This demonstration aims at eliminating major obstacles blocking career advancement of human service paraprofessionals. It seeks to develop new options for upgrading workers in four occupations: addiction services, child development, occupational therapy, and teaching. The policies and practices of educational institutions, employers, unions,…

The information in this report is directed to both the general information needs of educational researchers and the more specialized needs of personnel administering programs under P.L. 81-874--School Assistance in Federally Affected Areas--and P.L. 89-10--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. For this reason, this publication…

This document presents details for a supplemental oral language development program for children in the elementary grades learning to speak American English as a second language. The booklet discusses the purpose and objectives of the program and describes the materials to be used, the physical set-up, teaching techniques and learning activities…

This report describes a one-day conference intended to advance knowledge concerning social change in Japan and the United States. Characterizing the change as one from industrial production dominance to knowledge production dominance; the conference addressed related questions such as defining post-industrial society, informational society, and…

A battery of tests, designed expressly for use in assessment of disadvantaged adolescents enrolled in youth-work training programs, was validated predictively against both short-term (program completion) and longer-term (post-program) behavioral outcome dimensions. Measures of the battery displayed their best validities with such longer-term…

An eight-year project--Project SACI--begun in 1969 is introducing technology into Brazil's educational system. It is based upon the hypotheses that technology can deliver education to more students, increase achievement, and provide cost-effective teacher education. To rest these hypotheses, Project SACI aims to bring satellite transmission of…

An essential prerequisite to reform of present methods of financing elementary and secondary schools and the development of an equitable, adequate, and workable system of school finance is a precise understanding of how the existing system works and its impact on different school districts and population groups. This report documents the existing…

This study describes and analyzes the state of English teaching in Colombian public secondary schools in 1971. Examined are the present status of the Colombian school system, the English curriculum, the attitudes of English students, and the organizations which contribute to the study of English in Colombia. The methods used to teach the language…

The educational trends identified in this report was those common to the young people of the member states of the Council of Europe. Emphasis is on the three most outstanding trends. The first, the concept of life-long education, involves an extension of pre-school education and continuing education for adults. The second consideration is the…

Two Automated Apprenticeship Training (AAT) courses were developed for Air Force Security Police Law Enforcement and Security specialists. The AAT was a systematized audio-visual approach to self-paced job training employing an easily operated teaching device. AAT courses were job specific and based on a behavioral task analysis of the two…

This book presents part of the proceedings from the Third Annual Conference on Behavior Analysis in Education which was designed to provide Project Follow Through with the most current research products in the field, and to serve participating researchers by providing a medium for exchange of information regarding the state of the art and its most…

This document begins with clarifications of the State and the local responsibility for education. The main body of the report is given over to committee recommendations covering (1) school program and services; (2) professional development for board members, school administrators, teachers, and other noninstructional personnel; (3) educational…

This report presents an analysis of Illinois' present educational finance system and makes recommendations for future legislation to improve the system. The report discusses (1) State constitutional provisions, (2) the present tax structure and alternative taxing methods, (3) proposed distribution formulas and equalization methods, (4) financing…

Consumer education programs responsive to the needs of students enrolled in two-year colleges and other institutes at the postsecondary level are described in this publication, one of six in a series prepared by the Educational Division of Consumers Union for the Consumer Education Materials Project (CEMP). The case studies in this volume are…

This report presents objectives, activities, and results of the three Appalachian Right to Read Community Based Centers from May, 1972 to August, 1973. The primary function of the Centers has been to demonstrate direct home instruction, by paraprofessionals, of individually prescribed reading instruction to isolated rural Appalachian adults and…