This book addresses the task of matching books to students' reading levels, or book leveling. It assists teachers in making informed choices about appropriate leveling systems, recommends which books can be used in instruction, and suggests how book text level and student reading abilities may correspond. The book will help classroom teachers and…

The State of Alaska Department of Education has created a handbook to give assistance and direction to its school districts and communities in determining the suitability of various building sites for educational facilities planning. This handbook establishes a set of basic site selection elements and offers suggested evaluation criteria for…

Listing 81 chapter books for children published between 1996-1999, this annotated bibliography gives interest level ratings, reading level ratings, a brief summary, and theme assignments. The 13 theme categories listed in alphabetical order include Adventure-Survival, Autobiography-Biography, Death, Divorce, Good Reading, Handicaps, Historical…

This study examined the feasibility of ordering an e-book (electronic book) to replace a lost or brittle book in the Kent State University (Ohio) library. The study checked a representative sample of 234 books lost during July to December 2000 to see the availability of the book in e-form, as well as the cost of the print versus the e-book…

Micronesia is an ethno-geographical grouping of over 2000 islands spread out over 7,000,000 square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean and includes the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam,…

This guide contains step-by-step information needed in the hiring of a college counselor. It begins with information on how to screen applications for the job. Next is a checklist on preparing for the interview, followed by a number of warning signals the interviewer should watch for. Examples are included of specific questions to ask at the…

This paper describes the use of unbiased stories featuring children with disabilities as a part of presenting a multicultural perspective in elementary schools. It emphasizes that the inclusion of a multicultural perspective will help teach social acceptance rather than separation, and laments that current children's books about disabilities tell…

For many working parents, hiring a caregiver to work in their home is the best solution for their child care and household needs. In-home care can be tailored to individual family needs, and, in the case of multiple children, can be the most convenient and cost-effective option. This handbook is designed to guide you through the process of finding…

The educational system is a reflection of the society in which it functions. Curriculum and Instructional philosophies are tied to public concerns and problems. For example, concern over technological superiority was expressed in the mathematics and science curricula of the late fifties and early sixties, and concern for the education of the whole…

Author challenges the validity of the practice of ability grouping and segregating students according to their achievement or potential. (GB)

The author reports on a study in which the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey was used to test the hypothesis that there are significant differences between the inventoried vocational interests of elementary counselors, junior high counselors, college counselors, vocational counselors, and administrators of guidance. The purpose is to help provide…

The present paper reports some experiments designed to determine the role of selectivity in identifying speech sounds, rather than in selecting which of two streams of partially analysed speech sounds will receive further processing. (Author)

The approach of the present experiment is a developmental one in that it attempts to relate the preferences of children for certain selected stimuli, letters and letter-like shapes, to their age and experience. (Author)

This study analyzes the relationship between counselor effectiveness as defined by scores on the Indexes of Communication and Discrimination and intelligence as measured by undergraduate grade point average (GPA) and Miller Analogy Test (MAT) scores. Subjects were 51 master's degree candidates in an introductory counseling course. Their scores on…

The number of books by and about blacks has increased, but there has been no corresponding increase in the publication of reviews and indexes for these new books. Among other things, librarians should pressure reviewing media to index and review more books by and about blacks. (JB)