An overview of unemployment in the United States is presented, including its meaning and extent, its history, and current efforts to save the situation. Illustrative policies of other countries are examined for clues to assuring full employment for Americans. In 1975, 7 million Americans, mostly minorities and blue collar and unskilled workers,…

The objective of this paper is to discuss the utilization of Stake's theory of responsive evaluation by a unit in state government charged with the evaluation of the Illinois Migrant Program. Through interviews with state and local Title I staff, we were able to discover program purposes and concerns and to later conceptualize these concerns into…

Action must be taken to eliminate sex-role stereotyping. Elementary school textbooks are tracking children into narrowly defined sex roles which are demeaning to girls and detrimental to both girls and boys. The first step is to research the material currently in use in order to collect specific illustrations with which to arm oneself. The next…

The study examines the economic implications in Wisconsin of the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guideline which requires employers to treat maternity leave as a temporary disability. First, the static cost of the maternity leave guideline to employers is estimated for the State of Wisconsin. Second, some examination of the economic…

The legality of certain teaching practices is being questioned. The controversy arises from the application of the 1909 copyright law to the use of the new copying technology. This information aid considers the current copyright law and the needs and practices of educators. The stickiest part of copyright law is the fair use doctrine, which allows…

This is a commentary on Lau v. Nichols, in which the issue is stated as the constitutional right of non-English-speaking children to a meaningful public education. The principal legal argument of the plaintiffs is that the San Francisco school district's "English-only" policy denies them equal protection of the laws by placing non-English-speaking…

One hundred books, papers, and articles that were available from November 1973, to January, 1974, are listed in this bibliography of Polish educational materials. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author or editor under the following subjects: history of education, laws and legislation, general information on education, social and educational…

Experts testifying at the National Nutrition Policy study hearings on June 19-21, 1974 in Washington, at the invitation of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, recommended several steps which the committee staff feel merit a prompt Congressional response. This report prepared by staff incorporates those recommendations,…

The manual is the third of six student manuals for use in a course on occupational health and safety for supervisory personnel. The manual contains lessons 6 and 7 of the 15 consecutively-numbered lessons, each of which contains study questions (and answers) interwoven with the text and review questions at the end of each section. Lesson 6 covers…

This report, the third in a three-volume study evaluating day care in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, contains a profile of various day care characteristics and an estimate of the potential impact of the proposed federal day care requirements on current day care costs in the four states. The profile includes data describing the definitions…

Summarized in monograph form are proceedings of a 2-day inter-regional training conference held in 1974 on modern dimensions of epilepsy. It is explained that a major conference purpose was to elicit participant suggestions regarding goals and program development, educational and research needs, and funding guidelines. Included are the orientation…

What has been called bilingual education in this country presently has as its sole concern the linguistic performance of the student, thereby neglecting the implementation of a coherent conceptual system which takes into consideration the ways in which the student comes to understand the world around him. Furthermore, bilingual education has not…

The study was made of state and local legal and non-legal problems involved with reaching non-public and out-of-school youth with an approved driver education course; and to develop recommendations and guidelines by which the states could plan to meet the standard requirement. Questionnaires were sent to 50 state supervisors. Data were divided…

To determine the continuation rate of Title III projects after termination of Federal funding in December 1967, questionnaire response data from directors of 149 projects were analyzed, and a study was made of the respective project proposals on file at the Title III bureau of USOE. For purposes of analysis, projects were categorized by…

Forty-two state plans for vocational education and related legislation were reviewed to identify patterns in the administration, organization, and supervision of area vocational and technical schools. Also, a survey instrument was prepared and administered to junior college presidents, public school superintendents, and nationally recognized…