The major purpose of this project was to plan, implement, and evaluate a high school one-semester experimental curriculum stressing the communicative aspects of the arts and humanities as a means of student self-discovery and realization. The curriculum consisted of 4 major unit, composed of individual study modules, on popular media and on…

This document contains brief summaries of 27 educational projects submitted to the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) by the Model School Division of the District of Columbia public school system. These projects were financed by OEO and non-governmental funds. Each summary presents the purpose of the project, its location, the number of pupils…

Two American history courses taught by different multimedia methods were compared. Each course was semi-automated in order to free the instructor's time for question and answer periods. One experimental group of junior college students took the course using FM radio, an illustrated syllabus, and student response sheets. Another group took the same…

Program objectives were to develop children's abilities to deal with everyday and school related problems, and to make them more inner-directed by (1) developing a positive self-image, (2) increasing sensory and perceptual acuity, (3) improving language skills, and (4) improving problem-solving and concept formation abilities. Forty-five…

The long-range objective of the Central Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory (CAREL) dance program was to develop children's ability to solve problems in movement terms and to express emotional involvement and creative ideas through dance. Workshops were conducted for 15 non-specialist teachers to explore the concepts of space, time, and…

This report covers the 3rd year in which vocational programs and related activities were supported by the Vocational Education Act of 1963. A program overview presents vocational education, with a fiscal 1967 enrollment of 7,047,501 persons, as the largest component in the Nation's array of organized efforts to reduce unemployment and eliminate…

The complex nature of grammar and its relevance to teaching today are explored in the light of modern linguistics. Reviewing the development and fundamental theory of transformational generative grammar, the author points out its substantial merit and also its failure to be understood as exemplary grammatical analysis of language rather than…

The purpose of this study was to relate the occupational psychology of high school principals to the emergent problems of urban secondary education. Research was conducted through extended personal interviews and a series of seminars on topics relevant to secondary education. Individually, the principals emerged as embattled administrators.…

The collection of readings on the slow learner contains articles on understanding the educable adolescent, the interdisciplinary approach, organizing experience units for the educable mentally handicapped, operant conditioning techniques to establish motivation, and curriculum ideas. Included are discussions of developmental schedules of…

Three studies were conducted to develop and evaluate a diagnostically based curriculum for disadvantaged preschool children. The population consisted of 139 white and 4 Negro Appalachian 5-year-olds from the lowest socioeconomic class, who scored from 50 to 85 on the 1960 Stanford-Binet L-M Intelligence Scale. One of the 3 groups organized…

A course taught at Notre Dame on American Literature of the Westward Movement, in its broadest connotation, and thought to be the only one of its kind, is outlined. Organized by sections of the country, the course progresses from an introduction to: (1) the Seaboard and the Piedmont, (2) over the Appalachians, (3) the Old Southwest and Twain, (4)…

This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks (1) to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, (2) to increase their academic motivation, (3) to improve their scholastic achievement, (4) to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves,…

In an attack on the current oral-aural approach to teaching foreign languages in the secondary school, the author laments the loss of intellectual involvement on the part of the student in the learning process. Resultant limitations in student preparation for advanced study in literature and linguistics are observed. A set of objectives is…

Aural-oral teaching procedures in elementary classical Greek and in Koine are accompanied by recommended texts. A survey of colleges and universities in America teaching first-year Greek points out the growing interest in this subject, and thus the need for new materials. Operating on the basic linguistic principle that all languages are…

The review of the press and other media following the May 17, 1954 opinion of "Brown v. Board of Education" summarized here leaves little doubt that the message was not misunderstood. There exists today more segregation in the large cities of our nation than there was in 1954. The schools, though not responsible for the exodus to the suburbs, did…