In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), results are presented from a 1973 survey of media utilization in approximately 300 educational programs for the hearing impaired. (LS)

Nine components of Westchester County's Family Day Care System in White Plains, New York, are outlined in some detail. Westchester County, comprising 450 square miles of cities, suburbs, towns, and villages, borders on the Bronx, and, while very affluent, has the second largest number of homeless persons in the nation, and an ethnically and…

In response to both teachers' and students' needs, high school media specialists in Denver, Colorado, formed a resource sharing consortium called ASAP (As Soon As Possible), a multitype library telefacsimilie consortium, which is supported by 1988-1990 Library Services Construction Act (LSCA) funds. ASAP members include 14 high school library…

The author researched and adapted ways to promote responsibility for library books. The program's aims were to reduce and retrieve lost library books that were reported on the inventory check and to make students, parents, and teachers aware of the problems and the importance of being responsible library users. Introduction to the project was done…

Demographic and economic trends indicate that in the future there will be fewer teachers available to teach growing K-12 school enrollments. In addition to this, public education is also experiencing funding shortages. Distance education seems to provide a solution for both of these problems as it offers an equitable way to distribute educational…

Developed as a direct response to requests from librarians and principals for a scope and sequence guide for library/information skills for students in grades prekindergarten through 12, this document is designed to help librarians and teachers not only to present and document mastery of the mandated essential library/information skills, but also…

This resource notebook contains lesson plans for use in providing career education to students in grades 6, 7, and 8. Lessons plans are organized into sections addressing the following subject areas: language arts and foreign language, reading, mathematics, science, social studies, health and physical education, special education, and fine arts…

The 13 articles on online searching in secondary schools that are annotated in this bibliography were published between 1981 and 1985 and cited in Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). The documents and articles cover a variety of issues and perspectives including: an introduction to online bibliographic…

Libraries will play a key role in establishing a learning society and in halting the decline in education described in "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform," the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The block grant program has already aided the advancement of library and education programs,…

Changes in family life styles, particularly the increase in single-parent families, can affect children's behavior in school. Apparently, teenagers are able to cope more successfully with the conflict of loyalties and demands of their parents' divorce than are younger children. Educators designing support systems to provide families with…

Fifteen of Texas's 49 public community/junior college districts maintain rural extension centers in small- to medium-sized cities located from 19 to 108 miles from campus. Operating out of borrowed or leased facilities, with no local income or tax base, these centers provide a regular schedule of credit classes to rural Texas residents. In…

Intended for project directors, consultants, Colorado Department of Education personnel, and other interested persons, this report examines the overall usefulness of the Colorado Migrant Education Resource Center's (CoMERC's) efforts in putting on an institute for summer migrant school instructional staff. The first section describes the planning,…

The report presents the major feedback and cost factors of the 1982 Summer Institute held by the Colorado Migrant Education Resource Center (CoMERC) for summer migrant school instructional staff. The first section describes the pre-registration process and depicts the make-up of the 198 participants. The next section presents comments on…

This study is an evaluation of the functions and activities of two educational resource centers in Ghana. Issues examined and evaluated are: (1) accessibility and availability of the centers' facilities and services; (2) adequacy of the centers' materials and facilities to meet teachers' various needs; (3) relevance of the centers' activities to…

The activities of the Adult Continuing Education Center at Montclair State College, N.J. since 1966, are outlined. (SA)