One of a series of papers devoted to new ideas in education, this study reflects on the question of educational change. Specifically, changes in secondary education in Canada which appear relevant to the emergence of operating systems of continuing education are described. The first part of the study examines the principles of educational…

An occasional, independent publication of the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Asia contains reviews of recent publications and studies, brief reports on programs and projects, and notes on Asian documents related to education. The first section of reviews presents reports on school dropouts in Malaysia, changing priorities for education in…

The next 25 years will see dramatic changes in the U.S. Arctic and sub-Arctic. Some major forces generating these changes are national energy demands, Alaska oil and gas development, environmental conservation pressures, and the reallocation of over 200 million acres of U.S. public land among Federal, State, and private interests. To provide…

At a seminar on Compensatory Early Childhood Education held in Jerusalem in the fall of 1972 the idea of compensatory education and its viability in cross cultural terms was examined in conjunction with a critical review of the whole notion of social and cultural disadvantage. Twenty-two participants from international governmental organizations…

Volume III, Number 5 of this newsletter, which is published monthly during the school year and disseminates ideas and suggestions concerning innovations and problem solutions for secondary social sciences, focuses on flexible, individualized social science in the high school. A program, its principles, and suggestions for syllabi are outlined as…

A description is provided of the work accomplished in the course of a Title III funded project at the Pueblo Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Part I of the report describes the function of the instructional materials center in a school with an open-class learning center design. Part II deals with the coding system created to retrieve…

A 1 year preschool program and a summer elementary program in a model cities area southt to detect and remediate children's learning disabilities, and to evaluate remedial techniques. Thirty-three perceptually handicapped preschool children took a battery of eight tests, and daily received remediation through fine and gross motor training, and in…

The efforts and experiences of some day care centers and other preschool groups in trying to free children from sex roles are discussed. The booklet is organized under the following topics: (1) teaching sex role stereotypes--the ways adults consciously and unconsciously teach them; (2) confronting children's acts of exclusion--experiences in…

An Interim Program offers high school students the opportunity to expand their outlook on education, school function, and community resources through a two-week series of courses between semesters. The courses are grouped under two headings: Interim Course Offerings (Academic and Avocational) and Career Research Laboratory Program. The…

The seven years since the enactment of Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act provided a unique opportunity for social scientists, educators, and others to attempt to find answers to unanswered questions about the teaching-learning process, especially in relation to minority group children and youth and to students from low…

This report describes school and departmental changes that supported newly stated goals in a junior high school that departed radically from its traditional program. New goals for this particular school focused on the individual, and program agents were charged with helping each student (1) become his own agent, (2) become personally involved in…

The first booklet of the series Career Development in Head Start gives an overview of career development in this program. Career development, in which training is built into a job and is designed to lead to more responsible and better-paying jobs, involves task analysis, entry level positions, career ladders, training and education, released time,…

This booklet describes an elementary school program at Anstey Latimer Primary School in Leicestershire, England, that used the natural environment as the focus for its studies. Students were 7 to eleven years old, and each class had two or three ages grouped together. Students were allowed to pursue whatever projects interested them. The projects…

This article describes a Title III project which attempts to introduce principles of child development into teaching in the elementary school in a practical and comprehensive manner, using actual experiences from the classroom as examples. The strategies provide a general set of guidelines for approaching individual children based on emotional and…

Described in this publication is a comprehensive career education program which begins in Grade 1 and continues through Grade 12. Specifically developed for a rural, economically depressed area, the program includes a structuring of basic subjects around the theme of career opportunities and requirements in the world of work. The four segments of…