This curriculum guide offers materials designed to acquaint students with aspects of Hispanic culture and language. Situations, pattern practices, visual aids, dialogues, games, literary passages, and authentic media advertisements, all closely revolving around the concept of "El Dinero" (Money), are employed to this end. Suggestions for…

Initiated in 1969 at the request of the University of California President's Advisory Committee on Learning Resources, this study identifies the essential criteria for planning university learning resources centers in the 1970's. General definitions of learning resources for conventional and innovative instruction are given together with a brief…

The scope, history, and effects of technological innovation in higher education in Japan, with particular attention to Tokyo Institute of Technology, are explored, and the developments leading to the present state of the technology are reviewed. An overview of the current status includes a listing of institutions with audiovisual equipment, a…

Two related questions are investigated in this research: (1) the characteristics which differentiate those schools which extensively use educational innovations from those which do not; and (2) the factors that determine whether innovation will be a carefully thought-out and discriminating process, rather than a process primarily influenced by…

Five pilot studies were conducted at four two-year colleges in the Washington, D.C. area during the 1970-71 academic year to identify relevant variables for subsequent in-depth examination in this USOE-funded research project which is designed to determine student acceptance and learning effectiveness of microform. Known as Phase II, the year's…

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the largest Federal aid-to-education program, was passed in 1965 to provide financial assistance to local school districts in planning and operating special programs for educationally deprived children. It is a supplementary program, designed to upgrade the educational opportunities of…

Compiled for school administrators, teachers, researchers, information specialists, professional organizations, students, and others interested in locating and using educational resources on outdoor education, this bibliography is a supplement to four previous publications by the Educational Resources Information Center/Clearinghouse on Rural…

The guide provides planned career education information outlining the scope and sequence of activities in order to assist teachers in giving students many "hands-on" experiences. Presenting the primary and intermediate career education curriculum material in a single volume facilitates program articulation. For both the primary and intermediate…

This book presents a sequence of learning activities that have been used with success in the foreign language classrooms of Kenston High School, near Cleveland, Ohio. The activities, based on group dynamics principles, are designed to facilitate relevant oral communication in the target language and, through this communication, to help the…

This book presents a sequence of learning activities that have been used with success in the foreign language classrooms of Kenston High School near Cleveland, Ohio. The activities, based on group dynamics principles, are designed to facilitate relevant oral communication in the target language and, through this communication, to help the students…

This curriculum guide is designed for use by paraprofessionals (or home tutors) with preschool Mexican-American children in a home setting. This set consists of three volumes covering one year's instruction, with each volume covering ten weeks. Specific lesson plans in Spanish and English are provided for each day. The program's aims are to:…

"Contemporary Education" is a magazine, published six times a year, which seeks to present competent discussions of contemporary trends and problems in education. This issue concentrates on the computer's role in education, with the conviction that the computer will transform education and eventually inform and pervade all areas of human activity,…

This curriculum guide for teaching music in Vermont schools represents the combined efforts of the state department of education and music teachers throughout the state. The guide includes sections on the elementary school music curriculum, the secondary music curriculum, instrumental programs, instructional resources available to teachers, and an…

This annual report evaluates the programs run by the Vermont State Department of Education for educationally disadvantaged children. The report comprises a general introduction highlighting the operations of these programs: a descriptive summary including such items as basic statistics, staff visits, changes in State Agency procedures, effect upon…

An estimated one million students drop out of school each year; this is but one indicator of the failure of schools to provide equal educational opportunity for all children. One main reason is the failure to take into account the diverse backgrounds of the students. In particular, schools have been structured in a manner that discriminates…