Twenty-nine projects evaluated during the 1967-68 school year in the national evaluation of Project Follow Through are discussed in this final report. The report provides, in a narrative format, only the "hard" data gathered during the pre-test period. Specifically, this report reviews relevant literature, describes the procedures and…

This guide was prepared during a 3-day institute to assist those involved in the initiation and continuance of joint in-service training between state Vocational Rehabilitation agencies and Disability Determination Units. The guide is organized around the major considerations in any training program, including: (1) content, which identifies the…

The term "outreach" was chosen to describe the array of efforts to provide educational opportunities to those not now well served or not served at all by the post-secondary system. Some of these, such as extension and correspondence, are well-tested approaches. Many fall into the category of non-traditional schemes as external degree…

The Milwaukee Bilingual Education Program, a five-year pilot project, ended its fourth year in June, 1973. The program provided a Spanish/English bilingual/bicultural curriculum taught by a bilingual staff of Spanish-American heritage. Both Spanish and English were used for instruction in order that pupils might demonstrate grade-level academic…

The objectives of a three-year comprehensive aerospace education program at Kenston High School, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, funded under Title III ESEA, were to provide marketable skills for non-College-bound students as well as counseling for the student planning on college or technical school education in the aviation field. Students also were taught…

The Open Classroom Institute started June 7, 1971, with a 1-week teacher training workshop followed by a 7-week innovative summer program in various curriculum areas for American Indian students in grades 1 through 3 at Concho School, Concho, Oklahoma. This publication is a statistical descriptive report covering the period June 7 - July 30, 1971.…

An evaluation of an experimental anthropology program which was introduced to students at the Magee Secondary School is presented. The purpose of the course, a detailed course outline, and the rationale and basic generalizations of Anthropology 11E are included. A listing of required and suggested course readings as well as student reaction to the…

First graders (105 males and 152 females) from 16 "Central City" schools within the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles were selected because they were diagnosed as poorly prepared for regular classroom activities. Following the administration of a six-category test battery, the children were placed within two groups: Group 1, containing…

Wichita's activities funded under ESEA Title I, designed to improve educational opportunities for its disadvantaged youth, began in the spring of 1966. The major thrust has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language development. Integration policies using busing prevented the concentration of funds on…

This paper sets forth an explicit framework--comparing the "costs" of meeting the language requirement with the "benefits" produced by it--within which university facilities can evaluate their position toward this requirement and other requirements and activities. The study draws upon an extensive survey of the University of Wisconsin faculty…

The major hypothesis of this study was that homemakers who have been enrolled in a home economics program designed to prepare for the vocation of homemaking perceive themselves as more effective homemakers and/or as full time employees than those who have not been enrolled in such a program. To conduct the study, the Duncan's New Multiple Range…

The 1970-71 evaluation of the Grants, New Mexico, Bilingual Education Project is reported through narrative description of tests administered and their results, statistical findings from analyses of variance or covariance of test results, and conclusions and recommendations based on test results. In the evaluation, the 147 students in the…

In February 1968, the Social Studies Implementation Project began as a cooperative venture involving twenty-three school districts in metropolitan St. Louis. The overall objective of the project was to operate a model which was designed to overcome the problems of curriculum implementation. Operationally, the project had several objectives: 1) to…

This report was written to assist in grounding and directing the use of the Elementary School Evaluation KIT within the context of real life educational decisionmaking. The KIT is an attempt to provide a cybernetic feedback system for schools to interact with aspects of their environments. The report notes that users must have some goals in mind…

The project here reported was conceived as a two-year effort involving analysis, interpretation, and dissemination. Its first year was funded to permit comprehensive, in-depth, comparative study of selected public school Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs in six metropolitan areas. The purpose was to utilize field research methods to construct a…