The goals of the project were to strengthen the curriculum management capabilities of the Oklahoma Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center (CIMC); to expand its efforts toward curriculum management in career education through coordination of efforts in development, dissemination, and diffusion; and to maximize resources for curriculum…

Two junior high schools for enrollments of 800-900 students each (Grades 7-12), are being constructed concurrently with an instructional materials center, a multipurpose building, and a vocational school on a 150-acre site in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each school is to have its own principal, assistant principal, counselors, secretaries, and aides.…

The Afro-American Curriculum Office and Resource Center, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, had the general purpose of upgrading the instructional level and the material resources concerning the black American's contributions to this country's past and present life. Although the project was directly administered…

A collection of reports of the presentations and workshops held at an international conference on the teaching of English as a Second Language includes: "More about Teaching Idioms to Intermediate Students" (Frank E. Bell); "Learning Language from Literature and Literature from Language" (Frank E. Bell); "Negotiating a…

This report evaluates various programs considered to have been designed to supplement instructional programs for educationally disadvantaged children through curriculum development, especially in reading. Programs involving media centers, mathematics, reading, reading aids, high intensity learning centers, psychological services, primary high…

A task force on school library media issues was appointed in Wisconsin to describe the current program status in the state; identify those factors that are preventing the fulfillment of the library media program's mission--that every student in public elementary and secondary schools in Wisconsin has a right to a comprehensive program of library…

The collection of California's exemplary practices in career education included in this document was chosen because each one illustrates an exemplary practice in a specific aspect of career education. It is also noted that each practice has demonstrated effectiveness and each can be replicated without unusual additional resources. Following the…

The goal of this project was to eliminate sex bias in education through the development of student and teacher awareness of sex bias. Four objectives were developed for the first year project: (1) the development and implementation of nonsexist curriculum in grades 4-12, (2) the development of teachers' and librarians' awareness of sexism in…

This document describes the work of the Spanish Curricula Development Center, a project funded by the Bilingual Education Program Branch of the United States Office of Education. It is the function of the Center to develop multidisciplinary resource kits to help support the major areas of instruction in Spanish at the primary level. Forty-eight…

This forth annual report covers the activities of the Research and Development Center in Educational Stimulation during the 1968-69 fiscal year. To reflect the Center's new programmatic structure, the description of the Center's objectives and activities is organized as follows: (1) Administrative program; (2) substantive programs, including art,…

School media programs in a variety of settings within the state of Georgia that have proven to be successful are described in this publication from the Georgia Department of Education. For each entry, the school, media center, and specific program component of interest are described. The components include: (1) modernization of a media center…

This book presents the results of an evaluation of Library Power, an initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund that provided support for school library development in 19 communities. Following an introductory chapter, the chapters are organized around key questions of the evaluation. Chapters 2 through 4 address the implementation of…

The Library Power program is a school improvement initiative of the DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund that began in 1988, designed to promote the full integration of the school library media program into the school curriculum in public elementary and junior high/middle schools. With a total investment exceeding $45 million, Library Power is the…