This booklet discusses three Federal programs for the continuing education of adults: Adult Basic Education; Community Service and Continuing Education; and Civil Defense Education. Initiated through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Adult Basic Education began operation in 1965, financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity and administered…

This 24-page booklet is the third component in a set of instructional materials related to the purposes, organization, and uses of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center). The booklet is designed to instruct the reader in ways of using the comprehensive ERIC indexing system in the search for information or materials relevant to his needs.…

This report is the result of a research effort that tried to find out what determines how much a student learns during his 4 years in college. The major purpose was to find partial answers to two basic questions. (1) If the input with respect to student ability is held constant, will identifiable groups of colleges have graduates showing greater…

New print and nonprint resources for secondary level classroom use are available in the field of speech communication, which has become process oriented with continual interaction between speaker and listener. Of five specific books, three provide valuable resource material for teachers, focusing on practical teaching suggestions and the necessity…

The State Education Department of New York has prepared a series of modules--Expanded Programs in Consumer Education. "Travel and the Consumer" is the most recently produced module. It can be used as a discrete unit or with others in the series. The module stresses the importance of making travel creative, getting the most for one's…

This booklet contains an annotated listing of instructional materials for use in bilingual-bicultural programs. Each entry includes the following information: title, author or developing agency, name and address of the publisher, publication date, number of pages, language(s) used, intended audience or level, and a descriptive statement. Any…

The report describes Wisconsin's information retrieval system with remote, on-line computer access to nearly 200,000 educational documents. Briefly outlined are the operations and indexing of materials for the computer program, documents of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), file access, training sessions, and remote location…

This bulletin presents data taken from the report, "Federal Funds for Research, Development, and Other Scientific Activities," Volume 23. Data given for 1974 and 1975 are estimated and do not represent final obligations. The survey on which the report is based was conducted at the midpoint of fiscal year 1974 when the President's budget for fiscal…

Organizational communication, because of its interdisciplinary nature and diversity of interest (sociology, psychology, speech communication, and business administration), requries reading in several different disciplines. Among the available resources listed in this document are six specific books which may prove useful for understanding the…

In this paper concerning the function of regional service centers serving both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan schools, no effort was made to justify service centers, to compare and describe services in the different states, or to review the literature relating to service centers or intermediate units. Instead, this document presents some…

The need for expanded less-than-baccalaureate opportunities for the citizens of Maine has been identified. This paper presents two methods to respond to this need. The first model presented, SMRCC (Southern Maine Regional Community Learning Centers), is designed to provide geographic access for the students of two southern Maine counties, York and…

The "Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian, Second Edition, Volume I", includes listings of related museums, libraries, government agencies, urban Indian centers, visual and instructional aid sources, authentic arts and crafts, reservations and tribal councils, monuments and state parks, government publications and newspapers, magazines…

This sixth issue of ERIC Products lists 396 publications of information analysis for Fiscal Year 1973 (July 1972 through June 1973). The publication includes substantial bibliographies, review papers, and state-of-art papers which are identified as ERIC information analysis publications; it excludes routine brochures, accession lists and short…

As an interdisciplinary educational program, consumer education is an ongoing process and must not be limited to one grade level nor to one or two disciplines. When implementing a consumer education program, consideration of necessary administrative adjustments and a delineation of the steps to be followed in curriculum development should be made.…

Phase II, Volume IV of the Project NECESSITIES reports contains the first unit of a series on practical economics for Indian students. The unit, Allocation of Resources, was field-tested in the fall of 1969-70 with 10th, 11th, and 12th graders in the Eagle Butte High School, Eagle Butte, South Dakota. The 16-activity version provided in the…