The Boise, Idaho career exploration project (grades 1-6) involves curriculum development, guidance/counseling, and research. Guidance and career units were primarily written by a curriculum writer and the project director; teacher involvement was mainly through study of the written materials. The guidance/counseling component is geared to the…

Presented are papers and proceedings of the National Institute on Program Development and Training in Recreation for Deaf-Blind Children, Youth and Adults (Iowa, 1974). Chapters 1-3 summarize institute participants' views on topics such as normalization, needs, and advocacy for the deaf-blind (DB); report a consumer's, a parent's, a rehabilitation…

The series of four papers document the growth in conceptual thinking of a new discipline designed to teach global awareness. The first paper, The Case for Developmentalogy, argues for the establishment of a fully recognized and accredited discipline in the study of global development, with relevant, general courses offered at the elementary,…

This publication describes over 100 activity-oriented programs in which students learn through a combination of direct experience and associated instruction or reflection. Students are involved in cross-age tutoring, community services, on-the-job work experiences, foreign or domestic travel with an organized group, political campaigns, field…

The annotated bibliography consists of 138 career discovery and development publications (26 books, 31 journals, and 81 unpublished materials) under the headings of: general information and background; philosophy, rationale, and professional development; curriculum; career guidance; minorities, women, and the disadvantaged; programs, projects, and…

This paper is designed to assist intramural administrative personnel in the development of summer school programs. The text focuses on the summer school intramural program developed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The topical areas covered include (a) program history, (b) staffing, (c) facilities and equipment, (d) scheduling, (e)…

New Hampshire Supervisory School Union 58--Experimental Schools project (Groveton, New Hampshire) has developed a rural schools oriented career education program for grades K-12, which incorporates the total community. The program focuses on three major themes: (1) Self Awareness--Who Am I? (kindergarten and grade 1), (2) Awareness of Community…

The child of the migratory agricultural worker is a special problem due to his mobility and difficulties in using the English language. Funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, the Texas Child Migrant Program was developed to provide an educational opportunity for the migrant child which would enable him to function within…

This document examines the following four teacher center pilots in the National Teacher Center Program: the Bay Area Learning Center in northern California, the Rhode Island Teacher Center in Providence, the Texas Center for the Improvement of Educational Systems in Austin, and the Center for Educational Advancement located in Washington, D.C.…

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences established the Afro-American studies program as a department after reviewing a careful, reasoned analysis by a committee of Harvard professors who had worked for almost a year to develop the program. The Rosovsky Report and the faculty's action in creating a department of Afro-American Studies, represented honest…

The purpose of this Handbook is to provide the user with the information needed to develop a program similar to the Providence Educational Center (PEC) in his or her community. As an alternative to incarceration in a training school, the PEC in St. Louis, Missouri provides intensive remedial education and counseling to adjudicated delinquents.…

A supplement to 5 previous bibliographies, this bibliography provides access to some of the latest resource material, research findings, and/or developments in outdoor education. Part I contains 143 citations and abstracts which appeared in "Resources in Education" (RIE) from the January 1975 issue through the December 1975 issue. Part…

The purpose of this study was to produce a list of materials for metric instruction in the elementary school. The Charles H. Taylor School in Boston was used as a laboratory for the collection, study, and evaluation of published metric materials. Problems inherent in the introduction of the metric system in four dissimilar elementary schools were…

The materials included in this document were prepared for the inservice training of Adoption Site personnel by the staff of Project Focus, a Developer/Demonstration site funded by the U.S. Office of Education under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The document is designed to be used as a complete Training Manual. During the past three…

This document includes the descriptions of the 179 projects that received support from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education in 1975-76. The content represents resources for change, not capital resources, but those noncapital resources essential to improvement--people, institutions, and ideas. The Project Directors named are…