Information about exchange programs between the United States and nearly 130 countries and territories for students, research scholars, teachers, lecturers, and international visitors is presented in this report. Programs are discussed in general terms by geographical area. A review of the international visitors program including foreign leaders,…

The National Humanities Faculty (NHF) was established by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1968 to improve the teaching of the humanities in the American schools. To fulfill its obligation, the NHF conducts a program in which humanists--university professors, creative artists, and others--work with selected schools who have applied for…

The one and one-half year Raleigh County Career Education project involved over 9,000 students in grades K-12. The project's goals were directed toward recognition of the importance of: career preparation, relevancy of education in career preparation, effective teaching methods, and continuing career assistance for former students. Specific…

The long term aims of the Growth and Structure of Cities major at Bryn Mawr College are to introduce into the curriculum an interdisciplinary program which builds on existing strengths within the college and which offers students the opportunity to study the changing character of the contemporary urban environment in an historical, aesthetic, and…

"Educational Futuristics," a pilot instructional module for a foundations of education course, resulted in the compilation of these guidelines. The aim of educational futuristics noted in the introduction is to increase student awareness of trends in the environment and of the impact of choices in the future, as well as to equip students…

Brief research monographs produced by The Demonstration Center for Language Handicapped (LH) Children are collected. The monographs address the following topics: the historical background and objectives of the language center; the effects of support personnel on the academic performance of LH children; the incidence of language handicaps among…

An outline is provided of the Wyoming State Library's annual plan for the 1974 fiscal year. Major programs are listed as being developed in the following areas: 1) to assist all Wyoming public libraries in reaching minimum state goals; 2) to strengthen statewide workshops, institutes, and inservice training programs which are calculated to upgrade…

The Industrial Vocational Training Scheme project resulted from a study made by a United Nations mission which recommended procedures for the development of West Irian. The purpose of the project reported was to assist the government in establishing an industrial vocational training scheme consisting of a training department within the Office of…

This Metropolitan Educational Center in the Arts (MECA) project report details activities directed toward exploration, implementation, and evaluation of new and exemplary approaches to education in the arts in the City of St. Louis and the surrounding five-county region. The MECA projects described fall generally into three categories: 1) Projects…

This volume consists of 29 appendixes. Included are: lists of local business contacts, largest employers and the local advisory committee; write-ups of program evaluations; enrollment statistics and follow up of graduates with regard to employment; dropout statistics and description; special counselor duties; and a statement regarding…

The University of Colorado developed a modular undergraduate educational psychology program. Its objective was to teach concepts critical to effective teaching in a manner consistent with the flexible scheduling of the new secondary teacher education program. Researchers isolated 12 basic topics and surveyed relevant literature. Some 27 modules…

"Redesigning the Community" is the ninth grade unit of the University City school district program known as Arts in General Education, a K-12 series of special instructional units taught as part of the regular subject areas of language arts and social studies. In social studies the main focus is on environmental design and planning. In…

METCO is a nonprofit organization that provides screening, placement, and busing services for Negro children (K-12) from predominantly black schools in Boston to predominantly white schools in 16 of the cities and towns surrounding Boston. All of the students, representing a variety of academic, socioeconomic, and family backgrounds, volunteer for…

Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) is a system designed to provide a curriculum defined in terms of performance objectives, test items to measure student performance on each objective, a set of comparable test forms to evaluate performance, testing throughout the period of the course, computerized analysis and reporting of results after…

Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) is a system designed to provide a curriculum defined in terms of performance objectives, test items to measure student performance on each objective, a set of comparable test forms to evaluate performance, testing throughout the period of course, computerized analysis and reporting of results after test…