This document describes the minimum standards that must be met and maintained by day care centers in the state of Texas. These standards were drawn up by the State Department of Public Welfare and are applicable to both non-profit and proprietary day care centers. The areas covered by the standards include: (1) organization and general…

LaGuardia Community College (New York) provides secondary education through its Middle College program, which includes comprehensive remedial programs for low ability students. During the 1974-75 academic year, two participant observers made over 400 observations of the Middle College's activities, focusing on: (1) instructional methods,…

This facilitator's manual, produced by the Family Developmental Center of the Family Service Agency of San Francisco, is designed for use with groups of school-age mothers. Included are meeting-by-meeting instructions for the group leader and some curriculum materials for students. The introduction indicates that the leader should be sensitive to…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between 38 factors of integration and of student unrest in six desegregated high schools in south eastern United States. The basic problem of this study was to determine whether or not the quality of integration as measured on the 38 factors of integration on the Secondary Student…

The 1974 faculty handbook from the California State University, Long Beach discusses: (1) history, planning, and budgeting; (2) university organization, covering administrative, faculty, and auxiliary organizations, and university support groups; (3) personnel policies and procedures, including affirmative action, and student evaluation of…

In this collection of articles designed for the elementary school teacher there are capsule portraits of the 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-year-old and an outline of a full program for a good school day. Also included are discussions on children's thinking and how it can be encouraged, creativity, the stages of the creative process and ways creativity…

Policies and procedures of the college are presented in the 1975-76 edition of the faculty handbook. Administrative designations of responsibility are described, and the constitution of the V.C.S.C. Faculty Association is given. Specific details are included which deal with: academic freedom and political activities; faculty responsibilities;…

Between July 1973 and March 1974 workers in the Children's Fund Survey on Nonenrollment knocked on more than 8,500 doors in 30 areas in nine states--Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and South Carolina--and in the District of Columbia, and talked to over 6,500 families. Areas were chosen to represent…

On the twentieth anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, it seems appropriate for the Commission on Civil Rights to commemorate the Supreme Court's decision with an examination of the civil rights progress between 1954 and 1974. The first report in the series provided a brief historical background. This second report covers equality of…

This collection of articles revolves around the struggle for full racial equality through community control of schools by the black and Puerto Rican people of New York City. The opening chapter describes the city Board of Education's deliberate policy of intensifying and consolidating segregation during the very years when it was most volubly…

This basic handbook for personnel development through training and continuing education within health care institutions describes the techniques involved in developing programs, from needs determination to evaluation. It covers how to make a skill inventory and a survey of learning needs; how to state learning objectives; how to design a specific…

The investigation in this study of inner-city elementary schools identified two main causes for successful learning environments. The strongest influence was thought to be the principal. An analysis of "problem oriented schools" showed that successful principals were prone to act independently of bureaucratic directives, and that they heeded…

Only the approach that integrates a study of both the "what" and the "how" of a discipline will be relevant to the practicing English teacher. Missing between the two extremes of specialized subject matter research and conventional educational research is research into the structure of a particular discipline, exploring it as a body of knowledge,…

Forty-five unsolicited manuscripts related to prominent concerns of elementary school principals have been published in a single volume under nine topics, as follows: The role of the principal; supervision; inservice education; teacher preparation; school-community relations; parent relations; guidance; discipline; and miscellaneous. Issues…

The Undergraduate Studies Committee in the Political Science Department at Berkeley designed this self-study for the purpose of understanding more clearly the experiences political science majors have in the department. The first part of the study was a "study in depth" which consisted of interviewing some 60 undergraduate majors in…