This guide provides ideas for organizing and conducting orientation and inservice parent education programs in nursery schools (particularly cooperatives). It outlines items to be included in parent orientation meetings and enumerates the goals of a community nursery school. Also discussed are suggestions for working with children, some excerpts…

This document outlines the development of a program to increase the understanding of behavioral objectives. It is organized in the following sections: 1) Introduction, which examines the present state of education in the U.S. and the need for change; 2) An Educational Indictment, which attempts to find the causes of the present problems; 3) Why We…

Addressed to those who teach social sciences to gifted students in grades 4-6, the booklet elaborates upon suggestions made in the proposed framework on the social sciences for California public schools. Concepts, generalizations and themes of the social sciences are examined as they relate to principles of teaching social science to gifted…

Selected aspects of the Adult Basic Education Program of the State of New York are evaluated, and the program's effectiveness in providing basic education that is suited to the capabilities, problems, interests, and needs of the adult participants is assessed. The evaluation and assessment are presented in three parts: Part I provides the setting…

This bibliography of three reports updates the 1967 series of comprehensive listings of available research literature on status projections of youth. It is intended to serve as a guide for researchers to use in planning new studies and in providing a broader base for interpreting results of studies already completed. Reports I and II contain…

This document is focused on the various aspects of establishing a systematic approach to the inservice training mini-course in learning disabilities for classroom teachers. The training model is exemplary of a 4-hour, intensive training course designed and conducted by staff and consultants for the Merrimack Education Center. Its purpose is to…

This paper explains why expansion of post-secondary education will not bring about a redistribution of certain other goods in American life. The educational system must distribute its benefits in certain ways, to certain people and for certain purposes. These factors all relate to problems of access, quality and goals. The American educational…

The popular belief that providing learners with a list of the behavioral objectives for a set of instructional materials will increase their learning from the material was unsuccessfully challenged by this brief experiment. Sixty-four university students enrolled in an audiovisual education course were divided into 4 groups. Each group was…

This evaluation of Northeastern State College (N.S.C.) concerns the faculty, research, publications, and in-service activities. Research covered a) evaluation of graduates who teach in northeast Oklahoma public schools, b) a survey of training needed for business education intern teachers in terms of equipment, c) an evaluation of the speech…

This rating scale is intended to determine how strongly the respondent's work is related to the educational goals suggested by the eight items. Part of TM 001 078. (AG)

The objective of the Marine Corps Training Management System (TRAMS) is to assist Headquarters Marine Corps staff agencies in the planning and management functions related to the Marine Corps 'training line'. (Author)

This document comprises a report designed to analyze graduate educational needs in the greater Spokane area. Emphasis was on four broad categories: education, government, business and public affairs. The first chapter describes the characteristics of the Spokane area, the second examines graduate education needs directly, and the third contains…

This report is an attempt to identify and answer some of the major questions about the role of environmental studies in higher education, and to some extent the role of higher education in environmental studies. To this end, questionnaires were sent to 20 higher eudcation institutions that offered environmental studies programs. Fifteen of the…

Following the general conference theme of "Education for Solidarity," this report describes the educational principle and framework within the Kibbutz. The "Mossad" or Community School shelters the Kibbutz child and supervises his development from 12 to 18. The great formative factors, as seen by the Kibbutz, are communal…

The Research and Development Center Program of the U. S. Office of Education is described in this document. The program objectives and criteria used in evaluating proposals for the establishment of research and development centers are indicated. Four research and development centers are discussed in relation to their common characteristics and…