For use with junior and senior high school students, this book presents more than 250 drawings and pictures, with an introduction and brief texts in English and Spanish, depicting 450 years of Chicano history. The book covers: Mexico before the Spanish Conquests, Spain's colonization of the Southwest, the United States war on Mexico, events in the…

This paper suggests that the current crisis in Black Studies is due to its failure to achieve full legitimacy as a unique academic area of concern. The paper further contends that the lack of an external and internal legitimacy is due to the lack of an objectively identifiable unique methodology to undergrid Black Studies. Section I addresses the…

This evaluation provides a project description, principal objectives, a listing of activities and services, and aspects of communication of eight nonpublic school centers providing supplemental instruction in corrective reading, language, and mathematics to students deficient in these areas because of economic, linguistic, or environmental…

The state agency represents the interface between the statewide education system and the governmental and external bodies that would influence it. About 55 state agency staff members from all over the east coast attended an inservice workshop that attempted to measure some of the new dimensions of postsecondary education and to equip participants…

An assessment of future requirements for Illinois higher education operations and grants leads to the identification of some significant trends and problems. These include: (1) trends in enrollment and in financing higher education in Illinois for the period fiscal years 1966 to 1976; (2) projections of resource requirements for Illinois higher…

This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. This activity is a report or case study which looks at the implications, problems, and reactions to a regional comprehensive plan to regulate growth patterns in a 15,000 square-mile area of Toronto,…

This coordinator's handbook is designed to give necessary information and guidance to the person responsible for coordinating a training course based on one or more units in the Determining Instructional Purposes training package. Although the role of the coordinator resembles the traditional roles of instructor or consultant, it is not identical…

Project activities involved: (1) examination of exploratory measures of social incompetency of junior high school adolescents, (2) development and trial of educational units designed in response to problems in black urban schools, and (3) a compilation and review of cross-sectional Test of Social Inference (TSI) data. Extensive test data was…

This annual report describes the work of the Teaching Methods and Materials Centre of the University of Papua and New Guinea. The five main objectives of the Centre are information services, consultant services, coordination of resources, teacher education and in-service training, and research. Details are provided on the development, progress,…

These newsletters are a regular feature of the edition of the Progress Report sent to teachers, and further, supplement the World Law Fund's catalog of publications. Issues provide teachers with professional information on materials and techniques for teaching about world order. Typical inclusions present sample lesson plans and unit descriptions,…

Information on various aspects of education in the Maghreb countries is provided in this annotated bibliography which is part of an educational series. One hundred entries consisting primarily of works from newspaper and government documents and a few periodicals, published in those countries during 1971 and a few in 1972, comprise this work.…

The annotated bibliography, arranged by major topics as are other documents in the series, comprises one hundred entries. The scope, topics, format, arrangement, and time period covered are similar to SO 005 296. Emphasis is upon providing information on various aspects of education in Maghreb countries. (SJM)

Conference participants, representing business, industry, labor, and education, formulated concrete suggestions for action in response to a set of 10 career education concepts. The handbook is a compilation of the suggestions, based on desirability, practical probability, and practical limitations of each concept. The concepts deal with exchange…

The controversial and complex issues regarding the effects of educational and psychological testing on the education of minority group children in America are discussed. Although the focus is primarily on black students, the issues discussed are equally valid for all minority populations in the American public schools. The articles in the book…

The Chicago Youth Development Project was an action-research program jointly undertaken by the Chicago Boys Club and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research to test whether a program of aggressive street work and community organization in the core of a city could reduce delinquency among youth living there. The report presents a…