A nine-state taxonomy was developed embracing the panorama of stated and implied reasons characteristically given for the improvement of international understanding. Clustered into three categories -- the National, Personal, and International-Interhuman Orientation Categories -- the taxonomy is outlined and the more fully described. (Author/ND)

Addresses some of the problems concerning the hierarchical relationship between language typology and genetic linguistics and between typology and universal grammar. (RM)

Research supported in part by OEO Headstart Subcontract No. 1410 with Michigan State University Headstart Evaluation and Research Center.

Speech given at the Occupational Analysts Institute, Michigan State University, July 18, 1967. Also a staff paper at W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Washington, D.C.

The document reports several policy options that address the issue of educating autistic children in rural and sparsely populated areas. A description of autistic children relates numerous problems, confusions, and disagreements about the nature and course of the handicap including lack of agreement about definition and treatment. The most…

Functional measures of reading, spelling, and writing were administered weekly over a 5 week period to 71 fifth grade students. Although 34 of these students had been identified as learning disabled (LD) by their schools and 37 were low achievers who had not been identified as LD, no meaningful differences had been found between their performances…

This paper reviews objectives, methodology, and data analysis procedures of a study concerning educational innovation. This research, part of the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations (PAEI) Program at the University of Texas at Austin, was undertaken to study interventions and their effects. It was considered a first step in determining…

The Structured Planning and Debugging Editor (SPADE) is a new kind of interactive programming environment in which computer programs are generated by explicitly articulating planning decisions. The design of SPADE is based upon the development of a grammar of plans from a taxonomy of basic planning techniques. The utility of this approach to…

An outline of biological systematics and the kind of data that comprise it is presented, together with a description of one data convention used in systematics and a method for computerizing synonymic and associated data. Systematics consist of descriptions of species, names applied to these species, and supportive field data such as geographic…

A typology of time-related concepts is put forth as a step toward the building of comprehensive theory in aging. The concepts derive from statistics (age, cohort, period effects), the theoretical writings of Sorokin (life course role sequences, durations and rates), the writings of Riley (on the synchronization of life course socialization and…

The broad patterns exhibited by history museums and their collections--the politico-geographical base, the size and collections, unsystematic acquisition, wide range of object types, and lack of categorization, and the lack of scholarly discipline to help development--differ from those of art and science museums, making their electronic data…