The success of a student-to-student counseling Program which involves counseling of students by peers is attributed to greater acceptance of peer counselors by students because they 'speak the same language' and share the same problems. Counseling is conducted informally through telephone calls, in cafeterias and in classrooms. The student…

This paper describes a holistic milieu approach for underachieving, socially maladjusted students in a junior high school in Mattoon, Illinois. It also reports on the effects of the program on certain academic, affective, and behavioral measures taken on those students. The program, called the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), included five teachers, two…

Intended primarily for Michigan administrators, this document presents a variety of information on administrator evaluation. A survey of Michigan superintendents revealed, among other things, that there is a very high interest in administrative evaluation, that 45 percent of the responding districts have no formal evaluation system, that 36…

A computer program for the simulation of complex continuous process in real-time in an interactive mode is described. The program is user oriented, flexible, and provides both numerical and graphic output. The program has been used in classroom teaching and computer aided design. Typical input and output are illustrated for a sample problem to…

Funded by Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Migrant Education), the Colorado Migrant Child Identification and Recruitment Project (CMCIRP) identifies and enrolls all migratory children in the State in educational programs. Regional field representatives also refer the migrant family to all social service agencies serving the…

Included in this presentation is a description of a student handbook containing rules and regulations of the campus, and information about transportation, housing, health services, extra curricular activities, and other data. A telephone network is described which operates around the clock to give students access to a wide variety of topics…

Training for the first three groups of volunteer court counselors of the Portsmouth (Va.) Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court during 1973 was accomplished in a series of four short meetings conducted by various professionals. In December 1973, the author received a Title I grant to conduct an intensive training workshop for volunteer counselors…

This report presents a brief review of the development of methods and programs for treatment of drug abusers in the United States. In order to limit the scope of the report, discussion of the treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism is excluded. The report focuses primarily on the treatment of opiate dependence, since most of the experience on…

An overview of the Essential Skills Program at the National Institute of Education is presented in this paper. The paper is divided into three parts. In outline form, the first part of the paper describes the history of the program since its formation in December 1973. Also included in the first part is a short discussion of a number of the major…

The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Summer Reading Program is a parent-administered program designed to help children maintain the reading skills that they acquired in kindergarten through participation in a communication skills program. The subjects of the experimental group were 389 kindergarten students in four California school districts.…

Presented are 17 papers and a summary from the 1974 conference on National Technical Assistance Systems in Special Education. Included are presentations by the following participants: J. Gallagher, D. Stedman, D. Lillie and T. Black, D. Davies, E. Deno, J. McCarthy, D. Jackson, K. Lundholm, J. Chalfant, R. Johnson et al., P. Mann, W. Korba, R.…

In a collection of seven essays, the authors explain some of the problems in developing outreach programs for handicapped children and offer examples, from their own programs, of successful efforts. Included are entries on the development of replicable products in the Chapel Hill Project (A. Sanford), target audiences among Head Start Programs (C.…

In 1972, the H.E.A. Title I staff, with the advice and consent of the New York State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Continuing Education, the Board of Regents, and the U.S.O.E., adopted as one of two priorities for a statewide program that of encouraging regional projects in postsecondary continuing education to provide information on: (1)…

The Computer Managed Review and Examination System (CMRE) is described as a sophisticated form of computer-managed instruction designed to meet the needs of students who have some knowledge of the subject matter in a course of study, but may need to review material on some topics and increase their knowledge of others. The program incorporates a…

To make scientific, technical, and management information available to the general populace of Wisconsin, the Information Services Division (ISD) of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction undertook a project to establish a one-stop center at the University of Wisconsin that could provide users access to more than a dozen campus libraries.…