The primary goal of the Texas Telecommunication Satellite Demonstration consortium is to install, operate, and evaluate a comprehensive communication service delivery system which would provide the citizens of Texas with greater opportunity for equal access to education and information. The four major objectives of the demonstration are (1) to…

A summary of the results of a statewide education resource base survey conducted in the summer of 1977 provides school users with educational resource information originating in New Jersey. Educational improvement centers, county offices, colleges, universities, and other educational centers in the state yielded an 86 percent response rate to the…

Criteria and suggestions for the development and selection of instructional materials for culturally disadvantaged youth are discussed from the point of view of the textbook publisher. Materials should be educationally valid (any subject can be taught intellectually and honestly to a child), should teach fundamental concepts, and should suggest…

Following the development of inquiry oriented science curriculum materials, the Science for the Seventies project of the Pennsylvania Department of Education decided to employ the statewide educational television network to support its science education program. However, since contemporary science instruction requires that children actually…

Statutory and voluntary organizations that provide environmental information and educational services are listed alphabetically for England, Scotland, and Wales. Each entry includes the address and phone number of the organization, classification of organization by topics, and miscellaneous information such as age level of material, availability…

This publication lists 40 places in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area that could be visited on an environmental field trip. The sites are placed into five categories: (1) Air Monitoring; (2) Ecology and Nature Study; (3) Solid Waste Management; (4) Wastewater Treatment; and (5) Water Supply. Each entry includes name, address, and phone number…

To assist Canadian educational administrators and librarians on all levels, a project was organized to develop professional, flexible resource guides for the study of Canadian literature. This booklet, an introduction to the "Resource Guides for the Teaching of Canadian Literature," contains the rationale for the project, a brief overview of the…

The National Association of College and University Business Officers has taken major strides toward meeting the responsibility for establishing accounting and public reporting standards within the field of higher education. The need for improvement in the reporting procedures has been generally agreed on. It is imperative that revision of the…

Resulting from a project to systematically locate existing information resources useful in the development of training courses or programs, this catalog describes 31 of the most relevant information respurces. These resources include abstracting services, computer files, directories, exchange projects, books, and information services. The catalog…

Designed for use by teachers participating in the Right-to-Read volunteer tutor-training program and by those who wish to develop and conduct such a program, this handbook is intended to provide a starting point for teachers and trainers of teachers to aid them in developing their own tutoring programs. The handbook provides information on the…

The educational resources related to organizational communication listed in this document consist of the following: 12 texts and readers, 75 reference books, 17 publishers active in the field, 2 bibliographies, more than 300 articles, almost 200 journals, over 50 films (with annotations), 9 film distributors, and sources of simulations and games.…

The resources listed here are geared for the education specialist who receives, processes, and fulfills client requests for information needed to resolve specific curricular, instructional, or administrative problems. There are highly selective introductory sections on how to locate and organize information. Annotated bibliographies are provided…

In response to increasing demands for more information on environmental education materials, the National Education Association (NEA) has released a restructured, enlarged, and more comprehensive bibliography and directory as a tool for students and teachers for use in environmental education programs. Materials are classified in the following…

This document attempts to identify for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund how it may best invest its resources in postsecondary education to facilitate transformation to an equilibrium state. As the work of the project developed, it was found that the issue of "limits to growth and higher education" had two facets: (1) what role can the postsecondary…

The periodicals listed in this bibliography are those published in Latin America and the Caribbean that deal exclusively with educational themes. Information for each entry, when available, includes the title, subtitle, name and address of publisher, frequency of publication, year the publication began and/or terminated, any previous title, and…