One of six student guidebooks in a series of 11 arts and humanities career exploration guides for grade 7-12 teachers, counselors, and students, this student book on exploration of theater and media careers presents information on specific occupations in five different career areas: Performance, writing, production, business, and…

In the present complex and changing context students and families are looking for information tools to help them identify financial planning constants to allow them to reduce the number of unknown factors that can be barriers to the completion of a personal financial package to cover the cost of higher education. This handbook is designed to…

This is a middle school guide for teaching about human rights prepared for use in the Detroit, Michigan public schools. The guide presents a number of overall goals and specific objectives in the area of human rights. Each objective is paired with corresponding classroom activities and resource materials. Topics of study include equality of race,…

A study assessed whether the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) equitably allocates its training, employment, occupational, and wage benefits by sex. To analyze the sex equity of CETA's resource distribution, researchers used data from the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey (CLMS) for fiscal 1976, 1977, and 1978 CETA enrollees.…

Now in its third edition, this book contains background materials and resources for teaching introductory high school psychology. There are 11 chapters. Textbooks appropriate for introductory courses are reviewed in the first chapter. Books of reading which are a potentially valuable source of information to both student and teacher are listed in…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary civil technology--surveying education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for development of entry level skills in surveying in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival skills. The first…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary dental assistant education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for development of entry level skills in dental assisting in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival skills. The first…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary instrumentation technology education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for development of entry level skills in instrumentation technology in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary welding education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for the development of entry level skills in welding in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival skills. The first two sections of 10…

Designed to help teachers provide students with various word processing skills, this teacher's guide contains nine units of instruction. The units address various skills that are prerequisite for entry-level word processing positions, including concepts and theories of word processing, language usage, mathematics, machine transcription and…

A compilation of materials to aid Jackson County, Oregon migrant teachers, the document includes: (1) a discussion of the background and relationship between Title I (Disadvantaged Education) and Title I-M (Migrant Education Program) of Public Law 89-10; (2) a description of migrant migration patterns in Jackson County; (3) a county map locating…

This is a directory of learning resources for non-English speaking people available to Iowa libraries. Section one discusses the background and rationale for the directory and includes a list of bibliographies for multicultural resources and materials in foreign languages. Referral information concerning classes, employment programs, agencies,…

This annual report examines the problems and current economic status of various social, educational, and career development programs and services administered by the National Urban League. Also reported are the objectives, organization, and funding status of the Child Abuse Project, and the current state of health services, administration of…

The meeting reported in this document was held to focus attention on some of the problems that governments in developing countries encounter when they try, in introducing educational reforms, to make sure that what they choose meets the needs of people in disadvantaged and remote areas. Participants included 12 experts from 10 Asian countries…

It is proposed that federal block grants to Illinois be distributed to school districts according to four characteristics of those districts. Funds will be distributed inversely proportional to property valuation per pupil, directly proportional to percentage of minority children, directly proportional to percentage of poverty children (Title I…