One of a series dealing with reading, mathematics, language arts, social studies, science, cultural arts, health, and physical education, this report on reading is designed to help North Carolina teachers in planning instructional programs for public school students and to inform the general public of students' educational needs and attainments.…

This document gives the complete salary schedules and the placement of teachers on the schedule for each California school district that responded to the Annual Survey of Certified Salaries, Salary Schedules, and Salaries Paid Teachers for 1974-1975. Approximately 97 percent of classroom teachers in California are covered by the schedules…

This document gives information about salary schedules for certain central office administrative personnel and for other classes of administrative personnel assigned primarily to individual schools. The survey collected administrative salary data for bench mark classes only. A bench mark class is one that has assigned as collection of duties and…

The California Council on the Education of Teachers (CCET) is developing goals for a five-year plan of action. To facilitate planning, a survey was conducted to obtain ideas of CCET delegates from California's accredited institutions of higher education, public agencies, and professional organizations. The survey first asked individuals to list…

This report focuses on results from teacher and principal questionnaires administered in each of the schools included in the 1974 third-grade state assessment program. According to the introduction, the program began a three-year cycle of assessment in grades 3, 6, and 9 and was designed to collect a broad base of information on educational needs…

The extent to which secondary teachers in five midwestern states were cognizant of and were using curricular materials developed by 10 nationally recognized social studies curriculum projects is examined. The 10 curriculum projects include Amherst's Units in American History, Anthropology Curriculum Study Project, Berkeley's Asian Studies Inquiry…

This study explores the possibility of the existence of female sex stereotypes in the common career fiction available in junior high school libraries in New Jersey. The process of determining the existence of a stereotype in the characterization of employed people in these books involved two steps. A method was developed for analyzing the speech…

The study sought to present information on student enrollment in North Carolina for the years 1960 and 1968 in all types of postsecondary education designed to prepare persons for employment. The study included enrollment information for apprenticeship programs and public, private, and proprietary institutions providing postsecondary education.…

A survey, designed to assess the impact of career education on the communication disciplines, was conducted in 474 junior and senior colleges and universities in thirteen states. The survey questionnaire contained 66 questions probing the various aspects of career education, from attitudinal perceptions to practices, including fields into which…

This research presents the science teaching practices for schools in the Plains, Rocky Mountain, and Southeast regions of the United States and the all-inclusive curricular events surrounding them, as they existed during the 1970-71 school year. Subproblems investigated were relationships between teacher characteristics and science teaching…

The purpose of this study was to determine how much emphasis is placed on minority literature in the American literature course in the secondary schools of South Carolina. A questionnaire dealing with various aspects of the American literature course was sent to the chairmen of English departments in 216 secondary schools, and the findings are…

Presented is the second year report of a project designed to assist state advisory councils in evaluating services to the developmentally disabled. Described are the five project objectives (including providing assistance to new and existing regional committees), methodologies and results (including definition of services and questions to be asked…

In order to discover whether there were any inner-city elementary schools in Massachusetts which were successful in teaching children to read, a two-year study was undertaken. Results of the study, reported in this document, showed that there is no one pattern for success but that there is a process by which schools, either alone or in…

The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to investigate the general image of women who are active in politics and compare that image with the general image of men who are politically active, (2) to examine the general area of sex-related voting patterns when a major woman condidate is involved, and (3) to determine whether or not a female…

A normative survey was conducted of all certificated, experienced public secondary school counselors in Missouri, to ascertain the problems, practices, and perceptions of Missouri counselors concerning the five vocational guidance functions specified in the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and its 1968 Amendments. The survey instrument was…