Little if any attempt has been made to speak to the issue of how geographic education and environmental education can be combined within the framework of geography. One of the major problems has been that people fail to see the relevance of abstract environmental concepts to their own lives and life styles. Studies reflect both a serious lack of…

Innovative programs taking place in Massachusetts elementary and secondary schools in the areas of school environment, exceptional children, curriculum areas, and wholesale experimentation, are described in this issue. Project descriptions provide background, objectives, practices, and indications of success, as well as contacts for information…

This issue of Kaleidoscope, which focuses on projects involving innovative educational change funded under ESEA Title III, describes 60 programs in both elementary and secondary schools in Massachusetts. The projects cover a wide range of educational interests including: curriculum development, environmental education, individualized instruction,…

Reported is the 1963 special summer dropout prevention program financed by the President's emergency fund and by various other national, state, and local agencies and organizations. The document summarizes the dropout campaign and describes briefly the types of programs and methods used to identify and contact dropouts and potential dropouts. Also…

This 71-page annual report, June 1968-June 1969, focuses on the purpose, development, and work of the Arizona Center for Early Childhood Education administered through the University of Arizona's College of Education. The Center is committed to the systematic analysis, continued development, validation and modification of a new and existing…

The substance of this manual centers on the development and implementation of the Bowling Green, Kentucky career education program. Preparing students for life-centered careers, the school system has developed, through a three year process, a program that involves every teacher, guidance counselor and administrator and permeates the fabric of the…

The proposal describes the history of the Upper Mississippi River ECO-Center Environmental Education Project (funded by Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act), Carroll County, Illinois. The goal of the project, which began in July 1972, is to implement and coordinate a comprehensive environmental education program for the county's…

A report on the social studies curriculum in Virginia is the result of a study of the social studies program, kindergarten through grade 12, undertaken over a four year period. Special focus was placed on the four following areas: proliferation of elective course offerings in social studies at the senior high level; course offerings at grades…

The School of Library Science of North Carolina Central University continued for a second year its Title II-B Higher Education Act project designed to help meet the manpower needs of the public library profession as well as to recruit and train librarians for more effective use of the diverse learning media and resources appropriate for young…

This conceptual framework for the development and implementation of a career development continuum, K-14, in the State of Hawaii is comprised of three parts: (1) a rationale of underlying assumptions and principles; (2) a theoretical conceptualization of a career development continuum; and (3) a conceptualization of goals and objectives of career…

The purpose of this study was to develop a rationale for and to organize sequences of visual education concepts and skills that could function as a part of a secondary language arts program embodying the approaches of James Moffett. The literature on visual education was studied to identify those factors related specifically to professional…

This report reviews programs of individualized instruction in the basic skills of mathematics, language arts, science, and social education as well as in new curriculums which foster the skills needed for social education as well and emotional growth. The development and operation of an experience-based model for career education is described, and…

This is an interim report on the Drug Abuse Education Project, a three-year K-12 program designed primarily to train teachers and develop curriculum in the area of drug abuse. During the first year (1971-72), instructional units were developed at all grade levels by district teachers who had taken part in a training program that included a series…

A new approach to computer-assisted instruction (CAI) called Author Tutorial System (ATS) was field tested in a National Science Foundation-sponsored school consortium in New York State. ATS was designed as a package of authoring functions written in the APL interactive programing language to enable authors who are not experienced programers to…

The project's purpose was to develop a Grade 1-12 curriculum to assist students in dealing with knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors involved in the constructive control of aggression. Approximately 1,870 public and parochial students participated in piloting thecurriculum. Staff from the Lakewood City Schools and The Educational Research Council…