Due to increasing numbers of immigrants since 1960, especially Finnish children, Sweden began to establish instructional objectives and policies for immigrant children. Stated aims clearly stress that the primary aim in the teaching of immigrant children in Swedish schools is to promote bilingualism. While the short-term aim is to produce…

This bulletin briefly describes the functions and services offered by the State Educational Accountability Repository (SEAR), a program of the Cooperative Accountability Project (CAP). SEAR was created as a center to collect information about state accountability efforts and to disseminate it to state education agencies, and to develop…

A possible analysis of the functions of the university is that it is both a cultural and an institutional function. The cultural function centers on the pursuit of meaning, the institutional function on the acquisition of the material resources needed for this pursuit. Moreover, a great many future possibilities are open to the university once it…

The document is the second of a two-part set on typewriting and focuses on the nine modules of instruction. The nine modules are: (1) keyboard mastery and skill development, (2) basic typewriting competencies, (2a) personal use typewriting, (3) introduction to office typewriting I, (4) introduction to office typewriting II, (5) intermediate office…

Prepared as an aid to teachers, the document provides four outlined examples showing how to establish appropriate subobjectives and learning tasks when teaching Field Objectives from the Wisconsin Guide to Local Curriculum Improvement in Industrial Education, K-12. Examples seek to implement student understanding of the guide objectives and are…

The term curriculum development is a fairly new one in the educational language, though it is being used with increasing frequency. The purpose of this book is to explain what is meant by curriculum development and what is involved in curriculum planning. It outlines the relationship among the various elements in the curriculum and explains the…

The hypothesis presented in this paper is that there is a clear and powerful trend in U.S. higher education in the direction of people for education rather than education for people; that this trend has reached the point of actually redefining the operational notion of education and people; that it applies to both students and faculty; and that it…

The purpose of this paper is to suggest several alternative patterns of organizing Alberta's present post-secondary educational system. This purpose is achieved by: (1) examining the generally accepted goals of higher education; (2) advancing several arguments for and against government intervention; (3) an analysis of several plans now in…

This booklet presents the objectives prepared for the National Assessment of Educational Progress's reassessment of writing. The three main writing objectives were: (1) Demonstrates ability in writing to reveal personal feelings and ideas; (2) Demonstrates ability to write in response to a wide range of societal demands and obligations; and (3)…

Designed to serve as a resource for teachers, students, department chairmen, guidance personnel, and curriculum planners, this curriculum guide is divided into the following sections: (1) basic language plan, (2) first year French, (3) French grammar, (4) second year French, (5) third year French, (6) first year Italian, (7) second year Italian,…

University adult education in Britain must seek to uplift ordinary people (as opposed to condescending to them) by helping them share the experience of "the best art, the best knowledge and ideas of out time." Universities must be prepared to serve the community and put their ideas to the test of everyday life while upholding the…

This paper presents some of the ideas of three early contributors to the junior college movement in the United States (William Watts Folwell, Henry Phillips Tappan, and William Rainey Harper). All three of these men agreed that the first two years of college should be within the realm of secondary schools, or, at least, distinct from the…

A need exists for a more clear-cut description of how the taxonomy of educational objectives can be implemented in the school setting. In answer to that need, a way is shown to formulate specific behavioral objectives within the hierarchy of the major levels and sublevels of the taxonomies as set forth by Bloom (1956) and Krathwohl (1964). To…

The "organic curriculum" of the Educational System of the Seventies Project (ES '70) is one which integrates academic training, occupational training, and personal development in grades nine through 12 and which draws heavily on research dealing with individualized instruction. The program held at Kingsley Inn, Bloomfield Hills,…

This Master Plan for the City Colleges of Chicago outlines their goals for the latter half of the 1970's. Thirty-two recommendations are made concerning six goal areas: community and people, programs, instruction, facilities, finance, and organization. Among the recommendations are the following: (1) by 1980 the city colleges should aim to serve…