The manual provides a set of guidelines for documenting and assessing the degree to which the classroom component of the validated Regional Program for Preschool Handicapped Children is being replicated at other adoption sites. Section 1 identifies the three key elements of the Regional Program: the interactive teaching process; the…

The Technical Assistance Base (TAB) was established to provide the National Diffusion Network (NDN), a nationwide federal effort at school improvement, with the technical support needed to help NDN members strengthen their knowledge and capacities. This document reports on TAB's accomplishments over its first three years. Section one gives an…

The Technical Assistance Base (TAB) of the National Diffusion Network (NDN) maintains a central agency and five regional service units across the United States. This report encompasses the project's activities in the first six months of its second year within NDN. At the time, TAB staff had just completed a transition from serving as brokers of…

Designed as a technical resource, this paper provides information related to adoption of National Diffusion Network (NDN) programs in urban districts with populations in excess of 300,000. Data were drawn from a survey mailed to all NDN participants in early 1978, and are presented in four sections, mostly in the form of graphs, tables and charts.…