The objective of this government document is to report on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) opportunity to close the educational gap between Indians and other Americans by raising the academic achievement level of the Indians to the national average by 1976. Findings of this review of management methods used by the BIA revealed, for example,…

Volume III with its appendixes analyzes critically many different facets of officer education and training. It starts from the factual base of the current Army Schooling system established in Annex B of AD-743 252 and takes cognizance of schooling programs in other public and private sectors. It attempts to take the long view of officer education…

In March 1968, the Associated Organization for Teacher Education (AOTE) authorized a task force to study educational personnel for the urban schools. This report grows out of the task force examination of the use of paraprofessional personnel, in concept and operational terms. The report has been divided into three areas: a) educational manpower,…

This conference was concerned with academically disadvantaged students in the community college. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia were represented by 200 conference registrants. Designed primarily for institutions having few or no programs for academically disadvantaged students, the conference covered each segment of the special…

Program descriptions from 44 training institutions were examined regarding the process they employed in teacher education. Eight questions designed to identify various aspects of the process were applied to the written descriptions. The responses illustrate that: 1) program experiences are developed primarily by examination of the teaching task…

This volume presents a sampling of major innovative programs in a broad range of teacher training institutions. A selection of 39 case studies focus on innovations in teacher education in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The case studies are selective; certain areas of the world were not canvassed; the majority of contributions…

Presented are the proceedings of a 1975 conference on higher education for deaf blind persons which emphasized ways to raise the level of expectation that society and educators hold for the deaf blind. Noted are various communication methods used during the conference including platform interpreting (for the deaf) and the Tadoma method,…

The statistical data generated by the Pennsbury, Pennsylvania school district's assessment of the needs and resources of the community are presented here. The study itself consisted of two phases: (1) an Opinion Inventory to find out how a random sampling of community and school staff felt about the ideas of community education, and (2)…

Half of this paper is addressed to the national phenomena of shrinking resources and expanding needs and their effect on society. After noting that increased productivity can be a major intervention factor in mitigating their effect, the author gives ideas about how vocational education can become increasingly productive and where it might begin.…

A unified statement on vocational home economics education's purpose, funding preferences, and emphases on consumer and homemaking education resulted from a joint meeting of representatives of three professional associations. The statement is intended to serve as a guide in determining legislative priorities. (Author/BP)

Special abilities and special talents mean special problems! Programs and classroom strategies for developing the intellectual abilities for gifted students were discussed. (Editor/RK)

Study of ethnographic works on the Mescalero indicates: (1) fully developed concepts of sex roles; (2) strong tradition of personal freedom and democracy; (3) acceptance of leadership on the basis of personal ability rather than status; (4) external, impersonal agents for social control; (5) teaching by precept and indirection; (6) learning by…

Expresses concern for the way journalistic ethics is taught. Offers ways to improve such instruction. (RL)

Reconsideration of the education process for both adults and the young is required by the knowledge explosion and other factors of the past few decades. The author discusses the need for a life-long education system, with particular attention to adult education of various kinds. (MF)

The National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics has developed a list of ten basic processes in mathematics which all students need to learn. The back-to-the-basics thrust in education must address the development of these and other skills. (MJB)