The Asian Newcomer Parent Program (ANPP), was intended to provide newly immigrated parents some of the same opportunities as their children to learn English, to understand American mores and lifestyles, and to transcend some of the cultural and communication barriers within the family unit. The project is described in the second-year report, which…

The guide, developed to assist administrators and teachers involved in starting and administering public service career education programs, suggests guidelines for utilizing the six curriculum guides contained in the Public Service Occupations Curriculum Project. An introductory chapter discusses public service careers, the career education…

The proceedings of the conference on outstanding research and curriculum activities conducted by the various State research coordinating units opens with William W. Stevenson's brief examination of alternative research efforts. The remainder of the first half of the document consists of abstracts of the 15 presentations at the conference sessions…

A selection of 26 operational linkage programs are described in the supplemental document, providing career education practitioners with examples of program development and operation in the area of school-work relationships. The programs are grouped under four categories and in terms of their relationship between education and work: (1)…

The trainer-directed manual describes a 45-minute school staff orientation session of not more than 30 participants discussing why people work and the influential role school can play in formulating student perceptions of work. The purpose, activities, outcomes, duration, setting, resources needed, and presession activities and preparation are…

This report presents an evaluation of the Louisiana state-wide program of French instruction at the primary level for the academic year 1974-75, the third year of the program's implementation. The focus of the evaluation is on the attainment of linguistic objectives and the measurement of the community's support of the program. The program…

The document reports on the 1974-75 statewide field test of 13 Arizona-developed career education units; it contains unit-specific implementation data. The units were implemented in 10 projects in different parts of Arizona in order to determine their usability in classrooms throughout the State; units meeting all implementation criteria were then…

Dedicated to aiding teachers and curriculum developers in making social studies curricula responsive to maintaining the dignity and worth of students, this resource book is the product of the National Council for the Social Studies' Sexism and Social Justice Committee. The book is for social studies teachers who want to avoid sexism in their…

The document presents Louisiana's 1973 State Plan for the development of career education. It is intended that State guides will be developed to improve all aspects of the daily curriculum and that revisions will be made to the "Handbook For School Administrators." Further, preservice and inservice programs will be established for…

The history of the High School Geography Project is presented. The paper is divided into five topics. (1) "Search for Direction" traces the project from its origins in 1961 to the emergence of a curriculum development model. (2) "The Elaboration of the Curriculum Model and the Evolution of the Development Process Model"…

This booklet, containing monographs on aspects of multiethnic curriculum in the schools, is intended to aid teachers to keep in touch with some of the strategies and criteria in planning and executing multiethnic programs. An article on new curricula for multiethnic schools notes that most of the urban and suburban schools are racially and…

The report covers career education activities at four Pennsylvania project sites (Ebensberg, Crawford County, Philadelphia, and McKeesport): an elementary, a junior high, a K-12, and a 10-14 component. Project TIMES (Temporally Individualized Modular Education Scheduling) was incorporated in the 10-14 component at an area vocational-technical…

The report on the 1974-75 statewide field test of 13 Arizona-developed career education curriculum units presents information concerning the overall implementation rationale and a summary of resulting data. The field test was conducted to determine the units' usability in classrooms throughout the State. Units meeting all implementation criteria…

The responsiveness of Georgia's universities, senior, and junior colleges to the state's students is reported. Many new programs were added, modified, or expanded, and were implemented to keep up-to-date with requirements for new types and emphases of instruction, research, and public service that reflect rapidly changing technology and economic…

This yearbook is a compilation of educational practices recently implemented by member schools of the Associated Public School Systems. The practices included are organized into sections concerning communication, curriculum, staff, organization, and special-client programs. Forty-three programs describing a wide range of educational activities are…