This review of literature on South Asian nomads is part of a series of monographs on educational access published by the Consortium for Research on Educational Access Transitions and Equity (CREATE). In the context of India, most recent work has focused on access to the education system for the poor. CREATE research in India has focused on …

Describes the Sumner Mobile Preschool program designed to help parents recognize the potential learning possibilities of a home-based pre-school program. Small groups of seven to ten children attend class in one of seven neighborhood homes in which the preschool meets. (CS)

A description of Pensylvania's mobil computer-assisted instruction unit designed to provide graduate instruction to in-service teachers in their own communities. (AK)

A data processing van is a 12-foot by 60-foot mobile home containing 10 keypunch simulators, six keypunches, a verifier, sorter, accounting machine, 1622 card read-punch, and 1620 computer. The van is at each of four high schools during one quarter of the school year. (DM)

Education for Survival (EFS) was a project, funded under ESEA Title II, to provide elementary and secondary school teachers in District 50 of Colorado with multimedia materials on environmental education. Materials were stored and delivered to the schools in a mobile educational resources center/classroom (ECO-EMM). The bulk of this document…

Calfiornia State University (Long Beach) purchased a motor home and converted it into a mobile marine science display unit, outfitting it with built-in display racks inside and an awning to provide shelter displays suited to outdoor use. School activities and programs using the mobile museum are described. (JN)

The early childhood education program described in this report is a 3-year program of preschool education to prepare 6-year-old rural children to perform tasks and acquire skills expected of the average child at the first grade level. Language, cognition, motor skills, and orienting and attending skills are emphasized. This program is proposed as…

A mobile unit was used over a 2 1/2 month period to demonstrate that a mobile tutoring program for eight infants with Down's Syndrome (12 to 18 months old) had certain educational, economic, and logistical advantages. The vehicle and camper body were said to have been chosen according to the following criteria: sufficient height to permit an adult…

History of a mobile classroom. (Editor)

The Mobile Instructional Classroom (MIC) was combined with the concept of distance learning to provide coursework to inservice regular classroom teachers about handicapped students. A review of the literature revealed four factors necessary for assisting the teacher with integration of handicapped students: (1) knowledge about the characteristics…

This conference proceedings report contains abstracts of seven 1977-78 Virginia Adult Basic Education (ABE) projects presented at a dissemination conference for ABE administrators and teachers. The abstracts vary in length (two to seven pages) and format and focus on program objectives, procedures or strategies, expected results, findings,…

Approximately 468 children of migrant agricultural workers in the state of Washington are served in the nine Northwest Rural Opportunities (NRO) day care centers described here. A community organization program was also formed by the NRO system. Ninety percent of the families served are Chicano, and all are below the poverty level. These aspects…