This paper introduces a National Institute of Education (NIE) project that is developing new methods for assessing layman's goals for education. The project also compares those goals with the goals of the professional educators. After elaborating the rationale that has guided NIE's studies of education goals, the paper describes the assumptions…

This paper is intended to be a guide for constructive and helpful participation by parents and citizens in inquiry about and involvement in the selection of educational materials. The paper argues for a systematic, step-by-step selection process, sensitive to local needs and concerned with high quality materials that should be divided into (1)…

A major goal of education should be to prepare every young person leaving school to enter higher education or to enter useful and rewarding work. This is the goal of Project Trident, a comprehensive career education program being developed at Lincoln Community High School, Illinois. The project, in its planning year, is directed toward secondary…

The project evaluated in this report is seen to be generalizable to other high schools. The program provides an unusual opportunity for high school students to have a variety of experiences in a wide range of health occupations. The evidence indicates that an allied health curriculum in the secondary schools can produce commendable educational…

This report describes a pilot program set up to test the feasibility of a student out-of-school tutoring service for 4th and 5th graders as a means of providing remedial instruction for potential dropouts. For testing purposes, a small-scale 5-session program was set up, using as tutors 9th through 12th grade volunteer students, from a local…

The study investigates on a pilot basis employer and union reactions to selected foreign-inspired changes in the American apprenticeship system. Recent developments in European apprenticeship are reviewed, and possible policies based on these foreign developments are proposed. The reactions of employers to these policies are assessed through a…

Information on an atypical 1966-67 Distributive Education pilot program in New Mexico was given. The program was unique since one instructor conducted this program in two schools which were in separate rural districts (Dexter and Hagerman). Since both communities were primarily agricultural, with small student populations, the cost of such a…

In October 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all dual school districts must be merged immediately into unified systems. The Southern City School system, N.C., developed a desegregation plan which was considered a model of compliance with constitutional requirements, this plan being implemented with little or no community opposition despite…

This document reports a four-year multidisciplinary pilot project in which students worked with low-income urban residents to investigate possible inequities in consumer prices and credit. This project integrated classroom learning and practical experience. During the first quarter of each school year, a core research study group was formed.…

This anthology of articles and speeches by associates of the Contemporary Music Project traces the development of the theory of comprehensive musicianship during the first ten years (1959-1969) of the Project activities, providing a history of the program. Part I details the initial music education program--the Young Composers Project through…

The report interprets and summarizes the findings of thirteen public schools in Columbus, Ohio, each of which evaluated its social studies curriculum using the Project PRIMES model. The model, supported by a field service unit of four evaluation specialists, included instrumentation consisting of four components: staff development, curriculum and…

The purpose of the research was to investigate the effectiveness of three pilot courses entitled "The Development and Early Education of the Mentally Handicapped Child," which were offered specifically for personnel in day services centers for the mentally handicapped in rural Wisconsin. Pre- and post-tests were administered to the students…

This paper is a discussion of a 4-year research and development project dealing with the cluster concept approach to vocational education. The concept is a form of vocational education that prepares the individual to enter into gainful employment in a number of occupations which have sufficient commonalities in human requirements and kinds of work…

Recognizing the need to provide classroom teachers with teaching aids usable in career development, a federally subsidized project was conducted by the University of Minnesota during the summer of 1968. Resulting from this conference were teacher formulated behavioral objectives and activities that should prove useful in needed program…

This report discusses the problems of alternative schools in general and describes the experiences of two public alternative high schools -- the Cambridge Pilot School (a "school-within-a-school" in Cambridge, Massachusetts), and Metro High School (a "school without walls" in Chicago). The report (1) describes what goes on inside these two…