The conference reported on in this document addressed two specific questions: Since 1968, when the Kerner Report made recommendations to the media about the employment of minorities and about the news coverage of minorities, how far have the news media organizations come in bridging the communications gap between the media and minorities? In what…

Translating legal and bureaucratic language into plain, comprehensible English is not amenable to simple rules and procedures. Rewriting comprehensibly requires specialized knowledge about language and an awareness of a number of misconceptions and pitfalls. This paper discusses what not to do in rewriting, based upon rewritten documents presently…

The report summarizes the concerns that emerged during the nine regional conferences of the Consortium on the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142). Part I provides an overview with brief coverage of the historical background of legislation for the handicapped, the legislative background specific to P.L. 94-142, and the…

This is the annual report (1966-67) of the Parenting Materials Information Center (PMIC), a project of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory designed to collect parenting materials, generate useful information about them, and store that information in a replicable, self-contained information system that would make the information…

This 1971-77 annotated bibliography published by the Committee for General and Technical Education, Council of Europe consists of: (1) reports on the Council of Europe symposiums on preschool education, and (2) summaries of papers related to the symposiums. Topics covered are: the links between preschool and primary education, teacher education,…

In December, 1977, a conference was held to bring an awareness of various problems in school desegregation to teacher, community and school district leaders in the Los Angeles area. At the conference, a business community network formed and implemented by the Council for Peace and Equality was described. School integration in Pasadena, San…

Reviews and evaluative comments concerning the 11 papers read during the April 1976 portion of the Pittsburgh conference on the theory and practice of beginning reading are included in this document. Before the papers are reviewed, information is presented on some questions posed at the conference within the context of two issues that were raised…

The second Pittsburgh conference on the theory and practice of beginning reading, held in May 1976, is evalauted in this paper by pointing out some of the "critical incidents" that occurred at the conference and that indicated the types of interactions that must take place between reading theory and practice in the future. The paper…

A framework for a comprehensive theory of reading is presented in this paper. The framework consists of perceptual, semantic, and control systems. The perceptual and semantic spaces of the theory should not be confused with the terms "decoding" and "comprehension"; decoding and comprehension refer to ways in which those spaces…

The two reading programs discussed in this paper, "Reading Unlimited" (RU) published by Scott Foresman and "New Primary Grades Reading Systems" (RS) by the University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center, provide maximal contrasts in materials and teaching strategies. The instructional strategies in RU are…

In this paper, it is suggested that reading instruction can be improved by studying the interactions of students and teachers in beginning reading classes. Such research could identify effective environments for learning to read, providing teachers with alternative and effective ways of adapting reading instruction to the students' needs. The…

Collected in this document are papers presented at a conference on designing a mathematics methods course for secondary school teachers. Papers are organized under the following categories: (1) Realistic goals for a methods course, (2) Minimal content for a methods course, and (3) Teaching strategies used in methods courses. The seven short papers…

Conference addresses and summaries of group discussion are included in these proceedings of a symposium held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Employment Service and to explore its future role. The first item is a research report, "The Potential Impact of the Employment Service on the Economy," by Charles Holt, followed by…

A brief overview of the societal context for current grading practices forms the background for a discussion of alternatives to the assignment of letter or numerical grades to represent student performance. According to the author, in order to meet the criteria for effective feedback, schools and colleges must undergo several fundamental attitude…

The Guidelines for Educational Program Auditors in Utah were prepared to help educational program auditors (EPAs) deliver high quality services with a minimum of effort; they were intended to serve as a text for EPA training sessions, as a handbook and policy guide for EPAs and their assistants, and as a standard for judging the quality of EPA…