The Career Opportunities Program (COP) has been operating in the Hartford, Connecticut Public Schools since the summer of 1970. It is a project federally funded under the Educational Professions Development Act. In brief, the program provided the funds for Hartford paraprofessionals to further their formal education. The education provided these…

The development of six Project Information Packages (PIPs) was supported by the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) in 1973. The PIPs were designed to provide "how to" information and instructions to facilitate the implementation of the selected compensatory reading and mathematics projects in school districts with a minimum amount of…

The thesis examines the feasibility of several methods for providing remedial high school level education to Marine Corps enlisted personnel. It includes a review of recent Marine Corps enlistment experience and the serviceman's need for education. Also considered are the congressional and Marine Corps requirements for servicemen to process a high…

Presented is the final report of Project CHILD, a research effort to develop and validate screening procedures for the identification of language disabled (LD) children, three intervention models for LD children, and a competency based teacher education model. In the two phases of the first study, a battery of screening tests was evaluated with a…

After the needs of secondary students were assessed realistically, an English program was designed at Katella High School, Anaheim, California, to provide all students with more challenging, in-depth learning experiences and to equip college-bound students with the kinds of capabilities they will need in college. The program disregards traditional…

Industry-school partnerships are needed to help students, especially urban youth, become acquainted with the realities of preparing for employment and with the processes of finding a job, staying employed, and moving on through training to improved productivity and earning power. This report suggests considerations for organizing such partnerships…

The Second Grade Underachievers Program seeks to test the efficacy of educationally oriented play groups as a remedial educational technique as contrasted with individual tutoring, or a combination of tutoring plus educational play groups. The program attempts to interest and involve neighborhood agencies in more after-school programs that are…

Two final reports, winter 1968-1969 and summer 1969, respectively describe the sixth and seventh sessions of the Cambridge School Department's After School Center Program and involving six elementary schools. Both the winter and the summer programs were designed to give disadvantaged children remedial instruction in reading and mathematics along…

Presented are remedial activities for use by the classroom teacher with learning disabled elementary school children in her regular class. An introductory section discusses specific learning deficits, general motor coordination deficits, and behavior manifestations. Offered are 15 generalizations about teaching the learning disabled child such as…

A computer-assisted instructional (CAI) course, WRITE, was used at the Poughkeepsie, New York, Middle School to help 5th through 8th graders with spelling and word usage problems. The course used the Coursewriter III language and an IBM System/360 computer; students received self-paced instructional programs at typewriter terminals. All teaching…

The three major components of the HCSP, Academic Course Work, Academic Tutorial, and Clinical Tutorial, are discussed in detail, as well as budgeting considerations, program effectiveness, and recommendations for the future. See also TM 000 760 and TM 000 761. (AG)

Computer Assisted Remedial Education (CARE) I was developed for preschool and elementary school teachers to provide a college level computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course dealing with the identification and diagnosis of handicapping conditions in children. This first volume of the final report of CARE I covers the purposes and objectives of…

Each academic year since its inception in 1965, the Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) program has provided a remedial language and intensive counseling program to 100 disadvantaged ninth-grade students. The goal of the program is to improve the language skills, self-concept, and school adjustment of disadvantaged students having no serious emotional…

The problem of a steadily rising crime rate and an apparent inability of existing legal, judicial, and penal procedure to serve as either deterrents to or modifiers of criminal behavior are presented. The point is made that the principles of behavior modification derive primarily from basic research performed within the framework of the…

The College Discovery and Development (CDD) program completed its fifth year of continuous implementation in June 1970. This volume is the fifth in a series of annual reports describing the educational progress of students who had been enrolled in successive tenth grade classes each September, beginning in 1965. During this 1969-70 academic year,…