The objective of the Stanford evaluation team was to identify philosophical and conceptual, as well as technical, considerations which might guide the evaluation of the proposals made by the nine USOE-funded elementary teacher training models. The nine models were studied intensively by sub-teams, discussed and criticized by the entire team over a…

This program planning guide for school district use in planning secondary, post-secondary, and adult programs in home economics is an enlarged version of the Home Economics Section of "Planning Education for Nevada's Growth--A Master Plan for Education." Part I, The Prevocational Years, covers: (1) planning programs, (2) present practices, (3)…

This report provides a simplified description of flexible-modular scheduling and of several types of instructional strategies that can be advantageously applied to high school curricula. Group size, facilities, and teaching roles are considered in the overall picture of flexible-modular scheduling. Large group instruction can conserve space,…

Described are five elementary level resource room models which were developed in a 1-week Michigan summer institute and followup sessions to serve special education students in regular classes. Each of the models is explained in terms of an introduction, description of the resource room setting and components, population identification, program…

The purpose of this study was to gather, through historical examination of Santa Clara County and its educational institutions, "base-line data" for the development of useful models for educational planning. This paper describes the growth and development of schools in the county and presents a list of factors that have contributed to…

Contained in this package are two pieces of literature related to the Australian Science Education Project: A Guide to ASEP/Introduction to ASEP (leader edition) and A Guide to ASEP/ASEP Units and Their Use. The Guide to ASEP is a set of teacher education materials designed for use by teachers and others who wish to learn about the Australian…

All educational and formal schooling systems are culturally based insofar as they are products of the cultures that initiate them. The question that this paper addresses itself to is the relationship of the formal schooling of disadvantaged children to their sub-cultural education. What is unique about the cultural model as it is discussed here is…

The first of the document's major components is the report of the Cleveland three-year career development program. Intended to bridge the gap between school and earning a living for students in an urban poverty area, the program begins in elementary school and continues through high school. Eight goals and related performance objectives were…

The methodology of costing an education program by identifying the resources it utilizes places all costs within the framework of staff, equipment, materials, facilities, and services. This paper suggests that this methodology is much stronger than the more traditional budgetary and cost per pupil approach. The techniques of data collection are…

This is a preliminary projection of holistic, alternative future patterns that might emerge among the institutions of education in the United States during the next few decades. These alternative educational patterns (AEPs) are associated in each case with broader contexts offered by selected Contingent U.S. Patterns (CUSPs). It is expected that…

A review of assessment and planning aids is presented to provide the local school district with a practical and a theoretical framework on which to base its planning for a feasibility study of a year-round school program. The first and most crucial decision that must be made is the determination that educational programing is the basis on which…

Part 1 of this report outlines the concept of vouchers and the nature and objectives of the New Rochelle study. The more pertinent work tasks undertaken to accomplish the objectives are contained in the appendix. The authors describe their position regarding the voucher plan, highlight its major elements, and outline the steps the district should…

A study was designed to examine the contribution of intrinsic arousal (individual differences) and induced arousal to children's comprehension of film content with short- and long-term retention intervals. Intrinsic arousal was measured by a salivary response measure; induced arousal was manipulated by white auditory noise. The latter was…

The Student Accountability Model (SAM) was developed by a consortium of 12 members, to provide a system of procedures for identifying and describing California community college occupational students and for obtaining information about them after they leave college. The two components of the model are the Student Accounting Component…

Studies on mass communication and national development and studies of press freedom were reviewed to construct a macro-level theoretical model of press freedom development including seven key concepts: availability of resources, urbanism, educational level, mass media development, accountability of governors, stress on government, and government…