To assess the status of and need for vocational-industrial education within Jefferson county, and to provide a more objective basis for program and curriculum development, data were gathered on (1) employment opportunities within the labor market area, (2) student interests in vocational-industrial education, and (3) the financial potential of the…

This report describes in detail the planning and operation of an 8-week pilot day care program for migrant children in Hoopeston, Illinois. Planning began a year in advance and involved arrangements for funding, staff, and physical facilities, as well as the important human relations task of establishing honest communication between…

The overall objective of this elective senior course and guide is to lead the non-college-bound student toward the maturity of consumer judgement necessary in the complex economic marketplace of today. The scope and sequence section of this guide lists the eight units and includes basic objectives, and conceptual understandings for each: 1)…

This general guide to a grade 4 social studies course outlines goals, content, and teaching methods on the theme Communities Around the World, with an economic emphasis. Different communities are used as vehicles to teach about contrasting economic systems and the relationship between the economic system and the rest of culture. Four major units…

Eleven articles on various aspects of financial planning for educational services comprise this document, volume three of the NEFP series. Volume one of this series deals with educational needs, volume two with economic factors and education, and volume four with the impact of educational financing programs. The material in this volume describes…

This resource unit was developed from materials produced and field tested by the Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. It was designed to make progress toward the development of the following objectives: 1) conceptual: globalism, geographic location, diversity, interrelationships, change, cultural use of the environment, economics, culture,…

The unit is another in the series developed from materials produced and field tested by the Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. The Trobriand society was chosen for study in this resource unit for upper elementary grades because its economic system illustrates the importance of reciprocal relationships which continue to be very important in…

This is a collection of articles, excerpts, poems, essays, and short stories dealing with the increasingly militant and aggressive posture now being assumed by certain segments of the Black community. It attempts to reflect, for the teacher and student, the direction in which great masses of Black Americans are currently moving. The initial…

The South Douglas County Early Childhood Education Project serves preschool children from 3 to 5 years old and handicapped children from birth to age 5. The program, designed to establish a parent-school partnership, brings teaching ideas and materials to the homes of participating families. Parents control the educational process, aided by…

This handbook contains suggestions for teaching the facts, principles, and behaviors relevant to civil defense in social studies classes, grades 1-12. These classes were chosen as the entry point for civil defense education because the core of the civil defense concept is government in action with other community agencies to save lives and…

This review cites documents and journal articles previously announced in the ERIC catalogs regarding the conventional aspects of site development, as well as some new trends in schoolhouse design. Economic necessities and changing educational practices suggest that the traditional concept of the school as a separate island within the community is…

Educational volunteer management in recent years has emerged as a highly skilled and specialized profession that is undergoing rapid expansion. Full time staff members have been employed by some boards of education to carry out the specialized management requirements of volunteer recruiting, training, evaluating, assigning, and supervising. A…

The Sixth Annual Report on the characteristics of newly appointed full-time faculty in California Community Colleges for the academic year 1972-73 provides relevant data from 94 public and 10 private community colleges. The size of the faculties in these institutions vary from 3 to 557 full-time faculty, both new and continuing, for a total of…

Recognizing that the need to exchange information has been one of the critical influences in urban design, the Twenty-First Colston Research Society (CRS) Conference explored a variety of topics in the area of communications, transportation, and the environment. These subjects were pursued from the British experience and most all the papers have…

Profiles of Promise is a series of descriptive brochures that highlight social studies and social education practices that teachers and administrators can easily adapt to their own situation. This number describes efforts at Bell Junior High School in Golden, Colorado to create a democratic environment. In the initial process of establishing…