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Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1976
In 1975-76, an outreach activities component enabled REPSAC (a highly successful early childhood bilingual intervention program) to provide replication services to various local education agencies requesting such services. Training was taken to the replication centers by a specially designed and equipped motor coach. During the year, the Fort…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education
Ferguson, Clovis B.; Ronan, Franklin D. – 1971
In 1971 a survey was conducted by the Dearborn Schools to determine the curricular changes necessary to improve the electronic data processing (EDP) courses in the high schools and community colleges. Input was obtained from a 9 point questionnaire sent to 275 local data processing facilities and a 12 point questionnaire sent to 394 former EDP…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Processing
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Semmes, Clovis E. (Jabulani K. Makalani) – Journal of Black Studies, 1985
Twenty Black arts majors at a White university were interviewed to ascertain their specific artistic goals, their motivation to become artists, their relationships with professors and peers, and their perceptions regarding obstacles to achievement. The results illuminate why Black Americans must continually address the problem of legitimacy within…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Students, Career Choice, College Students
Ferguson, Clovis B.; Steen, Charles V. – Journal of Business Education, 1971
Providing a degree of service to both students and faculty, the school-store concept offers educational relevance rarely achieved in other departments of the comprehensive modern high school. (Author)
Descriptors: Business Education, Distributive Education, Retailing, Salesmanship
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1980
A Clovis, New Mexico, project designed to develop over five years a model English-Spanish bilingual program for limited English proficiency students from nursery school through grade 6 did not fully meet its objectives during the 1979-80 school year, the project's fifth and final year. One hundred forty students enrolled in grades 3-6 in two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Askins, Billy E.; Alford, Gay – 1973
Initiated in 1972, the Bilingual Early Childhood Program (BECP) serves as early intervention for 3- and 4-year-old children in Clovis and Portales, New Mexico (40 children at each site). Target group children were predominantly from Spanish-speaking backgrounds and were selected as participants using guideline requirements of language, background,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation
MANNING, JOHN C. – 1966
THIS RESEARCH STUDY EVALUATED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE METHODS OF FIRST-GRADE READING INSTRUCTION EMPLOYING SIMILAR BASAL READER STORY CONTENT. THE THREE METHODS WERE--(A) THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES OUTLINED IN THE TEACHERS MANUAL ACCOMPANYING THE GINN BASIC READING SERIES, (B) A LEVELS-DESIGNED PROGRAM STRESSING EARLY INTENSIVE LETTER…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Koopmann, Richard W., Ed. – 1996
This sourcebook is a compilation of presentations from the National Interpreters Workshop held in Billings, Montana, in 1996. In this book, interpreters share stories of American battlefields, driving tours, wetlands, clovis points, floating classrooms, perfect signs, art collaboration, and wild animals in interpretive programming. Sections…
Descriptors: American Indians, Animals, Art, Blacks
Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1975
This report describes an external evaluation study of two of the components (instructional and community-parental involvement) on an on-going bilingual intervention program for 3- and 4-year-old children. The purpose of the intervention program is to facilitate the learning of English and Spanish simultaneously in an environment designed to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Cooperation, Home Visits, Intervention
Webre, Elizabeth C. – 1988
This annotated bibliography of 45 children's books with Cajun themes includes books using Cajun dialect and common French phrases, books revealing the importance of the family unit and the "joie de vivre" associated with the Cajun culture, and books recording the regional Cajun folklore. Each annotation consists of author, title,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education
Schroeder, Anthony B.; And Others – 1981
The external evaluation of the Title VII Bilingual Education Program of the Clovis Municipal Schools (NM) is described. The purpose of the program is to provide bilingual instruction for selected participants, grades K-3, in eight elementary schools. The evaluation was designed to (1) observe classroom teaching and activities utilized in bilingual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Fresno City Unified School District, CA. – 1984
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: The Fresno County Office of Education and the Fresno Unified School District hosted the Mock Trial Competition. The state competition is sponsored by the Constitutional Rights Foundation, with cosponsorship from the California State Bar Association and the California Young Lawyer's Association. This…
Descriptors: Competition, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Demonstration Programs
California School Boards, 1983
This theme issue of "California School Boards," October/November 1983, identifies some of the business-education partnerships in California. After an introduction with an overview of the reasons behind the increased interest in business-education partnerships, are articles on the following: (1) educational reform recommendations by the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Cooperation, Public Schools
Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1973
The major goals of the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children (REPSAC) are early intervention to prevent placement of Spanish American children in special education classes, provision of media and learning activities which enhance and develop a favorable self-concept and attitude toward his own and other cultural groups, and…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Analysis of Covariance, Community Involvement, English (Second Language)
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1977
This report presents the results of an external evaluation of a model bilingual program for nursery school through third grade students in the municipal schools of Clovis and Portales, New Mexico. The project is divided into three programs--nursery school, kindergarten, and grades 1-3--designed to reach children with limited English-speaking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
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