Faculty termination criteria of community/junior colleges in Texas and Michigan were studied, and case law was researched to determine how definitive the criteria need to be and how the courts have interpreted general criteria. In Texas, 37 public two-year colleges were surveyed, with 25 replying. Of these, 11 institutions supplied policy…

During the 1972-1973 school year the Intercultural Social Studies Project for Secondary Schools created and maintained a culture studies network involving 103 teachers and their students. More than 50 "Fieldstaff Perspectives" were designed in booklet, photograph, map, and simulation-games formats for field testing within the project network.…

In this volume, ESEA Title I projects related to instructional practices and student cognitive performance, carried out in Philadelphia during 1971-1972, are evaluated. The six projects in this cluster are: Class for Mentally Retarded/Emotionally Distrubed Children; English as a Second Language; Improvement of Reading Skills (Reading Skills…

Army researchers developed a system of procedures designed to enable training personnel to assess the utility of an existing flight training device for new training purposes. Such adaptations became a salient feature of military training due to the continuous modification of operational equipment. Using a candidate device for rotary wing training,…

The project involved an inservice workshop for teachers, a series of experiences for intermediate elementary students in an outdoor environmental interpretation center, a one-week outdoor resident camp program for students in grades five and six, and a six-week summer environmental/ecological program for mentally retarded and orthopedically…

Having examined the preliminary study of the legal and technical aspects of International regulations in education for international understanding, cooperation, and peace, the Executive Board of Unesco decided to include this question in the Provisional Agenda of the seventeenth session of the General Conference, Paris, 1972. The text of that…

More than 90 educational leaders from 39 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories participated in a 3-day conference designed to provide a forum for presentations and discussions dealing with the issues and problems associated with the state level administration and articulation of post-secondary education. The…

In the State of Washington, 297 of 316 local school districts operated Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act projects during Fiscal Year 1972 with approximately 12,272,000 dollars appropriated. The bulk of Title I funds (85 percent) supported project activities in the 25 largest school districts where most of the target populations are…

The seven papers in this volume cover varied topics in the field of current linguistics. The first paper, on underlying phonological representations, is written to show that, on the basis of syllabification, vowel quality is a redundant aspect of English phonology and that stress assignment can also be based on syllabification. The second paper…

The anthology presents Indian works which reflect the attitudes of the native Indian people of the State of Nevada, commencing with the possible first White-Indian contact in the 1820's when Anglo American fur trappers and Mexican traders entered the Great Basin. The writer points out in the Preface that no effort has been made to exclude native…

This annual report surveys activities of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and summarizes disarmament developments for the calendar year 1968. An act of Congress states that ACDA must have such a position within the Government that it can provide the President, the Secretary of State, other officials of the executive branch, and the…

The conference summarized in this document represented an exploratory effort concerning the role and objectives of geography, including its predictive capabilities in both studying and directing the future spatial organization of the earth as the home of man. Initial conference presentations by Ronald Abler and William Warntz helped focus…

Medical technicians such as ambulance attendants must be trained to administer life-saving measures to the acutely ill and injured and transport them safely to a medical facility. Thus, the purpose of this conference was to bring together, for a discussion of all aspects of emergency medical services, representatives of all those groups which are…

This collection of 20 papers, initially presented at the International Reading Association convention in Anaheim in May 1970, is aimed both at those preparing to teach and those actively teaching. Part 1, Basic Reading Skills: Methods and Content, has three articles on word recognition skills, each aimed at different grade levels, followed by…

This is a report of the 1967 conference at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, of Canadian, English, Welsh, and American members of the educational profession. Setting and context of the meeting are described in Chapter 1, noting inter-processional and international tensions. John I. Goodlad's address, which charted the past two decades of curriculum…