Teacher Aide Program; 1966-67.

This report of the Teacher Aide Program in the Minneapolis, Minn., Public Schools, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is divided into four sections. The first section is "An Overview of the Evaluation of the Teacher Aide Program, Academic Year, 1966-67." The next two sections summarize questionnaire responses of the 254 aides who participated in the evaluation; a description of the aides and an analysis of duties they performed is provided. The fourth section reports an experiment conducted during the second semester of 1967 to assess whether teacher aides could be used effectively to help develop reading readiness in kindergarten children. (SG)