Operating in a pilot region, Project Communicate established a comprehensive educational information system to support the adoption of innovative instructional practices in classrooms. It provided field consultants, individualized information service and information processing units in the state education agency (SEA). It provided for two major changes from the previous year; (1) a system of local linkers replaced the extension agent; and (2) computer searches were reduced by the use of curriculum guide catalogs. A shift in Fiscal Year 1975 from federal to state and local funding necessitated a regional expansion to the remaining 2/3 of the state and to educational agencies other than SEA. Computerized information search and retrieval capacities expanded to the existing staff in institutions of higher education and one educational cooperative under contracts from the Kansas State Department of Education. The Kansas Educational Dissemination Diffusion System was established to provide "practices/programs/processes" from an extensive resource system supported by Title IV, Part "C." (DAG)
