In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh initiated the University External Studies Program (UESP). The program emerged from a recognition of the university's responsibility to provide higher education to those previously unable to attend classes because of family or job responsibilities, geographic isolation, or limited mobility. This paper outlines…

The bibliography of 27 abstracts with their descriptive terms presents documents concerning program descriptions, teaching techniques, and curriculum information for the emotionally disturbed and socially maladjusted. No research reports are included. Author and subject indexes and information for ordering the total document or individual…

The Foreign Curriculum Consultant Program enables selected U.S. educational institutions and organizations to bring specialists from other countries to the United States to assist in planning and developing curriculums in foreign language and area studies. The current program priorities described here indicate which areas are likely to receive…

This document addresses itself to designing and conducting the various aspects of planning a comprehensive environmental education program. The intent is to provide a methodology to be used as a guide for those responsible for developing statewide environmental education programs. Among the various components are background information on the…

The paper traces the progress of the Career Education Project, funded for a 12-month period in the spring of 1973, and designed to enable the chief State school officers and their respective State education agencies to have ready access to information about career education. It was intended that the project would review and make recommendations…

Through Project VIGOR, the David Douglas Public School System in Portland, Oregon addressed itself to the objective of changing a conventional academically oriented general education system into one whose curriculum reflected the needs of all students from the primary through the secondary grades and including post-high school contact and…

A 4-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM OF TEACHER TRAINING FOR DENTAL ASSISTANTS WAS HELD FOR 20 PARTICIPANTS WHO PLANNED TO TEACH IN NEW DENTAL ASSISTING PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAM WAS PLANNED TO DEVOTE HALF THE SUBJECT AREA TO AN ORIENTATION AND A PREPARATION IN SELECTED AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DEEMED ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL TEACHING. THE REMAINING SUBJECT…

An outline of the nature of the timetabling problem, suggesting the kind of requirements that arise in practice and the criteria used to evaluate timetables, was presented. (Author/RK)

The University of New Hampshire teacher education program's implementation of the Dean's Grant program, a federally supported effort to prepare regular classroom teachers to work with students with special needs, is outlined and the change process in the department is discussed. (MSE)

The study analyzed the effects of three inservice strategies on teacher implementation of new curriculum materials. The analysis revealed that inservice instruction improves the implementation of new materials in local vocational education programs. (Author)

The National Diffusion Network (NDN) is a federal program that disseminates information about exemplary educational programs and helps other schools replicate them. Each state has an NDN facilitator who can help interested teachers develop and/or find appropriate curricula. Information on applying to and participating in the NDN is given. (DH)

Lehigh University offered a summer institute for high school teachers titled "The Machine in America: Its Role in the Development of American Society." Provides a summary and evaluation of the 1983 institute, indicates some teaching projects that emerged from it, and offers suggestions for those who might consider similar efforts. (JN)

Argues that remedial programs in reading have gradually lost sight of the original goal of improving classroom reading and that coordinating the program with the core curriculum is not sufficient to achieve curricular congruence. Offers suggestions for achieving congruence between the classroom and the clinic. (FL)

Describes a project to integrate teaching of the separate language arts in three California elementary schools. Includes the philosophical statements of the project; guidelines; activities for before, during, and after reading; and a positive evaluation of the project. (HTH)

Four colleagues at Idaho State University describe how they used the DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) process to figure out what microcomputer competencies vocational educators need. Competencies include developing a personal plan for microcomputer competency; integrating computer-based instruction (CBI) into the vocational curriculum; planning,…