Selected materials for college-level black studies comprise this bibliography that is specifically geared for foreign students who have little knowledge about black Americans. Selections include both books and audiovisual materials. Entries include a bibliographic citation, availability information if known, price, and Library of Congress…

The standard one-period labor supply model that economists have used is in some ways an inadequate tool to evaluate a Family Assistance Plan (FAP). The principal difficulty is that an FAP will have important interperiod or life cycle effects. The pure life cycle model, an extension of the work of Becker and Ghez, is derived here without reference…

The kindergarten instructional unit, part of a grade school level career education series, is designed to assist learners in relating present experiences to past and future ones. Before the main body of the lessons is described field testing results are reported and key items are presented: the concepts, the estimated instructional time, the…

By studying literature and conducting an extensive survey of a community, students, population, size of faculty, and curricula, a proposed media facilities model was drafted for a large suburban high school. Recommendations for equipment to be installed in each classroom are given, along with equipment and materials to be shared by departments or…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. This manual provides administrators with an organized and logical discussion of the planning process, examples of effective practices, practical and useful ideas to improve planning practices, and criteria for effective planning which can be…

Study objectives were to assess the status of a representative number of American Indian tribal governments and to share that information with other members of the national Indian community. Sixteen Indian law students, assisted by 8 Indian lawyers, worked on 17 different Indian reservations during the summer of 1974. Generally working on their…

In this interview (funded via a Title III Elementary Secondary Education Act grant) the roots of progressive education are revealed as Marian Brooks recounts the beginnings of her teaching career in 1924 at the age of 15 in a one room rural New Hampshire school. The interviewer's questions encompass the: (1) nature of the early teacher preparatory…

These materials, developed for upper elementary and junior high school students, focus on a selected core of population learning objectives. Included are 24 self-contained student activities designed to be integrated into the existing curriculum. The activities relate to population concepts that can be investigated through mathematics, science,…

The guide, developed as part of an exemplary program for junior high school students, is a ninth grade English unit designed to use contemporary literary materials which deal with occupational situations and attitudes of both employers and employees. The emphasis is on the relationship between on-the-job and leisure time activities. Three pages of…

The forces affecting relations among nations as well as the effectiveness of decision making processes in international politics are examined and analyzed by 10th through 12th grade students in the elective quinmester course clustering around political studies. Goals emphasize helping students to understand state interaction and the variables…

This publication is offered as a resource guide for teachers rather than as a prescriptive syllabus. No course of study is delineated and no course objectives are spelled out. Instead there are illustrative examples for applying discovery techniques to the study of Latin America, suggestions of various themes useful in organizing a course of study…

The first paper, "Introduction: The culture of poverty hypotheses and their import for social science and social policy," discusses three related hypotheses developed by Oscar Lewis concerning the poor with respect to the views of the other contributors to this volume bearing on those hypotheses. The second paper, "Family structure, poverty, and…

This manual is designed to provide guidelines for establishing, conducting, and evaluating basic and inservice training programs for the implementation of law enforcement training by small police departments. Suggested methods of determining training needs, required physical facilities, selection of staff and faculty, courses of study, and…

The purpose of this first annual report is to provide the sponsoring bureau of this Supervised Independent Study Program and secondary school staffs with a comprehensive description of program activities for the fiscal year 1972 together with the intended program developments for the fiscal year 1973. Statistical data and case studies are…

Funded by a grant from Pennsylvania's Research Coordinating Unit, three key seminar-practicum courses were designed for psychomotor and cognitive skills development in the food service area of post-secondary hospitality education. This 36-week, 3-course sequence utilizes weekly seminars, self-instructional packages, and "real-life"…