This report presents a master's degree program for the teaching of underprivileged children. It offers a program consisting of preservice involvement with the disadvantaged, informal seminars, teaching and camp counseling, fellowship to acquaint the faculty with the poor, sensitivity groups to enhance teacher effectiveness, and an evaluation…

The 1972-73 school year Project VITALITY is described to provide coordinated work study career development for students in grades seven through 12 or equivalent ages who are legally assigned to the special programs, students in the Teen Mothers program, and those students dismissed from the educable mentally retarded program after August 1, 1969.…

Described is the community educational resource center (CERC), defined to be a multipurpose, community-based facility that delivers a coordinated system of special educational resources, human and nonhuman, to instructional and administrative personnel confronted by educationally handicapped children. Covered in the description are program need in…

Described is the creativity center program, part of Project Gifted, an educational program for gifted intermediate grade children. The report pertains specifically to the Warwick Public Schools in Rhode Island. The program is described to give gifted children opportunity and encouragement in their academic and personal development. The program…

This report examines legislation proposed by the Nixon administration to (1) make available to employed workers a new type of personal retirement plan having tax-deferral advantages, (2) apply pre-retirement vesting requirements to the private pension system, and (3) broaden tax-deferred retirement plans presently available to the self-employed…

The goal of Project IMPACT is to provide the U.S. Army with an effective, efficient, and economical computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system in a total system framework. This paper reviews the a) reasons for establishment of Project IMPACT, b) nature of the project and its relevance to needs of the Army, c) reasons why the Army needs to develop…

A set of individualized instructional materials dealing with subject matter of varying familiarity to college students was developed and widely used by a number of investigators. In their full version, these materials contained content with which subjects had a fair amount of prior familiarity, and materials with which college-age students had…

A catalog of student-computer dialogues for physics teaching at the University of California at Irvine lists twenty different programs. Signing on and off are explained, then sixteen nongraphic and four graphic dialogues are listed with author, student level and information content described. (RB)

This pamphlet enumerates the goals and accomplishments of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relating to standards-setting and enforcement, research and monitoring, technical and financial assistance, manpower development, citizens technology assessment, and review of environmental impact statements. Also discussed are EPA responsibilities…

A summary of the proceedings of the conference of experts convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and by the International Union of Geological Sciences introduces a discussion of the need for a standard terminology and for the collection of compatible global data to enable progress to be made in…

This study was a formative evaluation of an evolving preservice teacher education program in secondary mathematics education at The Ohio State University. The first quarter of the program was an intensive block of pre-student teaching experiences, including four weeks at an inner city school and four weeks at a suburban school along with campus…

Described is a computer program written in FORTRAN IV which offers considerable flexibility in generating simulated data pertinent to education and educational psychology. The user is allowed to specify the number of samples, data sets, and variables, together with the population means, standard deviations and intercorrelations. In addition the…

This document discusses state-designed workshops which have provided training in behavior analysis techniques to parents. Through information gained from bimonthly meetings and frequent monitoring by workshop leaders and graduate students enrolled in the Special Education Area of the University of Vermont, parents have developed and implemented…

Primary sources, such as public documents and personal statements, as well as periodical accounts and books, form the basis for this historical and analytical study of the National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Program. In the first chapter, the condition of professional theatre during the mid-1960s is discussed. The organization and structure of…

An emerging secondary school curriculum focus is on the study of the people and places closest to students themselves--their own families and the communities in which they live. These studies are popular because they start with the lives of students; help define students' self-concepts; focus student attention on areas for effective social action;…