Federally controlled educational programs are causing subordination of local and State educational initiative and responsibility. Primary control of the educational program should rest with local educational agencies. The State should engage in educational planning, experimentation, and innovation; set basic educational standards; and provide…

Five appendixes make up this part of the final report on the elementary teacher education program. Appendix L is a summary chart of the orientation meetings, giving dates, locations, and participants. Appendix M is a listing of the seven school districts actively participating in the OCE coalition, with a brief description of their essential…

This paper reports on a large-scale project of research and evaluation of a program for disadvantaged minority group students conducted by the Center for Educational Opportunity at the Claremont Colleges. The Program of Special Directed Studies for Transition to College (PSDS), a five-year experimental project, is aimed at providing a four-year,…

A conference dealing with the problems and activities of open-circuit educational radio and television broadcasting on five continents, especially in the developing nations, was organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Paris in 1967. Technological change, especially the development of reasonably priced videotape equipment, was cited…

This article summarizes major research in the teaching and learning of written composition from the elementary grades through college. The research is discussed under the following headings: (1) "History to 1900," (2) "Objectives and Curriculum: 1900-1935," (3) "Influences on the Curriculum: 1935-1965," (4) "Difficulties in Research," (5)…

This is the seventh in the third series of general bibliographies developed to disseminate information on documents analyzed at the ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science Education. Reported are some 87 citations of selected documents in the areas of (1) science and society, (2) the history of science education, (3) science history, and (4)…

A symposium was sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education; experts in the fields of technology, economics, and pedagogy gathered to evaluate the potential technological advances in terms of cost-effectiveness and feasibility within the existing educational framework, and to help delineate the ways in which educational…

The vocational needs of rural America are discussed in this 2-part research synthesis. Part 1 discusses the problem from a sociological point of view. The author of this section considers demographic and ecological factors, the economy of rural areas, educational patterns, racial and ethnic factors, and political and legal implications.…

Thirteen papers have been collected in this book to indicate professional concern about English instruction at all levels and to articulate the role of the teacher, teacher educator, academician, and federal government in changing current English teaching practices. Topics of articles are (1) the intellectual, civic, and ethical responsibilities…

This document contains abstracts of approximately 400 papers presented at the 1968 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. A sampling of the varied subjects covered includes: classroom interaction, verbal behavior, concept learning, conservation concepts, teaching the disadvantaged, teaching strategies, research on…

The document is an annotated bibliography of Yugoslav educational materials. Most books, articles, and papers were published in 1972, with the exception of a few dated 1973. Items are listed by author within the following categories: (1) history of education; (2) educational research; (3) development of education; (4) teacher training and teaching…

The comprehensive-versus-selective school issue is primarily a socio-politico-economic rather than pedagogic problem. The International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) had as its primary objective to relate certain social, economic and pedagogic characteristics of the different systems to the outcomes of instruction in…

This study specifically attempts to determine and compare (1) the existence of board policies, both written and unwritten, dealing with supplementary free materials; (2) the procedures and criteria used in selection and evaluation of these materials; and (3) the person(s) and/or group(s) responsible for determination of the acceptability and for…

The author reports on a program designed to improve the skills of staff members in recognizing, and adapting instructions to, the varied learning styles, abilities, and affective needs of pupils in an ethnically unbalanced "pocket of poverty" elementary school. The staff included paraprofessionals and teachers of reading, mathematics,…

In the last several years, one of the approaches that has been advocated as a mechanism to bring about needed improvements and revitalize education is the use of incentives. This paper suggests a conceptual framework for studying the uses of incentives in American public education and examines briefly the state-of-the-art of recent research and…