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Compendium Nears Completion

Compendium Nears Completion ACADEMIC THERAPY PAGE 3 NEWS ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL 0 Thiny-one states have received a total of $4.4 million in 0 More than $122 million is now available under a new Right-to-Read grants, aimed at helping to eliminate illiteracy. program, Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, to help stu- The funds were awarded to state education agencies, and will be dents who need money for their education after high school. used in the development and operation of programs that utilize Currently the program 'is limited to first-year, full-time post- state and local resources to improve reading skills of both chil- secondary students. It is hoped that eventually a half-million dren and adults. students will benefit from this funding. Application forms are available at student financial aid offices at postsecondary insti- 0 Urban and rural school districts serving the highest con- tutions. high schools, post offim,and state employment offices. centrations of children from low-income families in forty-six states have received $28.1 million to help defray the costs of A total of forty-nine new exemplary vocational projects compensatory education. Target areas are remedial reading, lan- aimed at creating a bridge between school and the world of guage development, mathematics, and special instruction pro- work have been funded in forty-two states. Funding is for three grams and services. years. Seven million has been allotted for the first year. One of the goals is to provide job preparation in a wide variety of oc- *A downward trend, that started in 1963, continued cupations to students in grades 10 through 14, with special em- through 1972. Voters in the fifty states approved less than fifty percent of the school bond issues presented to them in 1972. phasis on work experience and cooperative education op- portunities. Essays on Career Education is a new publication ($2.10) Grants totaling $17 million have been awarded to school available from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington. districts and American Indian organizations to improve educa- D.C. 20402 (NO. 1780-01147). It describes career education tional opportunities for Indian children and adults. To assure a~ an instructional strategy aimed at improving education by Indian participation, the Indian Education Act requires that all relating teaching and learning activities more closely to the indi- projects receiving funds must be developed in cooperation with vidual's full development, including preparation for OCCU- the Indian population to be served. Part of the funding will go pations. to the special educational needs of Indian students enrolled in 0 A late announcement, but some may have missed it. The public elementary and secondary schools. Executive Committee of the National Reading Center Founda- tion announced in May its decision to phase-out all activities of Five grants totaling more than $11.3 million were the Center on or before the end of the current fiscal year. The awarded in July to non-profit groups for the purpose of pro- action was based on its inability to secure assurance of funding ducing television series and spot announcements aimed at ele- beyond the fiscal year 1973. All inquiries regarding the National mntary and secondary school pupils. The productions will focus on such areas as bilingual-bicultural education. mathe- Right-to-Read Effort should be directed to the Right-to-Read Office, U.S. Office of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.. matics, "lifelong" skills, and reducing interracial tensions among Washington, D.C. 20202. students. After over a year of carefully sorting through thousands of nominations, THE COMPENDIUM: PERSONS OF EMI- NENCE IN EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION is nearing comple- tion. This biographical index, which includes outstanding per- sons in the many fields of exceptional education, has been open only on the basis of nominations from other members of the educational and professional world focusing on exceptional chil- dren. Nominations have come from throughout North America and from many foreign countries. Printing should take place early in 1974, and those who have placed orders will receive their copies in early spring 1974. In addition, work is commencing on OUTSTANDING TEACHERS IN EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION, to honor those who have so successfully worked in the many fields of excep- tional children. Readers of Academic Therapy are requested to write for official nominating forms. The prime considerations are. major role as a teacher or remedial specialist in exceptional education, working with children in a public or private setting, whose teaching is acknowledged by one's peers and the com- munity. The fields include: the learning disabled, the retarded, the blind, partially sighted. deaf, hardafhearing, behaviorally and emotionally dlsturbed, disadvantaged, reding impaired, orthopedically handicapped, etc. Write to COMPENDIUM, 1539 Fourth Street, Sari Rafael, CA 94901, for official forms. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Therapy SAGE

Compendium Nears Completion

Academic Therapy , Volume 9 (2): 1 – Nov 1, 1973
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ACADEMIC THERAPY PAGE 3 NEWS ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL 0 Thiny-one states have received a total of $4.4 million in 0 More than $122 million is now available under a new Right-to-Read grants, aimed at helping to eliminate illiteracy. program, Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, to help stu- The funds were awarded to state education agencies, and will be dents who need money for their education after high school. used in the development and operation of programs that utilize Currently the program 'is limited to first-year, full-time post- state and local resources to improve reading skills of both chil- secondary students. It is hoped that eventually a half-million dren and adults. students will benefit from this funding. Application forms are available at student financial aid offices at postsecondary insti- 0 Urban and rural school districts serving the highest con- tutions. high schools, post offim,and state employment offices. centrations of children from low-income families in forty-six states have received $28.1 million to help defray the costs of A total of forty-nine new exemplary vocational projects compensatory education. Target areas are remedial reading, lan- aimed at creating a bridge between school and the world of guage development, mathematics, and special instruction pro- work have been funded in forty-two states. Funding is for three grams and services. years. Seven million has been allotted for the first year. One of the goals is to provide job preparation in a wide variety of oc- *A downward trend, that started in 1963, continued cupations to students in grades 10 through 14, with special em- through 1972. Voters in the fifty states approved less than fifty percent of the school bond issues presented to them in 1972. phasis on work experience and cooperative education op- portunities. Essays on Career Education is a new publication ($2.10) Grants totaling $17 million have been awarded to school available from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington. districts and American Indian organizations to improve educa- D.C. 20402 (NO. 1780-01147). It describes career education tional opportunities for Indian children and adults. To assure a~ an instructional strategy aimed at improving education by Indian participation, the Indian Education Act requires that all relating teaching and learning activities more closely to the indi- projects receiving funds must be developed in cooperation with vidual's full development, including preparation for OCCU- the Indian population to be served. Part of the funding will go pations. to the special educational needs of Indian students enrolled in 0 A late announcement, but some may have missed it. The public elementary and secondary schools. Executive Committee of the National Reading Center Founda- tion announced in May its decision to phase-out all activities of Five grants totaling more than $11.3 million were the Center on or before the end of the current fiscal year. The awarded in July to non-profit groups for the purpose of pro- action was based on its inability to secure assurance of funding ducing television series and spot announcements aimed at ele- beyond the fiscal year 1973. All inquiries regarding the National mntary and secondary school pupils. The productions will focus on such areas as bilingual-bicultural education. mathe- Right-to-Read Effort should be directed to the Right-to-Read Office, U.S. Office of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.. matics, "lifelong" skills, and reducing interracial tensions among Washington, D.C. 20202. students. After over a year of carefully sorting through thousands of nominations, THE COMPENDIUM: PERSONS OF EMI- NENCE IN EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION is nearing comple- tion. This biographical index, which includes outstanding per- sons in the many fields of exceptional education, has been open only on the basis of nominations from other members of the educational and professional world focusing on exceptional chil- dren. Nominations have come from throughout North America and from many foreign countries. Printing should take place early in 1974, and those who have placed orders will receive their copies in early spring 1974. In addition, work is commencing on OUTSTANDING TEACHERS IN EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION, to honor those who have so successfully worked in the many fields of excep- tional children. Readers of Academic Therapy are requested to write for official nominating forms. The prime considerations are. major role as a teacher or remedial specialist in exceptional education, working with children in a public or private setting, whose teaching is acknowledged by one's peers and the com- munity. The fields include: the learning disabled, the retarded, the blind, partially sighted. deaf, hardafhearing, behaviorally and emotionally dlsturbed, disadvantaged, reding impaired, orthopedically handicapped, etc. Write to COMPENDIUM, 1539 Fourth Street, Sari Rafael, CA 94901, for official forms.

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