The School District of Philadelphia developed inservice and other training programs to help regular teachers, administrators, and other school staff; parents; and nonhandicapped students become aware of and sensitive to the educational needs and rights of handicapped children. Four elements were considered essential minimums to the overall…

Updating a similar booklet published in 1975, this guide is written to assist local school districts in organizing their energy conservation efforts to maintain vital services and programs and to provide the healthful, safe, and comfortable physical environment necessary for schools. Topics covered include the composition of the district energy…

The author reviews the challenges of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, notes some of its problems, and describes the cooperative approach of Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and the Northwest Ohio Special Education Regional Resource Center to overcome those problems. Among issues cited regarding implementing the law…

The National Institute of Education's (NIE) process of studying minimum competency testing (MCT) includes: (1) a clarification hearing to provide a public forum to discuss divergent views on salient issues related to MCT programs; (2) two investigative teams to explore the different perspectives on the issues, build comprehensive cases which…

This guidebook offers practical advice on planning, administering, and evaluating telecourses. An introductory section provides a definition and history of telecourses. The following section covers procedures such as planning for implementation of the telecourse, securing approval for the telecourse, deciding on the credit and grade options the…

The document offers proceedings of the First National Conference on Special Recreation for the handicapped which coincided with the dedication of White Oak Village/Mountwood Park (West Virginia), a recreational facility designed to serve as a national model for meeting the recreational needs of the handicapped. An introductory paper by E. Lehew…

The educational material described is designed for the use of administrators and all personnel who are involved in the training of teacher aides. Topics covered in the described course are the project coordinator, advisory council, school administrators and teachers, trainers, research team, teacher aide trainees, subject matter consultants, the…

This working paper provides an initial discussion point for the construction of a national location service as a component of a national library and information service network. The study described had a dual purpose: (1) expansion of the Register of Additional Locations (RAL) data base by cooperative means, which involved identifying…

The Message Delivery System described, a facility that will link automatic bibliographic services and permit the transmission of messages among the various services, is one of the basic requirements for the development of a comprehensive computerized bibliographic system of nationwide scope. The system will enable users of one system to have…

Reported is a needs assessment study designed to determine priority needs for a college Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for setting objectives and long range planning. Opinions were obtained from students, graduates, faculty, and employers. Each of the groups showed agreement on three priority items: (1) practical managerial…

The conceptual foundation for the career education program in Guam is presented in the document, which can serve as a resource for others wishing to implement similar programs. Rationales for the four-phase system (awareness, exploration, preparation, and continuing) are discussed in terms of students, teachers, administration, and society. They…

The report evaluates the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative Career Education Project in eastern Kentucky. The project staff involved personnel from Morehead University, Eastern Kentucky University, Bowling Green and Owensboro, and from the Kentucky State Department of Education in workshops, inservice training, demonstration units, and…

The introduction of the open classroom concept, individualized instruction, independent study, use of technology, and other innovations provide supportive evidence that there may be new ways to minimize the limitations imposed on elementary school physical education programs by teachers, students' ability, or facilities. In view of this, a…

The reading program planning procedures presented in this manual are based upon material developed by the National Right to Read Program. The contents include: "Introduction"; "Step One: Right to Read Center Data," which discusses the establishment of baseline data for a particular school; "Step Two: Needs Assessment…

The New England Consortium for the Right to Read Plan of Action is designed to assist participating school systems in meeting the national Right to Read goals by 1980. The purpose of the New England project differs from that of most projects in that it seeks to eliminate the possibility of failure rather than to deal with failure after it occurs.…