This paper evaluates the extent to which certain program activities such as discussion activities, "it" games, group games, swimming, arts and crafts, special events, written activities, or transitional activities measurably decrease anti-social and non-social behavior among anti-social children and, likewise, increase the incidence of pro-social…

After describing some current problems in vocational guidance and summarizing relevant knowledge and theory in the field, this paper presents some practical plans, materials, and ideas for providing more useful vocational assistance to people of all ages. The paper reviews such prominent vocational guidance approaches as vocational information and…

Presented are guidelines based on statutes, rules, and regulations of the federal government and the South Dakota state board of education to be used by school districts for planning and implementing comprehensive special education programs for exceptional children. Noted are specifications for special school accreditation. Provided are pertinent…

A deposit collection of library materials in a familiar place may be the only way disadvantaged adults will learn that the public library has something for them. Many libraries have used deposit collections successfully in serving this group by placing them in classrooms, in bookmobiles, in crossroads stores, in private homes, in clinic waiting…

A description of the NET-SCHOLAR system, an on-line aid for naive users of the Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) Computer Network, is provided. The discussion focuses upon the system's representation and handling of functional and procedural information and its ability to deal with action verbs, all within the context of the ARPA…

This document gives detailed instructions for filling out application forms for child advocacy demonstration projects. Proposals for pilot projects to be operated within school neighborhoods may be submitted by institutions, agencies, or consortiums to the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped and the National Bureau of Mental Health. The major…

As in two other projects in Cleveland and Newark, New Jersey, this project was set up in Baltimore to provide technical assistance in designing ways to meet in-plant skills needs by upgrading job skills on entry workers through High Intensity Training (HIT). Skill Upgrading, Inc. was established in Maryland to provide training and manpower…

This report shows in detail how cost analysis of educational programs has been used at the junior college level. The primary objective of the National Junior College Finance Study is to determine the cost of educating a student in a specified curriculum and to utilize these data to demonstrate the relationship of the unit cost of each of several…

Evaluation of the preservice portion (summer 1969) of the 2-year fourth cycle Teacher Corps Program at the University of Pittsburgh involved 1) determination of objectives for the preservice program; 2) literature and document search; 3) interviews with interns, instructional consultants, corps administrators and university instructors, public…

"Carrascolendas" was a thirty-program television series designed to aid in the bilingual instruction of Mexican-American children in the first and second grades. A systematic evaluation of the production and the effect of the series is presented here. Evaluation of the process of program development noted that the series was completed and did…

This study was undertaken to show why area vocational education programs should be developed at both secondary and postsecondary levels and to develop a model for organizational and curricular patterns for vocational education at the local level. Empirical data were analyzed to show the need for vocational education in Michigan, and a…

The central purpose of this book is to review the present state of the art in adult basic education teacher training. Each of the chapters of the book was developed specifically for the Workshop to Increase and to Improve University Teacher Training Programs in Adult Basic Education, which was held at The University of Chicago in March 1969. The…

Described are the philosophy, organization, and curriculum of programs functioning under the Bureau for the Education of the Physically Handicapped (BEPH), which administers educational programs for approximately 10,000 physically handicapped children in New York City. Following are explanation of the general principles guiding the development of…

To help educators obtain more specific comparative data on preschool programs, this paper develops some common constructs for the objective assessment of any program. The constructs proposed are: (1) density, the total amount of sensory stimulation encountered within a given time span; (2) variety, the extent to which the program provides…

This report describes the training provided by West Virginia University in cooperation with the AFL-CIO Appalachian Council, of 114 union leaders in the Appalachian Region for work in community action. Some objectives of the training periods, divided into four 1-week sessions, were to help the leaders organize low-income groups for effective…