The 1970-71 Follow Through Planned Variation study will evaluate new approaches to early education for children from low income families. Brief descriptions are given of the 20 program approaches being used in 160 public schools selected for the study. Programs reflect a wide spectrum of theoretical positions, which range from less structured…

This review of research and demonstration projects includes only those projects supported by the Research and Evaluation Office. No attempt is made to relate these projects or their findings to projects supported by other agencies or institutions. Further, this review excludes all national evaluation studies, i.e., those studies utilizing national…

The provisions and purpose of Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act related to the education of handicapped children are reviewed. Amendments to the law in 1967 and the goals of the program are considered. The role of the states in submitting plans to the Office of Education and eligibility requirements and procedures are…

An Educational System for the Seventies (ES '70) is a research and demonstration program representing a broad scope of activity that cuts across every aspect of education. Four main categories of activities comprise the substance of the current effort: staff development, instructional managment and career guidance, school management, and…

Educational policy of the future must place the role of education within the broad context of societal goals. The urban slum condition will not be eliminated by individual programs which focus on special problem areas viewed in relative isolation. The Model Cities Program is a unified approach. First, neighborhoods are asked to fully analyze their…

The development, for inner-city ghetto youth, of a child care model that functions within a family/neighborhood framework rather than from the "safety" of distant residential treatment centers, is essential to the goal of eliminating the fragmentation and inadequacy of such services and the continued disregard of the prerogatives and rights of…

The mini-grant concept has emerged in recent years as a specific catalyst for the promotion of educational change. A mini-grant is a small grant awarded to an individual (usually a teacher or supervisor) in order that he might investigate or further develop an idea within the classroom or school setting. Developed in the State of New York, this…

This report provides a case study of cooperation between the New Jersey Department of Education and the Model Cities Program to improve State education planning and to restructure grant administration machinery. To assist the project, the Department provided onsite technical assistance to the model cities. According to the report, the Department…

This report summarizes the efforts of a demonstration project at Prairie Elementary School in Urbana, Illinois to implement individualized reading and mathematics programs and to introduce the systematic application of behavior modification principles in the classroom. It describes the development, implementation, and revision of Individually…

The final report is presented for an exemplary program in vocational cooperative education for community colleges developed through a three-year consortium effort of five California community colleges. This national demonstration model shows that community college cooperative education (Classroom study and off-campus, paid work experience) is an…

The Community Mental Health Workers Project is a 5-year community-based staff-demonstration study designed to develop, train, utilize, compare, and evaluate the effectiveness of three new types of middle level workers for community mental health programs. The three levels of workers are classified as: (1) an aide who will be an indigenous member…

The demonstration project was designed to develop a teaching method and instructional materials that would emphasize syntactic meanings of words for deaf preschool children. The teaching method was developed with a group of six deaf preschool children, and then demonstrated and modified in five other schools for the deaf. The teaching method was…

A three-year home-teaching demonstration project with the geriatric blind was conducted with 171 clients in the experimental group (132 were blind for 10 years or less and were 60 years of age or older, 11 were blind 17 years or longer, 7 were in an apartment group, 7 died, and 14 had incomplete records) and 44 clients in the control group. The…

Since the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA), the Department of Labor has funded over $30 million worth of experimental and demonstration (E and D) projects in an effort to discover some new directions for dealing with the unemployment problems of disadvantaged youth. To evaluate the effectiveness of these and…

This demonstration project was designed to prepare disadvantaged youth from the inner city to meet the requirements for, and perform effectively in, the apprenticeable construction trades in the District of Columbia. Of 160 trainees who were prepared for apprenticeship in two 24-week cycles, there were 143 graduates, of whom 120 were placed in…