The report evaluates the Texas Education Service Center bilingual program provided in Region I during 1970-71. The 3-year program, for Mexican American students having little or no knowledge of the English language, was designed to enroll students at the kindergarten level and carry them through grade 2. Program components included a kindergarten…

Project TALENT, a 20 year, national longitudinal study of the development of youth in to adults, is described. Begun in 1960, only the 5 year follow-up data is currently available. As part of the overall project, an exploratory study is in progress to examine factors which might influence the development of ideal or desired family size preferences…

Presented are resource guidelines in recreation and physical activities for day care center educational programs. Seven monthly themes are discussed in terms of motor development, creative arts and crafts, games, music and rhythmics, communication, problem solving, relaxation, and drama, where applicable. The goals of self awareness are knowledge…

Numerous variables and their myriad interrelationships are acknowledged to account for the process by which a boy becomes socialized and ultimately finds his occupational position in the stratification system. This research report seeks to put together this set of links into a coherent model of the process. Four cohorts of Fort Wayne, Indiana…

The overall social studies curriculum for the three- and four-year-olds consists of an aggregate of activities focusing upon several key processes that are useful in understanding the components of human social behavior: socialization, interdependence, social control, and continuity and change. This unit contains activities that focus on the…

The Powell River Project proposed to design a curriculum with the Canadian urban environment as a major focus, using elementary teachers as developers (ED 055 018). This progress report contains individual summaries from seven elementary teachers, outlining the process of determining the children's knowledge of self and of the world around them.…

The goal of civic education, as discussed in this paper, is responsible political activism. Although the word activism tends to conjure a negative image of a revolutionary student body for some, the term is used here to express active participation in the decision making process, respect for others' opinions, and upholding one's beliefs. In this…

Profiles of selected Knox County families, patterns of family behavior, belief and value systems, and participation in community action programs were studied. A purposive sample of 131 intact families was studied to discover features of the family life styles of 3 categorical types: 39 participating poor (PP) families, 56 non-participating poor…

The purpose of this subproject is to guide students to meet and interact with individuals from the many subcultures in a community (see ED 055 011). This progress report of the second year's activities includes information on the process of curriculum development, the materials developed, evaluation, roles of supporting agencies, behavioral…

There has been increasing pressure in recent years for a more realistic portrayal of societal complexities and problems in elementary and secondary social studies materials--especially textbooks. The author discusses in this paper a research project in which a large sample of social studies texts in wide use in grades three, five, and seven are…

The expression of individual freedom and fear of the impairment of that freedom, two themes frequently found in modern American literature, can also be applied to a discussion of educational history. Today's "revisionist" historians condemn the progressive of Dewey's persuasion, who sacrificed the individual to socialization and the…

Investigated was the effectiveness of various reinforcement contingencies in diminishing social withdrawal in children, which is defined in terms of low rates of social interaction. Ss were three socially withdrawn first and second graders in three different regular classes, as determined by scores on the Walker Problem Behavior Identification…

The author presents a fully annotated bibliography of 80 items relating to the subject of ghostwriting of public addresses and other forms of persuasive communication. Most of the items deal with ghostwriting in the areas of political persuasion and public relations, although some general entries are included. Topics of the material range from…

The 1970 Summer Program for Mentally Retarded Young Adults Occupational Training Centers program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was designed to serve the summer educational, prevocational, and social needs of approximately 170 retarded adolescents and young adults. The general objectives of the project were…

The content and components that can be included in the social studies curriculum are dependent upon how the discipline is defined. If social studies is not simply an offshoot of social sciences, but, rather a required general education program concerned with the preparation of citizens for reflective participation in a democratic society and with…