Summarizing Canada's Regional Continuing Education Programs for the 1972-74 fiscal years, this document indicates support for solid education programs for the development of Indians in their communities. Brief summations are presented for the following regions: Maritime Region (1972-73 was a peak year for on-the-job training placements with…

Issues involved in making school desegregation work are discussed in this conference report. A review of legal landmarks and a discussion of the precedents and standards of which the implementation of school desegregation depends are given. To provide background in the history of desegregation, an overview of critical integration court battles is…

Leaders of state student associations from 22 states met in July, 1977 in Columbia, Missouri at the first national conference of state student associations. This document represents the consensus of the conference. It is a call to action for Congress, the President, state legislatures, governing boards of colleges and universities, and state…

The conference proceedings relating to employment status and employment-related problems of women in general, and Montgomery County, Maryland, specifically, are highlighted in this report. The purpose of the conference was to establish a solid base for an on-going dialogue with educators, personnel experts, and affirmative action officers in the…

In this project conducted from November 1974 until April 1978, each of 5 site communities was assisted in the development of a coordinated planning process which emphasized prevention of juvenile delinquency, interagency cooperation, and identification of needs and problems based on research data. Throughout its operation, the project stressed the…

Supporting performance objective 5 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on preparing accident reports in an office are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of three on performing clerical activities--CE 016 948-950.)…

Children are ready to write before they are ready to read; thus reading instruction should be an outgrowth of abilities children develop through inventing their own words. This gives children practice with the more concrete activities of word composition before they undertake the relatively abstract task of reading. Writing exercises may be given…

Two beginning reading curricula that use computer assisted instruction were developed during 12 years of work at Stanford University. This paper describes those curricula and the motivations, assumptions, procedures, and problems that were involved in their construction. Twelve observations about curricular design and development are summarized to…

This study prepared by a special task force of the National Association of Secondary School Principals is a report on articulation between secondary and post-secondary education. Included are presentations given by distinguished educators representing secondary schools, college and universities, vocational technical schools, proprietary…

The City-Wide Educational Coalition was founded to serve the needs of parents working to effect major change in the Boston school system. An account of the program activities of the Coalition during the 1976-77 school year is presented in this document. The responsibilities and work of various projects are described. Staff members of the projects…

Efforts to coordinate state-level Right to Read activities are reported in this document by listing objectives and indicating what activities were undertaken in support of those objectives. The activities included four regional meetings of state Right to Read project directors during which the following four problem areas were discussed: training…

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is a national, nonprofit organization designed to motivate children to read by making a wide variety of inexpensive books available to them and allowing the children to choose and keep books that interest them. This annual report for 1977 contains the following information on the RIF project: an account of the…

The impact of professional jargon and data-based statements in evaluation reports on audience responses to an evaluation report and an evaluator's recommendations was examined. Subjects read one of four evaluation reports about testing and grading procedures in a school program. The reports varied in the amount of jargon and data used to justify…

Summaries are presented in this book of dissertations, master theses, and master reports relating directly or indirectly to vocational education which were conducted by faculty and graduate students in the universities and colleges of Kansas between 1969 and 1975. The objectives in presenting these summaries are noted: (1) to encourage new…

Papers of the Tenth Annual College Self-Study Institute, held in 1968, are presented. They include: "Colleges and Universities as Agents of Social Change: An Introduction," by T.R. McConnell; "Agent of Whom?" by Harris L. Wofford, Jr.; "The University as an Instrument of Social Action," by Roger W. Heyns; "The…