Seventeen sets of opposite sex twins, 13 to 14 months old, were observed in a playroom situation with their mothers. Attachment behaviors, toy preference, style of play, and activity level were recorded. Analysis of four attachment behaviors indicated that girls looked at, vocalized to, and maintained proximity with their mothers significantly…

Responding to the need for improved vocational counseling services, the National Advisory Council has made specific recommendations to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Recommendations include: (1) work experience for vocational counselors, (2) the infusion of individuals with rich backgrounds in business, industry, and labor into…

Individual document evaluation profiles are reported in a three-page display for each of the 146 documents in the sample of NCEC information analysis products. The three pages are: (1) Title Page and Descriptive Data Report, (2) Reader (on 58 products) and Non-Reader Evaluation Data for: A. Practical Guidance Papers and Reviews, and B.…

This is a report of the proceedings of the 1971 Northern California Educational Conference. The Conference was small in scale, with less than one hundred participants; short in duration, lasting for only a part of a day; but presented two main speakers. Participants were particularly stimulated by being told that making the educational environment…

Presented are thirteen selected papers focusing on the relationship of special education to regular education. The first short paper explains the purpose of the conference, while the next three papers discuss various aspects of mental subnormality: that many cases of mental subnormality result from prenatal famine, that mental subnormality…

This conference report focuses on improving instruction and guidance in the junior college. Three main speeches are presented: (1) "Improving Instruction Through Setting of Behavioral Objectives," (2) "Faculty Development for the Improvement of Instruction and Guidance," and (3) "Implications for Student Personnel Programs From What We Know About…

The principal responsibility of the Rural Manpower Services Section of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Employment Security is to satisfy the needs of the farmer and to procure gainful employment for the workers. This responsibility is described in this 1971 Annual Report in terms of planning, economic trends, employment trends, mechanization, and the…

Project Redesign is a New York State Education Department longrange planning endeavor for the development of an education system's capacity and potential to continuously change and adapt to changing needs and objectives. During the past year, four carefully selected prototype districts began a redesign process that incorporates several unique…

This report, one in a series of three, is designed for elementary and secondary school teachers to familiarize them with the field of environmental education. Following a general orientation, specific problems and needs are identified and research related to these is noted. Current practices concerning environmental education programs and…

This report for 1969 highlights the changes and achievements made possible by the 1963 Act's new emphases and dimensions, and summarizes the issues that generated passage of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. It also includes a brief discussion of manpower trends and their implications for vocational-technical education. Based on…

In most countries, industrialization is increasingly regarded as one of the principle activities needed to achieve and sustain a high level of development. In order to plan, implement, and operate the many complex programs and projects, a number of development training institutes have come into being. A 1962 survey revealed that the focus of the…

Thirty vocational education teachers and supervisors who taught disadvantaged and/or handicapped students attended a 3-week inservice institute designed to: (1) provide them with the expertise to better understand the various problems of the disadvantaged and handicapped, and (2) provide training and self-exploratory experiences. Institute…

This document includes six papers presented at the conference. Raymond T. Affleck, in a concluding address, enlarges the general theme of the conference to "Learning Environments - Why, What, How?". James A. Gibson, in "Every Man His Own Architect," says that school planners should possess the characteristics of an architect who looks around him…

The purpose of this study was to design, produce, and evaluate testing reports that would be useful and meaningful at the classroom level: reports that would be useful to teachers and informative to parents, without making time demands on teachers in either preparation of the reports or in inservice training in educational measurement. The Iowa…

This bulletin on educational reform published in the Argentine province of Santa Fe contains the committee reports written for the National Commission for Analysis and Evaluation of the Educational System in conjunction with the National Education Program established during the May 1970 meeting of Ministers of Education. The reports consider…