Noting the drastic, sudden increase in enrollment in the post-Sputnik period in Russian language courses and the resultant difficulty of finding qualified instructors, the author describes a rapid-reading methodology which concentrates on forms and expressions prevalent in technical writing. Description of suggested teaching techniques…

A three-year project to investigate black student utilization of the public community college in the South began with a year-long study of the attitudes of black students enrolled in high schools and junior colleges in five communities. Trained interviewers talked at length with approximately 400 students and with teachers, parents, and community…

This report presents the papers and summarizes the group discussions of a workshop aimed at alleviating the problems of higher education access for large numbers of black and disadvantaged young people. The workshop brought together approximately 75 Mississippi school counselors and other participants for group sessions. The counselors, black and…

The study explored how extension personnel in Pakistan and the United States are selected and trained. Criteria for selection training curricula, areas of specialization, entry into professional practice, conducting of extension work, and extent of inservice training given to overcome problems and difficulties, were studied. Suggestions for…

This report is the 27th in the series of annual estimates of public school statistics. It includes estimates of the administrative organization, pupils, high school graduates, professional staff and salaries, and revenues and expenditures in the fall of 1968. National, regional, and State estimates are shown for the school year 1968-69, and…

A Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) center, designed to train graduate students in CAI, conduct learning research, and develop prototypic instructional materials and systems, is described in this report. The problems of dealing with financial needs for staff salaries and computer costs, recruiting experienced personnel and identifying qualified…

East Central and Southeastern Europe, considered as "Eastern Eruope," are the subject of a three-year survey of language and area studies undertaken by several committees of specialists of the American Council of Learned Societies. Four basic goals of the project include: (1) a survey of graduate training and research needs, (2) an evaluation of…

A three-phase "journeyman" approach, inaugurated at The University of California (Los Angeles), to the training of teaching assistants in English is described in this article. The apprentice first works as an assistant to a regular staff member. The second phase involves the teaching of a freshman English section. Finally, with advancement to…

This study is concerned with the role of educational institutions as mechanisms of labor market selection, in particular the role of high schools for terminal graduates. The aspects of this process under primary concern are racial differences in economic achievement generated and sustained by educational institutions in their capacity as…

The Heman Street Preschool was organized to serve two main purposes: (1) T o provide a group of three- and four-year olds with a preschool experience which would increase their chances for later success in school; and (2) To train future teachers and teaching aides to work effectively in a preschool program. The program focused on four groups: the…

This report is the 29th in the series of annual estimates of public school statistics. It includes estimates of the administrative organization, pupils, high school graduates, professional staff and salaries, and revenues and expenditures. The text presents national data for each of the past 10 years and defines the basic series of statistics. The…

This 18th annual national survey of public elementary and secondary school statistics presents data as of fall 1971 for each State, the District of Columbia, outlying areas, and for 20 of the largest cities. Summaries of trends are presented with the compendium of tables which constitutes the main body of the report. The survey provides current…

A questionnaire was mailed to an unstratified random sample of 250 graduates from a population of 2,159 who graduated between 1966 and 1970, in order to obtain comprehensive data regarding the demographic characteristics of graduates, the graduates' evaluation of experiences at Delhi College, the status of employed graduates, evaluation of…

This report is the third in a series based on data from regional state colleges and universities. It includes comparative findings from extensive questionnaire data from 1974-75 and recent data from other sources. The critical areas examined include enrollments, degrees and programs offered, libraries, recent innovative programs, budgeting and…

During fall 1974, the University of Maryland at College Park evaluated its research programs as part of the decennial accreditation process. Data were collected on a comparison group of 35 state universities in order to place the Maryland activities in a national context. Most of the data presented in this report extend over a 10-year period, 1965…