This selective, annotated bibliography provides elementary, secondary, and undergraduate teachers, students, and curriculum designers with 47 references on population education. The bibliography is divided into four sections listing citations on basic reference data for the study of population, specific population education materials, points of…

The Teaching Methods and Materials Centre of the University of Papua and New Guinea had four main objectives for 1973: (1) the collection of teaching and learning materials, (2) teacher and inservice education, (3) provision of information services for students and faculty at the university, and (4) research and curriculum development. Details are…

In 1972, the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) identified experts to study and report on the information needs of selected groups within the United States population: six occupational and professional groups, various age groups, women, the handicapped, the isolated, and ethnic groups--mainly the Mexican American…

An annual event since 1951, this conference was held to: (1) review the previous year's activities of the Rural Manpower Service and its cooperating agencies; (2) discuss plans for the new year; and (3) study the problems of rural areas. Most of the 250 persons attending the 3-day conference were officials of the Manpower Administration and its…

South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, established by Act 194 of the General Assembly in 1967, was created as the agency of the state government specializing in higher education. The commission's primary concern is the strengthening of all the state institutions of higher learning, to the end that quality education and training beyond high…

Purpose of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission is to reduce and ultimately eliminate discrimination by: (1) developing programs to implement the laws; (2) studying the extent and character of discrimination in the State; (3) issuing publications and research; and (4) making recommendations to the Governor and Legislature concerning civil rights…

The 1974 National Conference for Librarians for the Blind and Physically Handicapped was held May 13-16 in Washington, D.C. This report summarizes and answers the questions raised there on such topics as: (1) regulations on the use of materials; (2) copyright, free mailing privileges, and general postal regulations; (3) procurement, distribution,…

The national focus on occupational education highlights the responsibility of education to provide programs relevant to the needs of society. Representatives from 42 states and three foreign countries heard 13 presentations on such subjects as finance, research, advisory committees, health programs, and cooperative education. These presentations…

The 23rd Annual State of Michigan Personnel Officers' Conference examined the workings of employee relations with employee organizations. The highlights are reported in this manual. A panel of speakers from industry and education provided conference participants with different points of view and a broadened outlook in the difficult areas of…

The reflections of 79 participants attending a national conference on special adult degree programs are synthesized. The central theme of the first session was the identification of the most appropriate content for a liberal studies curriculum. Session 2 expressed concern over major problems: the transient nature of man; the role of accrediting…

The annual bulletin of the French 8 section of the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America is presented with the texts of papers read at both the 1969 and 1970 sessions. The 1970 papers, in French, include Jean Louis Darbelnet's "Etude Sociolinguistique des contacts entre 1'Anglais et le Francais au Canada et en…

Significant junior college problems and research approaches to them are outlined in this conference report. Beside providing a comprehensive description of proceedings, the report presents the results of discussion groups made up of the conference participants. The participants in these discussion groups assumed themselves members of junior…

Major purposes for the preparation of this report on public school adult education in Utah were: to provide the public with a description of achievements, trends, and needs, and with meaningful cost accounting information; to make comparisons and analyses of adult education by program, school district, and year; and to provide the adult education…

The proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf held at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education (March 16-18, 1970) consist of papers related to communicative television for the deaf student. Topics covered include mediated interaction with individual television…

Eight papers selected from the CEC Northwest Regional Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia, October 21-24, 1970) cover pre and inservice teacher training. The role of university personnel in the training of special education, training from the point of view of a director of special education, the role of the clinical professor in upgrading…