A two week survey was conducted to: (1) investigate the state of developmental book activity in Laos, (2) determine the priority of Laos's book needs, (3) develop program recommendations to meet the needs and (4) formulate regional recommendations. Recommendations on materials and methods needed are: (1) continuation of textbook distribution on a…

Evergreen State College is an unprecedented flexible, sophisticated educational instrument designed to avoid depersonalization. Students are treated as responsible adults and are expected to work closely, as colleagues, with their teachers. Curriculum planning reflects the belief that graduates would change their career pattern and life styles at…

The problem addressed in this paper is to compare the schools identified as participating in Title I, 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act programs, with those identified as not participating in Title I, with regard to percentage of pupils on welfare, number of target group pupils, percentage of pupils reading below grade level, percentage of…

Intended for teaching applications programing for libraries and information centers, this volume is a graded workbook or text supplement containing typical practice problems, suggested solutions, and brief analyses which emphasize programing efficiency. The computer language used is Programing Language/One (PL/1) because it adapts readily to…

This book presents curriculum materials for Spanish bilingual programs from the pre-school level through the 12th grade. Subject areas include language arts, social studies, geography, mathematics, and science. Also listed are encyclopedias, records, music books, and educational games. An alphabetical list of suppliers is included. (SK)

This booklet presents descriptions of 3 bilingual programs funded by Title III, ESEA: The East Harlem Pre-School, the Bilingual Elementary School Program, and the Bilingual Resource Center. Program objectives are included. (SK)

The Leisure Reading Selection Guide is part of an effort by the Appalachian Adult Education Cetner to aid librarians and adult basic education personnel in the selection of materials for undereducated adults. It is a listing of those leisure reading materials most frequently used by adult learners in four Appalachian Adult Education Center…

This document presents Part Three (pages 673-930) of the joint hearings held May 27 and June 16, 1971 before two subcommittees of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. The hearings were designed to amend the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to provide for a comprehensive child development program in the department of Health, Education and…

The main objective of this program was to increase pupil achievement, library use, and interest in all areas of language arts, with instructional emphasis placed on individual attention and small group work. The program appears to have had some measure of success in achieving its objectives, and the teachers, librarian, observer and principal were…

The Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) of the Federal Council for Science and Technology has responsibility for the discussion of federal issues and problems relating to scientific and technical communication within the Government sector. Consideration of information problems on a national level began in 1958 and led to the…

Nineteen documents on various aspects of information science are included in this introductory book of readings. The documents were selected because they are relatively easy to read for beginning students and are likely to be useful for a number of years. The documents cover the literature from 1958 to 1970. They are: (1) Information Science: What…

The Information Retrieval Television (IRTV) system was a unique experimental media program initiated in several Ottawa schools in the fall of 1968. The program was designed to allow teachers to select televised audiovisual programs for their classes when and where they choose. This arrangement freed teachers from broadcast schedules and the…

THE FINDINGS OF A PILOT STUDY OF THE PERSONAL USE OF BOOKS BY ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THEIR READING ARE PRESENTED. CHAPTER I, "READING--A PERSONAL VIEW," PRESENTS EXCERPTS OF INTERVIEWS WITH BUSINESSMEN, HOUSEWIVES, AND STUDENTS OF THE CHICAGO AREA WHO WERE CHOSEN AT RANDOM AND WHO WERE WILLING TO…

The State University of New York comprises four formal coordinating areas for the development of regional contacts and interinstitutional and regional cooperation. The four coordinating areas have been operating since 1972 and the differing patterns of cooperation that have emerged are outlined as are the formal activities of each area. Only one…

In light of changing trends in education since the 1960s, archives and manuscript collections are becoming more useful as primary educational resources on both secondary and higher education levels. One reason for this is the recent emphasis on inquiry learning with the subsequent development of collections of evidence, data, and documents for…