The project targets curriculum development, intensive participation by parents and community leaders in the educational process, mentoring of school children by male high school students, active involvement of local university personnel and interns at the schools, and coordination of activities among community service agencies on the children s behalf. The local school and district make their own financial commitment to the program by meeting a matching requirement established by the Plan. An extensive evaluation of the first phase of the Project was conducted during the spring, 1994. The results of this evaluation have strengthened and helped improve the project s second phase, which began in fall, 1994. The evaluation , monograph , and videotape have been disseminated widely across the nation.
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Other sites were added in 1997. The North Salem Technology Project is centered on a vision to employ technology to change the way educators teach, redefine the way students learn, and better prepare young people for the 21st century and the Information Age. The North Salem School District, with the help of the Plan for Social Excellence, Inc., raised additional funds to support the total project budget. In 1996, the Plan extended its grant through 1999 to support district-wide networking. Administered by Mississippi Valley State University, the Project hires ten tutors each semester to work individually with students, conducts workshops about educational issues, organizes a student-administered community service project, and assists them in making higher education and career choices.