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Download full textFlast, Florence – 1975
Described are the problems in the New York City Schools' transportation system for handicapped pupils, and suggested are ways to improve services. The study included interviews with administrators, teachers, parents, students, bus drivers, and bus company representatives; observations at various school settings; and analyses of budgetary factors.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Exceptional Child Services, Financial Policy, Handicapped Children
Walberg, Herbert J. – 1971
This report is part of the evaluation of a program--Metropolitan Council on Educational Opportunity (METCO)-- for the academic year 1968-69, which provides screening, placement, and busing services for Negro children from predominantly Negro schools in Boston to predominantly white schools in the surrounding suburbs. In this evaluation, METCO and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Integration Studies
Peer reviewedNeef, Nancy A.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1978
A classroom program to teach public transportation usage (bus-riding skills) to five retarded persons (18-24 years old) was evaluated. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Daily Living Skills, Exceptional Child Research, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedPettigrew, Thomas F.; And Others – Integrated Education, 1972
A rebuttal of a negative evaluation of busing programs published by David Armor, which focuses on the methodological shortcomings of an investigation of a voluntary busing program in metropolitan Boston called METCO done by Armor. (JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedStrickman, Leonard P. – Urban Review, 1972
Sets forth ways of equalizing educational opportunity in public schools so as to avert two separate societies,'' and evaluates metropolitan approaches to the problem. (DM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Control, Educational Improvement, Government Role
Peer reviewedDonoho, William T., Jr.; Dentler, Robert A. – Urban Review, 1972
A report of problems and progress of the desegregation plan being implemented in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (DM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Methods, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Zdep, S. M. – 1970
A one-year experimental program that transported a total of 38 "volunteer" disadvantaged city children to schools in a nearby suburban community was evaluated in grades 1 and 2. Twenty-six of the 38 children were in a total of 12 different classes at these two grade levels. At the conclusion of the program, transported first graders…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Bus Transportation, Community Attitudes
Senf, Rita – 1967
Evaluated is the first year of operation of a program of educational bus trips to provide enrichment of New York City children in parochial elementary schools. Funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I, the project used buses provided by the Board of Education. Appraisal of the program was based on interviews with the…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Legislation, Elementary School Students, Enrichment
Barr, Jo – 1970
This report summarizes the findings of the 1969-70 evaluation of Project Follow Through in Wichita, Kansas. In the first year of the program, 186 Head Start graduates were bused from low income residential areas to four elementary schools located on the periphery of the city. The receiving schools varied in socioeconomic status of pupils from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Turner, W. E.; And Others – 1972
The sixth full year of Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act programs in Wichita, Kansas has just been completed. As in previous years, the major thrust of Title I or Project SPEEDY (Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth) has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compensatory Education, Educational Resources, Private Schools
Carriedo, Ruben; And Others – 1986
The San Diego Unified School District (California) began operating a computerized routing and scheduling system for its pupil transportation services at the beginning of the 1985-86 academic school year. The computerized system, provided by Ecotran Systems, Inc. (ECO) of Cleveland, Ohio experienced an inordinate number of difficulties. A…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Flow Charts
Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV. – 1970
Contents of this final progress report of staff training programs funded under Title IV, Civil Rights Act of 1964 include: guidelines for progress report; the integration effort brought up-to-date; project proposal activities for the period being reported; evaluation; dissemination; program changes; personnel; and problem areas and…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Leadership Training
Wichita Unified School District 259, KS. – 1970
This is the evaluation report of the fourth year of ESEA Title I programs in Wichita, Kansas called Project SPEEDY (Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth). While the major thrust was in the area of corrective reading and other language development programs, other instructional offerings included mathematics, music, art,…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Attendance, Bus Transportation, Business Education
Peer reviewedKirp, David L. – School Review, 1979
Presents an overview of British school policies for nonwhite (largely immigrant) children. Charts the development of busing for racial integration and discusses problems arising from the dispersal of nonwhites. Traces the termination of British school policy explicitly based on race. (RH)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Policy, Educational Problems
Anker, Irving – 1974
Based on the firm conviction that integrated schools are vital to our efforts to provide quality education for all children, the New York City Board of Education has continued to assume a leadership role in developing and supporting programs aimed at reducing minority group isolation. A variety of techniques has been employed: selection of sites…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Ethnic Distribution
