the students' roles as useful participants in the community. Fire, postal, health, and school services were surveyed, in…

This document contains reports of 11 environmental study projects conducted by junior and senior students in a North Carolina high school. Topics range from the construction of an artificial reef and a survey of seashore changes to surveys of past and present development of various facets of the county ecology. The emphasis is on student…

This report addresses itself to an important part of educational planning--community involvement. During the past few years, a variety of techniques has been devised to make citizen participation in the planning process more effective. One technique which has been utilized with considerable success, particularly in the field of education…

This report presents the evaluation of the Fall River Middle School Research and Development Center, a project funded under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Act as a model demonstration bilingual program, beginning in 1972-1973. The Title VII bilingual program operated at the fifth grade level in three schools with two bilingual program…

This report presents the findings and recommendations of a study to determine the attitudes of taxpayers toward the performance of School District 4J in Eugene, Oregon. Data revealed that only 32 percent of the taxpayers considered the district schools to be meeting community needs. Since the constituent opinions toward appropriate school…

Deprivation may take many forms: malnutrition, understimulation or overstimulation, limited language or social-emotional experiences, and others. The more extended the time of the deprivation, the greater the problem of amelioration. Research has shown that children who experienced deprivations do respond to early intervention and improve their…