The Oshkosh (Wisconsin) career education project (K-12) was conducted to provide students with an increased number of career education learning experiences which capitalize on and exploit career implications of various subject areas and which capitalize on available community, business, labor, and industry resources. The major activities of the…

Twenty-one elementary and secondary school media centers in New Jersey are listed and special aspects of their media programs are described. Each school is identified by name, address, size, number of staff, and size of collection. In part 2 is an additional listing of New Jersey schools that have innovative provisions and practices in their…

An annotated bibliography of reference books for school libraries from kindergarten through ninth grade is presented. Following brief sample lists of basic reference collections for primary, intermediate, and junior high school libraries are annotated bibliographies of encyclopedias, dictionaires, factbooks and yearbooks, indexes, atlases,…

Media programs were compared in 21 Utah high schools having student populations between 700 and 1,500. Differences in responses to a questionnaire administered by the Utah State Division of Instructional Media (USDIM) on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the school media program were identified, and the levels of responses were compared…

The Bureau of School Libraries of the New York State Education Department presents a planning guide for participation in Title IV-B of the 1974 Elementary and Secondary Education Act which provides grants for school library materials, other instructional materials, equipment and minor remodeling for its use, and testing and guidance services. The…

Improvements in the technology associated with the information sciences will have their primary potential impact on the distribution of costs, information flow level, information availability, and use among information channels. This improvement implied not only a capability to perform a given function, but a lower cost. For example, the trend…

The basic purpose of this study was to find ways and means to improve the educational system of the Seventh Day Adventist church and to render practical information to other church groups and public institutions. Utilizing data collected via mail or personal contact with service centers, the media phases of cooperative and/or regional programs…

Computer assisted instruction (CAI) may well represent the next phase in the involvement of the library or learning resources center with media and the educational process. The Lister Hill Center Experimental CAI Network was established in July, 1972, on the recommendation of the National Library of Medicine, to test the feasibility of sharing CAI…

A 2- or 3-paragraph description of each of the 15 operational projects, 6 planning grants, and 1 minigrant is found in this document on West Virginia's past and present projects (through June 30, 1970) funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Each description includes information such as the target student population,…

Activities in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 1969-70 concentrated on the USOE site team visit and on implementation of the team's planning recommendations. In a background paper and a preliminary program plan submitted to USOE, the importance of continuing emphasis on developmental psychology was stressed. The center learned in December…

A special education service center was proposed, to be located at a children's clinic and to provide mobile on site services to school districts in an eight county area. Regional services were to include the following: diagnosis and evaluation of children with poor academic skills; perceptual development treatment and physical, occupational, and…

Although 26% of the Philippine national budget is spent on education, serious problems still exist. To update and revitalize the curriculum, to bring efficient teaching to isolated classrooms, and to make available modern audiovisual aids the Center for Educational Television on the campus of Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City broadcasts…

Included are papers, some in abridged or abstract form, on the following areas: 15 on the gifted; seven each on mental retardation and on information services; five each on the disadvantaged, teacher education, and general concerns; four on behavioral disorders; three each on visual impairment, learning disabilities, the homebound and…

The plan provides guidelines to Colorado citizens for the implementation of four environmental education programs. The major emphasis of the plan is to stimulate and strengthen environmental education throughout Colorado by increasing communication, cooperation, and coordination among individuals and organizations. The following citizen-based…

The final report of the 2 year project (1971-1972) in Harrison School District 1, Arkansas, funded through Title III, to integrate art and music programs in elementary schools and special classes, and to establish two resource rooms for developing academic and art/music oriented instructional materials for learning disabled (LD), educationally…