This document reports on a series of studies conducted to assess the scope and quality of child care services in West Virginia. Included are: (1) a survey of administrators and staff members from all of the state's welfare areas ("area office survey"); (2) a brief description of day care settings and services; (3) an evaluation of…

The book discusses participation in secondary education in Europe. The study is based upon a 1975 survey of member states of the Council of Europe and upon a 1973 symposium on pupil participation and co-responsibility in decisions concerning school activities. Presented in eight chapters, the report discusses aims, key points, general tendencies,…

The purpose of the program evaluated in this report was to investigate the impact of increased guidance service on the educational performance of children. In this second year of the program; funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title III, all students in two elementary schools, one intermediate school, a junior high school, and a…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: facilitation of language development in disadvantaged preschool children; auditory-visual discrimination skills, language performance, and development of manual…

Montana's Johnson-O'Malley (JOM) funds provided services for 6,094 and 7,613 Indian students respectively in 1973 and 1974. JOM funds were channeled into special projects, i.e., home-school coordinators, tutors, counselors, special transportation, special teachers, Indian teacher aides, Indian studies classes, summer programs, field trips,…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: a comparison of mother/child and father/child interactions; state anxiety responses in high and low speech anxious subjects; variables that predict listening…

The Morse Crisis Intervention Center is a program of survival for the youth of the D.C. Public Schools who have been removed from the public junior high school because of disruptive behavior. The Center's on-going activities were supplemented by Project Advance in the following specific areas during the 1974-75 school year: (1) Psychotherapeutic…

In its fifth year of operation, the project served about 2,000 students in the Philadelphia public schools. The three components of the project are: (1) Model A, providing bilingual education from prekindergarten to fifth grade, (2) Model B, parallel in pattern to Model A but serving grades 1-4 and grade 2 at othe schools, and (3) Arriba, designed…

An evolving educational alternative, The Free School, has undergone many changes since its inception in 1971, which has made evaluation difficult. The end of year report, therefore, is presented in a principally narrative form utilizing case histories and personal comments, although pertinent graphs and charts are included. Among the difficulties…

The study evaluated five career resource centers (CRC) in Pennsylvania. The centers were located in two area vocational-technical schools and three senior high schools. The results showed the CRC's to be successful in organizing and maintaining all the necessary hardware and software; however, keeping career software materials up to date and…

The Community Day Program was adopted at Marcy Open School after strong parental support was demonstrated. A central focus of the program was to integrate community experience into the school curriculum and a large staff of volunteers was considered necessary for this task. Specific goals of the community plan were to provide activities,…

The social, mental and physical health of children in target Minneapolis Schools has been carefully studied. The intent of this project was to design and implement a program which would improve health. This report discusses the progress of the project for the first year. The project's activities centered around planning, needs assessment and…

The aim of this study was to obtain objective information on the school achievement of non-English speaking migrant children randomly drawn from three primary grade levels, and to identify some of the factors, such as home background, that are related to their achievement in school. Information on home background was collected by means of…

The study developed a pilot interview schedule and analyzed the decision-making process of 326 central Nebraska 1973 high school graduates relative to their educational/occupational choices during the following year. Data were gathered through personal interviews with the graduates and a telephone survey of their parents and were analyzed to…

Eleven sections compose this comprehensive and exhaustive bibliography on the black family in urban areas. It is primarily designed as a reference for those who wish to learn more about the life of blacks in urban areas. The sections are selected black periodicals, selected general reference works, United States libraries with major black history…