An education and communication project of the Environment and Technology Assessment Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is described in this report. The project for monitoring air dustfall resulted in the largest citizen-scientist air monitoring effort in the history of our nation. Nearly 21,000 public secondary school students and…

The issues, problems, and changing needs of occupational guidance provided the focus for a special colloquium held at the State University of New York at Albany. The colloquium was conducted by the Two-Year College Student Development Center. For over two days the sixteen participants dealt with the issues and the implications for action suggested…

As required by the Agricultural Act of 1970, the President has submitted to Congress this second annual report on the availability of government and government-assisted services to rural areas. The report pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of those Federal programs which have a significant impact on rural America and identifies the…

The goal of the second annual Rochester Symposium on the Two Year College Student was to examine various perspectives of student personnel services. The four papers included in this report are: (1) "Characteristics of Junior College Students"--which concludes that community colleges do have a significant impact and are really trying to meet the…

Reported here is a one-day conference of school superintendents and administrators called by the Quebec Minister of Education to discuss the Island of Montreal School Council's working paper, "Education and Development--an Approach to the Interventions of Education and Disadvantaged Environments." Topics discussed in the workshops…

Issues concerned with the certification of continuing education are addressed in this report. Topics of the keynote addresses are (1) Compulsory Continuing Education for Professionals, or The Gold Rush of '76, and (2) The Mystique of Certification, Education and Professionalism: In the Service of Whom? Panel presentation topics include: (1)…

This paper focuses on Computer Managed Instruction (CMI), the use of computers in managing the instructional environment. Discussed topics include: the uses, levels, and need for CMI; the relationship between CMI and technology; CMI and adaptive or individualized instruction; and operational aspects of CMI. Science and nonscience uses of CMI…

The purpose of the Florida Coordinating Council Development Project is to further develop the processes and procedures used by community college district coordinating councils so that all school districts and community colleges can cooperatively plan, implement, and evaluate an appropriate delivery system for vocational education, adult general…

This document includes contributed short papers and summaries of recorded remarks from four meetings of the 1968-1969 Two-Year College Chemistry Conferences. Topics include the two-year college chemistry teacher, chemistry laboratories, teaching first-year college chemistry, a sophomore level chemistry course for both majors and nonmajors, organic…

This publication, issued twice per year, includes proceedings from Two-Year College Chemistry Conferences and papers of special interest to the two-year college chemistry teacher. This issue contains discussions concerning the content of first-year, second-year, and other introductory courses in chemistry, such as special courses for nonscience…

The Annual Rural Manpower Report is a summary of events and programs affecting rural communities during 1975. Intended as a general overview of activities in rural Maine, it is not an indepth study of all manpower programs serving the state. Part I provides the annual summary and discusses planning, economic development, employment and…

Volume I of the First Annual Report of the National Day Care Study (NDCS) funded by the Office of Child Development presents an overview of the NDCS study, the background of federal involvement in day care, the day care policy issues being addressed, an overview of the study design and phases, uses and limits of study findings, and the results of…

Right to Read, a national effort to develop and improve the reading skills of all citizens, promotes the cooperative involvement of all segments of society, both public and private, in the achievement of this overall objective. This report details the development and implementation of each component of the National Reading Improvement Program…

This volume, the seventh in a series, is the first yearbook published after the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities was changed to the National Reading Conference for Colleges and Adults. All of the fourteen papers and reports presented at the annual meeting in December 1957 are included in this volume. Among topics covered…

This report presents a summary of the results and tabulated data obtained from the 1975 Survey of Graduate Science Student Support and Postdoctorals conducted annually by the National Science Foundation. Data from 7,664 science and engineering departments of 248 graduate schools and 104 medical schools are included. Highlights include: graduate…