Schools are moving toward greater differentiation of instructional staffs through the use of paraprofessionals. A sophisticated differentiated instructional program requires the assistance of paraprofessionals. (Author)

Describes the activities of the Cherokee Bilingual Education Center, created in 1969 by Northeastern State College at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (MB)

Describes a seven-week unit on Sensitivity to the Aging Process'' for elementary students, and a program which utilizes retired persons as classroom aides. (SP)

Recommends State legislation establishing a comprehensive educational program beginning at age 3 or 4, and the expansion of training programs for teachers and assistants. (MF)

An experiment in the employment of community aides to bring the home economics program closer to the lives of students and parents in low-income neighborhoods. (Editor)

Discussion based upon a model post-secondary two year college program for teacher aides developed under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (Editor)

Describes a tutorial method of individualized, programmed reading instruction that doesn't require and sophisticated materials for its implementation. (AN)

The Early Childhood Education Program at Essex Community College is used as a model to present the intentions, realizations, and disappointments of a new careers" program for inner-city resident adults. (CA)

In most bilingual education programs, the traditional course instruction, is conducted by the classroom teacher in English and later presented by the instructional aide in Spanish to the Chicano student. This implementation process and differentiated instructional modes may have severe consequences for the Chicano students' performance and…

Teachers, as referral agents, and nonprofessional child aides, as interventionists, rated 709 children seen in a school-based mental health program. Better liked children and those seen initially as having less severe problems had healthier referral and termination profiles and were judged to have improved more in the program. (Author)

Describes challenges rural school districts meet in recruiting young, talented teachers, particularly those facing tough new federal standards for hiring teachers in Title I schools. Describes how some school districts are meeting the challenge through emphasizing the benefits of rural schools, identifying and assisting high school students with…