This annotated bibliography of 1,997 projects dated from 1955-1969 and administered by branches of the Social and Rehabilitation Service is divided into four parts: (1) Research and Demonstration Projects which were authorized by the 1954 amendments of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, listed under 22 subject headings, (2) Cooperative Research or…

This demonstration project represents a pioneer effort in dealing with the joblessness situation of workers with convulsive disorders. Providing 1,200 jobseekers with vocational counseling, individual job development, training, and placement, the program showed that under good economic conditions a systematic approach can avoid needless…

This booklet describes the Model Observation Kindergarten and First Grade whose approach is based on the philosophy that education should be centered in the learner, that children learn at different rates and that children learn something only when they are ready. Many aspects of The British Infant Schools are incorporated in the program. Sources…

Fifteen reviews of conference reports, research and demonstration projects, and surveys pertain to the need for and applicability of vocational education for the disadvantaged in general, and specifically for disadvantaged adults and youth, and the handicapped. "Plain Talk," a continuing column by the editor, discusses the need for vocational…

A collection of nine papers selected from those presented at the Special Conference on Instructional Technology (San Antonio, Texas, December 1-4, 1970) concern instructional technology for personnel training. Included in the collection are papers on demonstration projects in instructional technology (purposes, planning, and problems),…

School training and vocational services were combined into a program designed to demonstrate that educable mentally retarded students could develop well rounded working habits that would mutually benefit them and the community. On-the-job training was used as a demonstration of the practical use of academic, social, and vocational skills learned…

The purpose of the demonstration project was to promote school-parent communications and to reduce the social distance between the school and the family, by involving both parents and teachers in the common task of educating the children. This report presents a description and findings based upon data collected during the first eight weeks the…

In Washington, D.C. in September 1968, because there were no after-school programs where the staff took responsibility for the children, the National Capital Area Child Day Care Association set up a demonstration program. This report provides an anecdotal record of the program's development. Two rooms were secured in the basement of a school, 50…

The major objective of this study was to examine the experience of four projects in Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, and Buncombe County, North Carolina in counseling and placing in jobs older hard-core unemployed workers. Originally the programs were designed to train the hard-core unemployed over 50 years of age. Generally the emphasis was changed…

The objectives and activities of the planning project are stated, the general goal being to plan a school in which adaptive, exemplary, and innovative instructional programs could be introduced and evaluated. A site plan, complete floor plans, and a front elevation drawing are included. (FPO)

This report evaluates a demonstration project attempted for the first time in New York City schools in 1969 which was designed to remediate absenteeism in the high schools. The project was to provide individualized attention and concentrated services for 16-year-old and older chronic absentees and their parents. Other objectives included the…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year (1970-1973) project, funded by Title III, to develop a model instructional and training program with 10 (five each year) 6- to 8-year-old, multiply handicapped, deaf children at the Indiana School for the Deaf. Described are use of a separate building at the school, experimental summer programs 1969-1972…

The end of budget period and final project report describes a California project intended to promote the adoption or adaptation of a prevocational education program for secondary level educable mentally handicapped (EMH) students. Data are presented on staff development, the nature and results of the project's dissemination and demonstration…

This document summarizes and highlights the main findings of a large scale research project concerned with the problem of innovation dissemination in adult basic education (ABE) providing an abbreviated, non-technical account of the research and pointing up the implications of the findings for policy decision-making at the State and national…

This procedural model includes progressive stages which must be worked through by an individual or institution in the process of change. These are: (1) Cultural and Racial Differences; (2) Racism and How It Operates; (3) Examining Racial Attitudes; (4) Sources of Racial Attitudes; (5) Behavior; What Should Be Done?; and (6) Behavior; How Should It…