New Hampshire Supervisory School Union 58--Experimental Schools project (Groveton, New Hampshire) has developed a rural schools oriented career education program for grades K-12, which incorporates the total community. The program focuses on three major themes: (1) Self Awareness--Who Am I? (kindergarten and grade 1), (2) Awareness of Community…

A supplement to 5 previous bibliographies, this bibliography provides access to some of the latest resource material, research findings, and/or developments in outdoor education. Part I contains 143 citations and abstracts which appeared in "Resources in Education" (RIE) from the January 1975 issue through the December 1975 issue. Part…

The purpose of this study was to produce a list of materials for metric instruction in the elementary school. The Charles H. Taylor School in Boston was used as a laboratory for the collection, study, and evaluation of published metric materials. Problems inherent in the introduction of the metric system in four dissimilar elementary schools were…

The materials included in this document were prepared for the inservice training of Adoption Site personnel by the staff of Project Focus, a Developer/Demonstration site funded by the U.S. Office of Education under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The document is designed to be used as a complete Training Manual. During the past three…

This program, developed as a substitute for the library technology program at Lakeland Community College (Ohio), provides basic skills in the areas of communigraphics, reprographics, communications, telecommunications, audiovisual equipment repair and maintenance, and library technology. Taking into account the current swell in the field of media,…

The Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) is a nonprofit computerized library processing center operating out of Columbus, Ohio. Six years after its incorporation, OCLC is now mainly in the business of operating a shared cataloging system and producing catalog cards designed to meet the needs of each of its member libraries. OCLC also maintains a…

Presented is the guide to the Illinois project entitled "An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Early Education of Handicapped Children Ages 0 - 3 Years" which includes information on funding and public awareness, diagnosis and evaluation, child development-home program, speech and language, structuring the day program, job descriptions and training,…

The lack of staff development, preservice, orientation, and inservice training programs for part-time community college instructors is considered a serious problem. This brief contains two examples of staff development programs for part-time vocational instructors. The first document, Dr. Milo P. Johnson's "Staff Development for Part-Time…

As Ethiopia has designed and implemented numerous intensive (geographically concentrated) and minimum-package rural development programs between 1967-75, the purpose of this monograph is to: (1) trace the evolution of these package projects; (2) analyze package performances; and (3) identify the implications for Ethiopian planners and policy…

Provided are 13 appendixes to a report on the Ability Development Project to identify 4-year-old learning disabled Mexican American children and develop appropriate curricular materials for them. Included are a list of references; a list of external consultants; background and rationale of the Bilingual Early Childhood and Bilingual Kindergarten…

The purpose of the awards program is to initiate a new merger between economics and education by sharing innovative methods with all Illinois teachers for the teaching of personal economics. Personal economics is defined as the study of the individual's decision-making process and his/her participation in economic life in the roles of consumer,…

To test theories presented in the sociology course "Social Policies and Community Power Structure," a team of undergraduate students and their instructor attended a national professional conference. The following are examples of those concepts the students observed in operation at the conference: Social structure affects social policies; the…

After a detailed study of the scholastic retardation of Latin American children in Texas public schools due to the language barrier, the National Office of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) decided that this problem was of the utmost importance and a matter which the organization should work to correct. After obtaining the…

Designed to integrate aesthetic education into the mainstream of an elementary school program,, the curriculum development process and sample units of the Aesthetic Education Program are described in volume one of this final report. The introduction describes the program, the curriculum development process, the curriculum, and the overall goals of…

The final report of the program M.U.S.I.C. (Music--Utilizing Students Investigating Careers) and the music career guide which resulted are presented. The program supplied information regarding careers in and related to music to groups ranging in size from 25 to 100 students, grades 7-9, involved in band and orchestra programs at Cedar Park…