A report from the School Choice Demonstration Project examines issues concerning the funding formula used for the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). It finds that the program generates a net saving to taxpayers in Wisconsin but imposes a significant fiscal burden on taxpayers in Milwaukee. However, these findings depend significantly on how…

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)

This study empirically investigates the effectiveness of Distributed Leadership Teacher Training (DLT) program on improving student's academic achievement. In addition, it both tests the assumption that the year 1 impacts are stable across calendar years and examines the importance of properly accounting for the fact that the standard error of the…

During their three-year research project, the authors found that most practitioners, researchers, and policymakers in the education field were not familiar with Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) or the existing research on IDAs. Therefore, in this paper the authors compiled a list of some of the references that they found useful and that they…

With the passage of 2005 Wisconsin Act 125, private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are now required to administer a nationally normed standardized test annually in reading, mathematics, and science to their MPCP (a.k.a. "Choice") students enrolled in the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades. The law further…

This paper presents a practical framework for relational practice with birth families, organized around parental visitation. The approach was developed in the Birth Family Foster Family Connections Project, a three-year collaborative research demonstration project between a large private agency and the Washington State Department of Child 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…

A 4-DAY SEMINAR WAS ORGANIZED AROUND SEVEN PAPERS WHICH PROVIDED A BASIS FOR DISCUSSION FROM MANY POINTS OF VIEW. THE PARTICIPANTS WERE THOSE INVOLVED IN WORK IN THE ARTS WITH THE DISADVANTAGED IN VARIOUS AREAS, AS WELL AS A PSYCHOLOGIST, A SOCIOLOGIST, AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, A RESEARCH SPECIALIST IN ART EDUCATION, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF STATE AND…