This volume describes and evaluates 21 selected New York City Board of Education Umbrella Programs for the 1974-1975 school year. The programs include: (1) the parent resource center, (2) the teacher self-help program, (3) the East Harlem pre-kindergarten center, (4) the Brooklyn College volunteer tutoring program, (5) the parent education for pupil progress program, (6) the career awareness program, (7) teaching English to adults in their homes, (8) advanced reading development, (9) the parent orientation program, (10) community and school education development, (11) basic skills after-school for pre-kindergarten, (12) the Goddard-Riverside Educational camp, (13) the Afro-American history caravan, (14) the mental hygiene-linguistic reading program, (15) the High Rock educational program, (16) pictures as a basis for teaching reading, (17) developing an informal parents group, (18) perceptual conditioning for decoding, (19) reading and language, (20) project miniteacher, and (21) the parent child orientation program. (Author/AM)