A survey of college speech communication programs was conducted to determine the size and scope of the combined study of communication and law. Data from 117 of 200 randomly sampled institutions were used for analysis. A substantial majority of the institutions offered or were planning to offer courses concerned with the relationship between…

SOME GUIDELINES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING TEACHER EDUCATION IN ORDER TO MEET THE NEEDS OF SEVERELY DISABLED LEARNERS ARE PRESENTED. THE SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE IMPROVING PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR TEACHERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SUPERVISORS, AND COUNSELORS AT ALL LEVELS. TRAINING SHOULD INCLUDE THE STUDY OF DYSLEXIA AND THE PREPARATION OF A PILOT…

THE 14 PAPERS APPEARING IN THIS REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS ARE--(1) "LEADERSHIP FOR INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION," (2) "SOME IMPLICATIONS OF FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION," (3) "OLD AND NEW FRONTIERS," (4) "FRONTIERS, REAL AND MYTHICAL," (5) "CHALLENGES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION," (6)…

This booklet consists of introductory statements to prospective students in the University of Nairobi's Postgraduate Diploma in Curriculum Development Program, and provides an outline of the course content of the nine month program. The course is divided into three phases: correspondence, residential, and field work. During the correspondence…

This report, based on statistics gathered from the first statewide census of Illinois public secondary school course offerings, enrollments, and cocurricular activities, focuses on English language arts courses. Among the highlights from the report are the following: (1) Illinois junior and senior high schools typically rely on general, grade…

Seventy tenth grade English students participated in a study comparing the effectiveness of two composition curricula for improving writing skills. The investigator-designed writing curriculum was based on R. M. Gagnes' hierarchy of intellectual skills (verbal chains, discriminations, concrete concepts, defined concepts, rules, and higher-order…

Based on data drawn from a survey of English department chairpersons, a profile was constructed of the typical two-year college in the southeastern United States in its teaching of American literature. The data revealed that the typical school had a small number of students enrolled in American literature survey courses and that teachers tended to…

NINETY FIRST GRADE CHILDREN WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM 3 SCHOOLS (WHICH EACH USED A DIFFERENT ARITHMETIC PROGRAM) TO PARTICIPATE IN A STUDY TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF 2 VARIABLES ON THE CHILDREN'S ABILITY TO SOLVE ADDITION PROBLEMS. THE VARIABLES WERE (1) THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF AN EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIER PRECEDING THE START OF THE PROBLEM,…

KaleidoSCOPE, under Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, disseminates articles dealing with current topics and trends in education of particular interest to educators. This edition is the result of a series of programs dealing with learning and the underachiever. Dealing with the definition of the underachiever was John Holt,…

Forty-eight Social Learning Curriculum (SLC--an innovative educational program for mentally handicapped children) administrators were surveyed to compare SLC programs, their administrators' personal and professional characteristics, and substative responsibilities with special education programs and administrators in general. The results of a…

Presented is a report that includes condensations of papers presented on interdisciplinary curricula, evaluation and dissemination and of the reactions to these papers. The full papers and reactions are in the appendix. The report also includes the highlights of discussion sessions at which small groups reported. The final section summarizes the…

The installation of the SWRL/Ginn Kindergarten Program on a wide-scale national basis provided an occasion to test the claim that important instructional outcomes may be attained reliably in a variety of school settings with a wide variety of pupils through the use of a systematically developed educational product. Characteristics of the…

The Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning is proposing the development of an individualized curriculum-instructional program in environmental education. To determine broad national needs in environmental education a survey was conducted of both schools and curriculum coordinators. The survey involved these questions: (1)…

This volume examines two facets of curriculum research and development. The first part is concerned with the teacher and his day-to-day problems in the classroom and is presented here with an account of the way linguistics came to have a particular shape and focus in the field of English. The second part continues with an examination of the…

This publication contains texts of papers presented at the National Research Coordinating Units Directors' Conference, which was attended by 65 participants representing Research Coordinating Units (RCU), state and federal education departments, universities, and other organizations. Presentations were: (1) "New Vistas in Research," by M. Essex…