The booklet describes procedures for developing and using biyearly goals in the Macomb (Illinois) 0-3 Regional Project for rural handicapped and high risk infants and toddlers. The goals are developed for each child 6 weeks after he/she enters the project, and serve as program guidelines for the child development specialist and the parents. Goals…

A statement is made on the desirability of expanding teacher education programs to prepare professionals who can work in other than school positions. It is argued that the field of human services needs personnel with the kind of training colleges of education are equipped to provide. (JD)

The author suggests that higher education become a service for students, not an obstacle course that excludes rather than includes. The "paper student," as shown by his transcript, is poorly described. No account is taken, for instance, of his family background--low income, lack of occupational status and geographic or social mobility,…

To analyze the planning and implementation of plans for an organization of higher education within a larger state-wide movement, this study was designed to investigate the following elements of the St. Louis County Junior College District: (1) interorganizational relationships which evolved between local, state and national levels in preparation…

A two-part instrument for evaluating education students in the practicum has been developed. Part 1 is designed to assess the student teacher's definition of instructional objectives, while Part 2 focuses on his implementation of those objectives. The student teacher is given both performance and explication ratings. Performance level is evaluated…

American Samoa provides our country's educators with the opportunity of observing an educational system that effectively employs many of the principles of comprehensive reassessment and change that are only being talked about in the United States. Of particular interest to the group of educators whose visit is described in this article were the…

Reported is an experimental study by the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study (SSMCIS) whose objective is the construction of a unified school mathematics curriculum for grades 7 through 12. More specifically, SSMCIS is concerned with the reconstruction of the entire mathematics curriculum. It attempts to eliminate the…

Described is the development and use of a scheme for probing arguments in defense of instructional objectives in science education. The perspective used in the development of the scheme is derived from a consideration of science curriculum as a practical enterprise, in the Aristotelian sense. Such a perspective sees curriculum action as the…

In defining how new technology fits into journalism education an educator might take one of three positions: (1) a mainstream support for the journalism profession; (2) a defense of traditional newsroom procedures in spite of changing technology; or (3) a "pure" educational position as both teacher and scholar. Educators taking the mainstream…

The first of three main sections of the report on career education in Rhode Island, a rationale for career education, discusses the need for career education, some misconceptions about career education, seven career education tenets, and two State career education program models (Oklahoma and Nevada). Part two deals with career education programs…

Sixteen educational aims were rank ordered by 188 adult rural disadvantaged family members who were student participants in the Mountain-Plains Program. Results were examined by factor analysis and by the Thurstone (unweighted) scaling method; the factor structure was weak, indicating considerable independence for the individual items. Students…

Several practical suggestions or guidelines for deriving objectives in traditionally difficult curriculum areas (written and oral communication, fine arts, social sciences, and humanities) are presented in this paper. The author believes that educators do not know how well they can define important, teachable objectives in these areas until they…

The Purpose-Process Curriculum Framework (PPCF) is a guide for making curricular decisions that takes into account the overall merit of the curriculum and the merit of specific objectives. One approach to implementing this framework is to utilize a grid with the purposes represented across the top and processes represented along the side. Assume…

Today's vocational education program can be traced to basic principles established during the formative period of vocational education. Although the implementation of vocational education may change, basic principles continue to stand. Four points of view, randomly selected from the past 200 years, which seem to be present in vocational education…

International university cooperation is the main purpose of the International Association of Universities (IAU). Certain problems arise in the field of international cooperation and particularly in the field of assistance. The helping hand easily becomes a dominating hand while the notion of mutual exchange presupposes the existence and…