One of four curriculum guides designed to aid teachers of grades K-9 in implementing a balanced, dynamic traffic safety program, this level B guide contains materials for teachers of grades 2-3. Content includes pedestrian, bicycle, school bus, and passenger safety units in which perceptual and judgmental skills are emphasized. Bicycle safety is…

A study of career education was done in California to develop a conceptual model that describes the cooperative activities (intradisciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary) within the school setting, identify promising practices that use cooperative activities to enhance the implementation of career education, and make recommendations…

Two Ohio State University commencement addresses, one by former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz in March 1977 and the other by former President Gerald R. Ford in August 1974, deal with the topic of education and work. Willard Wirtz discusses the problems of unemployment among youth and the elderly and cites the need for national education/work…

This study explores some techniques that could assist education managers in their attempt to arrive at more optimal input and output mixes. The first part (Chapters 1-4) provides an overview of the input-output concept in relation to its employment in the educational setting, along with a review of the literature on the educational production…

This law-focused resource booklet is intended to help secondary level students learn about the civil law portion of Iowa's judicial system. The materials are designed to help students understand how to deal with conflict in a peaceful and orderly manner and how to cope with decision making in personal law situations as related to the family, the…

The bibliographies identify over 1,000 titles of documents about the state of Virginia which are contained in the Educational Media Examination Center of the Virginia Department of Education. Documents are classified by the Dewey decimal system. Subject areas represented include religion, sociology, political science, law, education, commerce,…

Recommendations by task forces at the Appalachian Balanced Growth and Economic Development Conference in 1977 to the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) resulted in ARC's adoption of six resolutions which are listed in this supplement. Specific recommendations were made under the following resolution headings: (1) legislation for a national…

Offering an historical perspective on the development of science, engineering, medicine, and technology and providing current role models for minority students, the bulletin lists the outstanding contributions made by: (1) Blacks - medicine, chemistry, architecture, engineering, physics, biology, and exploration; (2) Hispanos - biomedical…

One in a series of annual publications, this booklet contains reviews of books relating to the teaching of English and the language arts. The books are divided into ten categories: teaching principles and practice, source books and course books, writing and rhetoric, reading and books for the slower reader, language and oral work, prose, poetry,…

The shifting political milieu which surrounded and conditioned all of Illinois' educational endeavors in the half century after 1870 is discussed. Studies of those elements of society which have influenced the development of schools have often neglected the political milieu that affects educational policy-making at the state level. The political…

This teacher-oriented guide presents information and resources for use in increasing political literacy of K-12 social studies students. The main objective of the guide is to further civic literacy through increased knowledge and understanding of political structures and processes and of effective citizen participation. Emphasis is on helping…

The many problems connected with successful implementation of community college open enrollment involve students, faculty, college resources and basic processes. Together they constitute the challenge posed by open enrollment to administrators. Problems relative to students include low reading and writing abilities, low levels of preparedness and…

A 93-item annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive guide to resource materials, research findings, and developments related to library services and materials to Mexican Americans. The materials, published between 1964 and 1976, are drawn from issues of "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE). Both…

An integrated approach to education for special needs students is presented in this curriculum guide for ACCEPT (Academic Cooperative Career Education Program Today). Introductory information covers a definition of special needs students (educationally and socioeconomically disadvantaged and physically and mentally handicapped, including…

In this collection, numerous professional writers who have worked with students in public school classrooms offer ideas for helping students learn to write creatively. The ideas are grouped into six major sections: "Teaching Writing,""Writing Ideas" (gimmicks, letters and dialogues, writing from observation, writing and literature), "Drama, Film,…