The goals of the graduate schools in predominantly Negro institutions are comparable to those of graduate education in other US institutions. However, graduate education in predominantly Negro universities has 2 unique functions: (1) to provide programs which meet criteria in terms of adequacy while preparing graduate students for significant…

This is the first in a series of books that will deal with different aspects of teaching and learning in higher education, such as students' learning and individual differences, teaching methods, and new teaching techniques. Four papers examine general objectives in higher education and relate them to techniques of evaluation and teaching methods.…

The awe and wonder with which the public once viewed US colleges and universities is now changing to anger and disgust as a result of well-publicized campus disorders. On the University of Wisconsin (Madison) campus, less than one-tenth of 1% of the total student body are activists who advocate the takeover of the "establishment." This group gets…

In order to assess the impact of different college environments on student development and to provide a source of current, readily available information about college students, the American Council on Education (ACE) has undertaken a large-scale program of longitudinal research on the higher educational system. The program will be based primarily…

Efforts to humanize the educational system at Kendall College are described. It is first assumed that the competetive nature of the American educational system must produce some failures, and that these failures adversely affect the self-concept of some persons, and in turn limit those persons' adult creativity. Human Potential Seminars were…

The Human Potential Seminars at Kendall College, a part of the Program for Humanized Curriculum Design are described. The Seminars are based on the assumption that every student is gifted in the sense of having unique potentialities. The conviction is held that something is right with the participants; motivation focuses on individual discovery…

This booklet presents background material and current facts about the 34 US public Negro colleges and universities that have provided educational opportunities in 19 Southern and border states for able and deserving black students at generally low costs for over 100 years. Because of steady improvement in educational quality, a constantly…

The commission outlined a legislative program at the Federal level. Federal aid should come under the direct control of the executive branch to consolidate and simplify all education aid programs. This reorganization should include continuous and effective presentation of the State point of view to the responsible authorities. A new three-tiered…

The general procedures used to develop educational objectives for the National Assessment of Educational Progress are outlined, as are the procedures used to develop citizenship objectives. Ten general objectives are stated: "show concern for the welfare and dignity of others"; "support rights and freedoms of all individuals";…

A study was made of three disadvantaged youth training projects to determine the degree to which guidelines from behavioral technology and educational studies were being used in the programs. From a review of behavioral science and learning research evolved a model which explicated the functions which should be implemented in an operational…

This booklet is part of a series on health instruction developed by the Publications Commission of the School Health Division of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. An aid to teachers, it describes the proper role of sex education in the classroom. The specific aims and objective of sex education for grade…

This monograph discusses the background and current state of early childhood education, and the goals and methods of Project Head Start are emphasized. The development of Follow Through and the present status of Title I programs, kindergartens, day care centers, and nursery schools are briefly considered. The booklet discusses 10 problems facing…

Professor Postman is in agreement with Professor Gagne's view that valid measurement of learning outcomes is an essential part of the evaluation of educational systems. The paper stresses that the categorization of outcomes and measuring operations should be regarded as flexible heuristic devices, and that it is desirable to guard against the risk…

Designed to provide information about what 46 innovative schools (K-12) have done in individualizing instruction, this manual for school administrators, using examples from the 46 schools, opens with a chapter on how individualized instruction differs from traditional instruction. Successive chapters, also using the schools as evidence, focus on…

This report examines parents' goals for secondary education through an interview according to the range and content of his/her goals and needs, the hierarchical structure of the categories of these goals, and the priorities he/she established among the goal categories. Three separate studies (N=19; N=20; N=81) were conducted in order to refine and…