This document reports on a conference, concerning rural blacks in four Southern states, that has as its theme the definition of the problem and research priorities relating to the development of a sense of community. A section on formal presentations includes topics such as democracy, economic progress, and research in the southern region, the…

During the 1974-75 school year, the Owensboro-Daviess County middle and high schools engaged in developing an exemplary program in human relationships and occupational competencies. The purpose of the program was to provide classroom instruction and exploration-placement activities that would enable the student to gain knowledge about himself in…

The five-part document reviews the literature of job placement and the relationship between youth and employment--the barriers, services, and specific needs. The first part discusses in particular the importance of the work role, the preparation of youth for employment, and the methods used to secure work as these affect youth's entry into the…

The publication is a collection of articles by graduate students dealing primarily with the issues and concerns of vocational and technical education. The articles and their authors are: A New Wrinkle in Cooperative Education, Donald E. Evans; Characteristics of Mid-Career Changers, Howard Markle; CBE: Panacea or Business as Usual?, Gerald Funk;…

This book organizes and synthesizes basic factual information concerning the changing status of blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and American Indians. It specifically provides the highlights of data on income, employment, and education of minorities and sketches the broad patterns as revealed through federally published statistics and…

Dedicated to aiding teachers and curriculum developers in making social studies curricula responsive to maintaining the dignity and worth of students, this resource book is the product of the National Council for the Social Studies' Sexism and Social Justice Committee. The book is for social studies teachers who want to avoid sexism in their…

The textbook is addressed to students beginning their second year in a Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Program. Part One (111 pages) discusses psychology, group dynamics, human relations skills, communication skills, military instruction, and problem solving as they apply to a leader. Also discussed are leadership principles,…

The Rural Education Program (REP) of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) is developing a strategy for involving rural communities and school systems in a systematic problem solving process. This Rural Futures Development (RFD) Strategy is based on the theoretical works of such people as Havelock, Lippit, Bales, Williamson,…

This booklet, containing monographs on aspects of multiethnic curriculum in the schools, is intended to aid teachers to keep in touch with some of the strategies and criteria in planning and executing multiethnic programs. An article on new curricula for multiethnic schools notes that most of the urban and suburban schools are racially and…

This booklet presents teacher-developed units of study on the American government for eleventh-grade students. The materials are Part III of a set of classroom strategies intended to help secondary students examine American history in light of the issues identified by the American Issues Forum. Students make posters, interview local government…

A landmark document, the out-of-print volume prepared for the first session of the UNESCO general conference, provides a preliminary outline of the proposed plan for fundamental education. Fundamental education is used to indicate a global field of activity that includes and goes beyond mass education, adult literacy, popular education, and…

This study on malnutrition as a limiting factor in the development of education (and, hence, in socioeconomic development generally) was presented to the UNESCO Seminar on Education, Nutrition, Agriculture and Man. The paper reports on recent research showing that the development of the central nervous system in very young children (including the…

Papers from a conference series initiated in the Aberdeen College of Education in 1968 and recently held in Golspie, Scotland (July 1974), address policy oriented recommendations relative to rural education. This conference report is intended to serve as a useful source of ideas; as background information on international rural educational…

Traditionally, postsecondary education is based on a selective model in which students are uniformly expected to benefit from the methods of instructors and their concepts of appropriate curriculum and educational goals. Under this system, 30 to 70 percent of all community college students become part of an attrition statistic. In order to adapt…

Sociological changes in secondary school education are surveyed, with an emphasis on the attitudes of high school librarians as professionals. Cynicism among high school adolescents, the importance of peer identity, and the responsibilities of the high school library are also investigated. Several realistic goals are suggested to encourage…