Civic education is the student's participation in the governance of the school and the community; it must create and serve democratic society. Today's youth must be given the tools: 1) to transform vertical governance of the school and community into horizontal governance which shares decision-making with students, parents, and teachers; and, 2)…

The second annual review of Canadian degree research on adult education, this work describes ten master's and doctoral studies completed in 1969, and 22 others still in progress. The degree and institution are noted for each, followed by the date of acceptance or estimated completion, statement of the problem or objective, methods used, findings…

This report on an Institute for school administrators in Buffalo, New York, focuses on the problems of urban school administration. The Institute was held during the summer of 1967 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The State University, the Buffalo Public Schools, and several suburban schools came together in order to enhance the…

An operant conditioning program for 12 problematic adolescent boys is described in detail. Complete procedures are discussed, including criteria for student selection and the Programming Interpersonal Curricula for Adolescents (PICA) academic and psychological test battery. The academic component of the program focuses on mathematics and English…

This program aimed to help disadvantaged children enter kindergarten by giving them preschool experiences which were mainly designed to augment conceptual and cognitive development. The pupils, drawn from an economically depressed area, were mostly black three- and four-year-old children. In addition to augmenting conceptual and cognitive…

Project Early Push was a prekindergarten program designed to provide disadvantaged children with experiences vital to later educational success. Students' ages ranged between 3 years 9 months and 4 years 9 months at the start of the program; students came from a target area in Buffalo. Specific goals of the program were to foster a healthy…

Part I of this book attempts to provide students with an understanding of the "academic enterprise" as a whole, and specifically the structures, people, money, myths and practices which create that peculiar enterprise known as freshman English, an experience through which the majority of college students must pass. Part II offers students a…

This study assessed three factors in adult education participation by industrial employees: (1) perceived need deficiency on the job; (2) importance of need fulfillment; (3) perception of education as a means of advancement. A measure of perceived need deficiency was applied to 177 participants and 149 nonparticipants in classes at Purdue…

The statistical report of 172 Great Books groups is based on one of a series of studies of participants, leaders, and educational effectiveness of study discussion programs sponsored by the Fund for Adult Education. During 1957, interviewers administered questionnaires to 1909 participants in "primary sampling units." It was found that…

The Project on Recreation and Fitness for the Mentally Retarded and the objectives of such programs are reviewed. Activity areas surveyed include physical fitness, motor ability, sports skills, special events, and recreation. Also considered are the following: testing and measuring individual progress, including psychomotor and physical fitness…

With 90% of about 4.7 million Mexican Americans living in the 5 Southwest States and 80% of these living in an urban environment, Mexican American students face several educational problems in the urban setting, including high dropout rate, low educational achievement, and ineffective institutions. Schools fail to recognize the cultural richness…

Development of an evaluation instrument for the church sponsored Community Change Training Institute (CCTI) resulted in a pre-post test instrument involving measures of meaning, vocabulary, involvement in community action, and personality. Fisher's technique computed the pre-post scores of 108 persons in CCTI groups in Missouri, Ohio, and Hawaii.…

This bulletin describes the New York City Children's Community Workshop School, the school being founded on the premise that children learn best through concrete activities which relate to the experiences of everyday life. Serving a mixed racial population of Black, Puerto Rican and caucasian students, the students (five and one-half to 11 years…

Using a sample of 105 persons who had left the Minneapolis New Careers Program (combined work and higher education), this study sought to predict who drops out of this type of program and to make recommendations for recruitment procedures. The Self-Concept Questionnaire and an inventory of work interests or needs were administered, but failed to…

The report in this issue of Curriculum Bulletin documents extra-curricular and after school activities adopted by Canadian urban communities in Ontario to combat cultural disadvantagement and reading deficiencies among inner-city children, pre-school through junior high school ages. The projects described in the metropolitan areas of Hamilton,…