Intended for public and private agencies working in the field of child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment, the manual is designed to assist those responsible for creating public understanding of the problem of child abuse and neglect. Chapters cover the following areas: the value of a public relations program; planning and budgeting a…

As an introduction to this issue, the author examines inflation and recent government attempts in Great Britain to control rising prices. The new format for this periodical is a loose folder containing three especially commissioned articles, reprints of relevant press articles, graphs, and a bibliography. The new format enables teachers to…

The causes of inflation and such remedies as tax increases, money supply decrease, and wage and price freezes are examined. (DE)

Describes an attempt to solve curriculum development problems through the formation of resource cooperatives to share the design, production, and evaluation of learning schemes. (GS)

From the Series "Social Studies Education: The Elementary School -- Focus on Inquiry.

This bibliography contains over 280 references to recent published works, divided into four topic areas: (1) primary prevention of drug abuse for multicultural communities; (2) bicultural women and substance abuse; (3) program processes in multicultural drug abuse prevention; and (4) Spanish and bilingual materials on drug abuse prevention. Each…

Teachers are often baffled by the inability of a number of basic writing students to use the proper connective to show relationship between sentences or phrases for coherence. Most frustrating is the teacher's inadequacy in giving definitions or explanations beyond the student's textbook descriptions of the connectives. However, a cursory…

This directory provides descriptions of marine academic programs in California's community colleges, 4-year private colleges and universities, and 4-year public colleges and universities. Each program listing (by institution) includes; (1) program title corresponding to official degree title; (2) degree(s) offered; (3) descriptive information…

This document describes Texas' natural resources and suggests ways to correlate conservation instruction into the existing curriculum. Resources discussed include: 1) soil (soil formation; properties of soils; soil survey, soil use in agriculture; soils and the state economy, land value; specific soil resources); 2) air (principal pollutants and…

This bibliographic essay provides a sequence for searching and a list of 60 reference sources useful for retrieving educational research literature. Many of these sources are briefly described in the essay. The bibliography includes reviews of research, bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, yearbooks, dictionairies, and such government publications…

The development of young people is the mission of the student council. The projects described in this booklet are intended as resources for council development and can be modified to suit individual school programs. Many of the projects are presented in detail to emphasize opportunities for the involvement of many students and to focus on the…

This manual is a resource guide on energy education for teaching career education from grades seven to twelve. It contains 18 student activities which are grouped into four goal oriented units. The main objectives of the project are to increase the student's understanding that: (1) Natural laws limit energy availability; (2) Energy consumption…

This manual is a resource guide on energy conservation for the teaching of health education. It contains 12 student activities which are grouped into four goal oriented units. The main objectives of the project are to increase the student's understanding that: (1) Natural laws limit energy availability; (2) Energy consumption affects both man and…