This study was an attempt to document and analyze the national effort of Columbia, South America to resolve its educational problems by the process of organizational and administrative reform. (Author/RK)

A group report to an International Council for Adult Education workshop in New Delhi offers broad guidelines to assist national or individual organizations prepare manuals for adult educators; guidelines are offered in the areas of scope and objectives, functionaries, language, problem-identification, assessment and evaluation, follow-up,…

Community colleges, four-year colleges, and other training programs have developed special services for head injury survivors. The need for these services is explained using statistics from the National Head Injury Foundation, and head injury is defined. The person with head injury may experience impairment in such functions as memory,…

This eighth chapter in "The Challenge of Counseling in Middle Schools" contains five articles on the organization of a middle school counseling program. "The Counselor and Modern Middle-Level Schools: New Roles in New Schools," by Paul George, examines characteristics of successful schools and considers some new roles for the counselor. "Teacher…

An introduction lists the council members and observers present at the meeting, and a summary is provided of the following meeting business: (1) opening of the session by the director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow; (2) election of the bureau; (3) adoption of the agenda; (4) examination of the General Information Programme's current activities in…

The booklet examines issues and strategies in serving learning disabled (LD) secondary students. Chapter 1, on program development, reviews such program options as varieties of the resource room model and self-contained class and examines three major factors involved in decisions about program emphases: (1) administrative practices, (2) teacher…

Intended to provide a general understanding of the opportunities and problems associated with low power television (LPTV), this report deals with the legal, technical, financial, and marketplace issues that should be methodically assessed in order to establish an LPTV service. The three chapters in Part 1 address basic issues and provide a brief…

Primarily intended to familiarize ADP (automatic data processing) policy and information resource managers with the approach to computer security certification and accreditation found in "Guideline to Computer Security Certification and Accreditation," Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS-PUB) 102, this overview…

For almost 20 years, from 1917 to the 1930s, the traveling Chautauqua circuits and festivals brought education, inspiration, and entertainment to remote and not-so-remote communities. Now in the 1980s, emphasis is once more being placed on the value of local community life, on self-reliance and mutual help with respect to the social, cultural, and…

Reprinted are seven major priority recommendations of the 1973 report of the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children as it relates to the basic educational rights of the handicapped. (GW)

This annotated bibliography was compiled in response to a growing need for improved management of family planning and population programs. Entries in this bibliography all pertain to the management of family planning/population education programs. The entries are organized under the headings of family planning program management, managerial…

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (92d, Boston, Massachusetts, April, 1968).

A survey of resources is provided for improving youth programs conducted by religious organizations. After a brief introductory chapter establishing the focus of the document, the second chapter offers an overview of adolescent physical, intellectual, moral, social, emotional, and religious development. In addition, the attitudes of young…

Several aspects of unplanned system change in schools are investigated in this paper. Researchers relied heavily on current theoretical perspectives on the nature of educational systems, particularly those that emphasize the "loosely coupled" nature of educational organizations. Two hypotheses were tested. The first is that natural…

GENERAL POINTERS ON A NURSERY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ARE GIVEN. SUBJECTS DEALT WITH ARE--CHARACTERISTICS OF 2- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS, DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS, THE CURRICULUM AND THE TEACHER'S RELATIONSHIP TO IT, SCHEDULING, SUBJECT AREAS OF ART, MUSIC, LANGUAGE, DRAMATIC PLAY, NATURE, AND OUTDOOR PLAY, SANITATION AND SAFETY,…