The Alaska Educational Program for Intercultural Communication is developing a method of needs assessment which is unique to the state, possibly to the nation. The staff is comprised of highly creative and interculturally sentient people, all uncredentialed in evaluation. Their task has been to develop structures which foster communication where…

The San Juan School (Espanola, New Mexico) was evaluated by a team from the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Central Office staff in Albuquerque. Team members assisted the Division of Program Review as representatives from other divisions, using the expertise in their respective fields. The methodology and techniques, which were left to the evaluator's…

The old campus school was the progenitor of the contemporary teacher center. It died due to excessive costs, its "artificial setting," and problems with control. The question is, Is the teacher center immune to the problems that beset its progenitor? A general consideration of teacher centers as a change vehicle leads one to speculate that because…

Information from 148 local evaluation reports submitted to the Tennessee Department of Education for both regular and summer programs is presented in the Annual Report on Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs. This covers the administrative structure, the role of the State Department of Education, the population, needs…

In recognition of the fact that teachers in this pluralistic society must have a multiplicity of skills, the School of Education of the University of the Pacific in 1970 initiated a self-study structure which resulted in a critical evaluation of its existing programs for the preparation of teachers. Programs were initiated and strengthened in…

The Community Involvement Program is a statewide community college program in Washington offering credit for community-based learning. Excerpts from several Community Involvement Program reports are presented: (1) overview of the Community Involvement Program (from the final report)--the CIP facilitated the development of a community-based…

More than three-fourths of the Nation's school districts receive funds for improving opportunities for educationally deprived children in low-income areas under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act. The Division of Compensatory Education, which administers Title I in the U.S. Office of Education, has examined a number of successful…

This document is organized around five broad purposes of the Community Component of the TTT Project in Early Education with suggested activities for their attainment. The five purposes are as follows: a) developing understanding and empathy for the Spanish-speaking Spanish American and Mexican American; b) identifying the salient environmental…

Investigating the process which led to the development of a Mexican American Curriculum Office within the Toledo Public Schools, the study examined the efforts of the Mexican American community to improve education in those schools. These efforts, which began in the spring 1970 and winter 1971, became a part of the proposal process for an…

The five goals of the 3-year Education Profession Development Act (EPDA) Project covered in this report are: a) to retrain experienced teachers and train auxiliary educational aides to assist handicapped children and educationally impoverished children to reach a higher level of learning potential in the regular classroom; b) to use the team…

The families served in the Cornell-OEO Project in South Brooklyn are described from three points of view: on a one-to-one basis, as selected subgroups, and in terms of educational work with groups. The one-to-one approach was used most. Demographic data for those served this way include family size, ethnic characteristics, residence location,…

The Ak Chin Reservation survey to determine educational needs had 3 objectives: (1) to discover what the Ak Chin desire and will support in education, (2) to encourage Ak Chin participation in planning on the basis of research findings, and (3) to obtain demographic data necessary for planning. A structured interview was administered to 52…

Summarized are the components and outcomes of a career education project begun in Oregon in June of 1969. One of the first comprehensive programs in the field, the Careers Oriented Relevant Education program had as its objectives to: (1) plan a program for the public schools based on life career roles, (2) establish effective communication between…

The purpose of this report is to present a description of the instructional program, funded in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and the findings of the study which assessed pupil performance in reading and mathematics and related estimated costs to pupil performance. The following projects were utilized as…

A group process approach to community involvement in community based mental health services is discussed. There are numerous difficulties involved in attempting to establish meaningful and effective community participation including program complexities, and interpersonal and staff complexities. It is suggested that to effectively approach…