This publication is part of a curriculum series developed by the Regional Marine Science Project for use by teachers and administrators. Field work and field trips, being advocated as an integral part of the curriculum, are explained at length. The rationale and techniques of field ecology are offered relating them to the need for field trips and…

This is the seventh annual report of the National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services. Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the National Advisory Council will cease to exist with the implementation of the new, 1974 education amendments. In essence, Title III will be continued in Title IV of the new…

Resource acquisition is a general process active in all social organizations. The relative success of organizational resource mobilization determines whose goals and values will be met. Several factors impinge on resource mobilization, including suborganizational levels, technological sophistication, professionalization, and unionization.…

This study was made to determine the need for a cooperative approach to planning services in Santa Clara County, and should such a need exist, to determine appropriate organizational and government structures, suggested objectives and activities, and suitable resource allocations to achieve the suggested objectives. The resulting position paper…

Network-based management procedures serve as valuable aids in organizational management, achievement of objectives, problem solving, and decisionmaking. Network techniques especially applicable to educational management systems are the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and the critical path method (CPM). Other network charting…

The product of an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project produced by the staff and administration of the Finlayson Elementary School in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for American Indian students, this handbook is designed as a guide to educators engaging in open concept education. Constituting a model, this handbook incorporates the…

This report provides a program description and evaluation of the second year of operation of the Cognitively Oriented Urban Prekindergarten, a developmental educational program for low income Black and Puerto Rican families. Aimed at preventing educational regression, the project is primarily designed to form an important link between the Early…

This publication presents in summary form the development of the two end products of the Trenton Title III project: (1) an educational planning system called STEP (System for Tranton's Educational Planning) and (2) a new planning office, the Division of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. Included is the outline of the planning cycle, a discussion…

The purposes, organization, and services of the curriculum resources center are discussed in detail. (See TM 001 363 for a description of the total project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 364-372, 374.) (MS)