This issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" will address the following three questions: (1) What are the challenges that developmental education programs face that affect their success? (2) Are developmental education programs an effective strategy for increasing college attainment rates? and (3) How can state policy improve the…

Chabot College has developed a new speech therapy program including individual and group remedial instruction for students with speech problems as well as course work for those students seeking information about the field of communicative disorders. The program operates in a newly developed speech and hearing center. (DC)

A multisensory program for teaching beginning reading is described. (JH)

This resource catalog is intended for the use of teachers and school administrators who wish to implement a special remedial program in basic skills. The characteristics, objectives, and planning of such a program are discussed. Program focus, grade level, and components are described. Ordering information is included. (JD)

To provide assistance to South Carolina schools in developing volunteer tutorial programs, the Competency Testing Project at Winthrop College created this manual on program development. This manual is designed to be duplicated and disseminated to coordinators and tutors; and although designed for an elementary school program, it can be used as a…

TITLE 1 FUNDS SUPPORT MANY READING PROJECTS IN THE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON, D. C. TWO OF THESE ARE THE MOBILE READING UNITS AND A TRAVELING BOOKSTORE. THE SELF-CONTAINED MOBILE READING UNITS ARE EQUIPPED TO PROVIDE IMPROVED DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES TO STUDENTS. THE TRAVELING PAPERBACK-BOOKSTORE OFFERS A WIDE SELECTION OF BOOKS WITH FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR…

ALL THREE PHASES OF THE EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL GUIDANCE PROJECT, CONDUCTED BY THE TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WERE CARRIED OUT SIMULTANEOUSLY. PHASE 1, REMEDIAL AND COUNSELOR CENTERED, DEMONSTRATED A TRADITIONAL ELEMENTARY GUIDANCE PROGRAM AND SOUGHT TO INTEGRATE SERVICES INTO A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM. PHASE 2, DEVELOPMENTAL AND TEACHER CENTERED, INVOLVED…

Political and social issues surrounding the evaluation of a campus learning center are examined and discussed. Issues with which the program evaluator should be aware when attempting to objectively evaluate special service programs for minorities are outlined. Special emphasis is placed on methodology and skills needed to select, as well as…

The seventh of eight related documents, this monograph describes the process for adapting the Reading Instruction and Pupil Personnel Services (RIPPS) Program to individual school systems. The appendix includes information designed to assist those involved in adapting the RIPPS program to their schools in writing proposals. Budget, students needs,…

Remedial writers tend to be students who have never written very much, who come from families or neighborhoods in which more than one language may be spoken, and who have sensed their problems but have been unable or unwilling to do much to alleviate the difficulties. Unfortunately, the environment and attitudes of many college remedial programs…

The program described in this paper, based on the language experience approach, considers students' needs, the first of which is immediate success and the second of which is perception of the value of improving their communication skills. In the first unit, the student composes a story or a report on tape and in the second unit, the student…