The second volume of Innovative Education Practices presents descriptions of 84 outstanding projects funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The projects are in the areas of School Administration; Special Education; Guidance; Reading, Math, and Academics; Early Childhood Education; Teacher/Staff Development;…

The guide was designed to assist public school personnel in the delivery of educational services to young handicapped children by providing access to information on model programs, increasing knowledge of adopting or adapting educational innovations, suggesting pertinent questions to ask when considering a specific model, and recommending sources…

Drawing on relevant literature, the author of this paper briefly reviews the progress made by the alternative education movement. He provides descriptions of seven successful alternative schools' programs, including magnet schools, a school-without-walls, community schools, and a school-within-a-school. He concludes that alternative education at…

This 206-item annotated bibliography focuses on projects which place the use of new communications technologies within an educational planning framework and which acknowledge the need for communications satellites to be considered as part of a total telecommunications system. Though citations included relate primarily to the uses of…

This directory lists studies completed in Canada between July 1975 and June 1976 by graduate students and staff in university faculties of education, provincial departments of education, school boards, education associations, and other eudcation departments. Approximately 820 studies are listed, with cross references bringing the total number of…

This bibliography was compiled to highlight the literature on police training for police managers who are interested in expanding or improving their training programs. Following a section that describes how to obtain the documents, citations are presented in three sections. The first section, Overview of Police Training, contains citations related…

This catalog contains descriptive abstracts of over 250 regular, handicapped, and guidance projects in Pennsylvania having substantive life during the period January 1, 1974 to June 30, 1975. Title III or Projects to Advance Creativity in Education (PACE) attempts to encourage new ways of teaching by providing needed services for children and…

This collection reports on the Gerontology in Theological Education (GITE) project developed at the Gerontology Center of Georgia State University, which was designed to introduce curriculum on aging into theological education. Part 1 presents an introduction to the project and the results of a survey of 113 seminaries designed to find out what…

The publication, intended to serve as a resource document for industrial arts educators and to function as a tool for stimulating interaction between research and curriculum development personnel, contains abstracts on innovative activities in the area of industrial arts teacher education as well as those relating to other levels of instruction.…

Based on information from professional organizations and individual colleges, this report examines strategies for strengthening the humanities within occupational curricula. The first part of the paper examines the fallacy in the belief that a philosophical antithesis exists between the humanities and other disciplines and discusses the decline of…

This report abstracts and summarizes seventy-eight Indiana research and development projects funded in 1977 with moneys allocated by parts C and D of the 1968 Vocational Education Amendments. The projects are grouped into the subject categories of innovative approaches, needs assessment, performance-based vocational education (PBVE), placement and…

This 1979 supplemental update of "Operation Resource: Abstracts of Current Curriculum Development Activities in Industrial Arts Teacher Education" contains twenty-six two-page abstracts, each including title of activity, department/division, institution/organization, city and state, director(s) of activity, dates initiated and concluded,…

This 1977 supplemental update of "Operation Resource: Abstracts of Current Curriculum Development Activities in Industrial Arts Teacher Education," (ED 126 265) contains twenty-six two-page abstracts, each including title of activity, department/division, institution/organization, city and state, director(s) of activity, dates initiated and…

Presented in the annotated bibliography are 123 print and nonprint references (1962 to 1975) which document innovating efforts for reintegrating mentally retarded people into the community. It is explained that the references have been compiled from mail surveys, computer searches of national information systems, library handsearches and a…

Reviews documents available in the ERIC system which describe innovative and easily accessible lifelong learning programs in relation to policies affecting lifelong learning, educational information centers, cooperative arrangements with business, flexible scheduling, informing the public, and experiential learning. (JM)