In February 2008, the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) issued its first report on the fiscal impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) on taxpayers in Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin. There are two reasons to update the 2008 report. First, the figures will naturally change with the continuing growth of the voucher…

This report focuses on the seven original Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) projects selected for funding in 2003. Three of the original seven projects were selected for a national random assignment evaluation in 2005; however, this report only focuses on program operations prior to joining the random assignment evaluation for the three…

In this article, the authors describe a case in which school district officials used state regulations for new teacher mentoring programs as justification to cut funding and incrementally dismantle a model program. (Contains 1 table.)

Pastoral care in schools has traditionally been associated with notions of help, advice, values development, and children's moral welfare. In the past it has been viewed predominantly as a separate set of extra-curricula activities offered to students by school staff with particular support roles, or "pastors" from affiliated church or…

Reported is a project designed to explore the feasibility of establishing a self and home employment program for disabled homebound persons in clerical, business, and service occupations. The local homebound population was surveyed, businesses contacted, jobs studied, and five clients trained and placed. Results were successful and the jobs showed…

Gifted students (N=115) in grades 6-12 participated in the Symposium for the Arts, a model program allowing hands-on experiences with professional artists. Significant positive attitude changes toward the arts were revealed, and student evaluations of the symposium were overwhelmingly positive. (CL)

Five students, with I.Q's ranging from 62 to 78, were enrolled in a regular typing class. The results included increased peer-group acceptance, increased classroom participation, and slightly longer school attendance. (CH)

This demonstration classroom offers direct therapeutic and academic service to 10 emotionally disordered adolescents, opportunities for observation, participation, and training to teachers of the community. The foci are accurate observation, use of contingencies, the method of approximations, and discrimination training. The impact is upon…

Describes the Maryland tech prep consortium, one of the federal government's model programs. It seeks to give students on-the-job work experience that qualifies them for advanced placement at a community college and journeyperson certification. (JOW)

After attending a conference session about marketing, the author and his colleagues were inspired to start their own marketing program for the technology education program at Unionville High School in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. When they started, they had no idea how much that simple marketing program would pay off. Over the past seven years,…

Although random assignment is generally the preferred methodology in impact evaluations, it raises numerous ethical concerns, some of which are addressed by securing participants' informed consent. However, there has been little investigation of how consent is obtained in social experiments and the amount of information that can be conveyed--and…

The major point being made, then, is that we as educators can be far more effective if we can change our attitude toward emotional variables by removing these variables from the realm of ambiguity. The affective components of behavior in education must be seen as essential, rather than supplementary, to the learning process. Devices are being…

Prepared by the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, this publication contains annotations of 5,412 rehabilitation research and demonstration projects authorized from 1955 to 1968 by the 1954 Amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act and 143 cooperative research and demonstration projects…

This student teaching program was designed to strengthen communication and interpersonal relationships between the student teacher, the cooperating teacher, and the college supervisor. It was also planned to test the adaptability of an inner-city teacher training program to a rural environment (Ottawa) and to continue the pursuit of more effective…