Intended to highlight challenges facing academic library managers and to review current activities and programs, this annual report of the Office of Management Studies (OMS) of the Association of Research Libraries describes 1978 activities and programs and considers 1979 priorities. In particular, the activities of four core programs are…

In this paper, principals and other persons of innovating middle schools, junior high schools, and senior high schools associated with the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Individualized Schooling describe the most interesting features of their schools and respond to a features checklist. They provide the names of contact persons in…

Testimony relative to the Vocational Education Improvement Act Amendments of 1967 as given in two committee sessions is presented in the form of verbatim oral questions and answers and prepared statements. Major prepared statements were by (1) Leon M. Lessinger, (2) Maurice J. Daly, (3) Beatrice Pressley, (4) Jacob J. Kaufman, and (5) Leon P.…

This document summarizes in table form all the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, projects in Wyoming in fiscal year 1968. Listed are the school districts, type of project, funding, superintendent, and beginning and ending dates. (NH)

This is the sixth annual report of the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition. Its purpose is to provide a continuing study of the child nutrition programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The Council reports that implementation of the Five State Nutrition Education Project is underway.…

The history of the development of the minority program funded through the National Science Foundation is traced in this paper. Types of activities supported by the program are listed, problems addressed by the program are described briefly, and future program development is discussed. (DT)

This brief booklet outlines the goals and rationale behind the Navy Alcoholism Prevention Program (NAPP). The program is built upon the assumption that alcoholism is a preventable and treatable illness. More than half the directors, counselors, and support staff at NAPP are sober alcoholics whose primary objectives involve aiding other alcoholics…

This document describes the East Caroline Islands lying in the Ponape District and the development of a Teacher Corps inservice program to aid public school teachers in professional development. Program objectives were to: (1) up-grade basic and professional skills of Micronesian interns; (2) implement a University Without Walls baccalaureate…

This bibliography provides an overview of the literature on: the purposes of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; the educational community's hopes, fears, and expectations regarding ESEA; descriptions of ESEA programs and projects; and evaluations of ESEA. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to be illustrative of the…

Respite care for children with severe handicaps and their families has been developed to serve the rural, sparsely populated areas of upstate Wisconsin. Since its' inception, the program has provided a necessary outlet to the families of 51 children at a cost of $34.70 per day. The basic elements of the program lend themselves to being replicated…

Businesses have a great deal of expertise that could be useful to school districts. Business acumen can be used to make the educational system more efficient and effective or to make organizational and systems changes. An administrative school study can be undertaken by study teams of business personnel to determine problems in the district and…

Four basic approaches to the manual organization of information which concentrate on information storage and subject retrieval are described. Uniterm and Optical Coincidence are indexing systems, Keysort is an indexing tool as well as a storage and retrieval method, and Filing is used in conjunction with the above systems to store and retrieve…

This newsletter briefly describes activities, projects, and publications in the areas of science education, mathematics education, and general educational in Great Britain. Short articles on activities in Ghana, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Argentina are included along with descriptions of ten other international activities. (EB)

The report outlines a K-12 career education program planned and implemented for 18 months. Six goals and objectives were designed to produce career exploration and practical occupational experiences, an instructional model, student and community counseling and placement services, and inservice education. The procedures followed in developing the…

Careers Program-Outreach is a project funded by the Vocational Education Act whose purpose is to expand career options for students, particularly the disadvantaged, and to serve as an incentive to school staffs to innovate and implement career development programs. The major emphases of this program are: (1) to assist counselors to develop…