The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating curriculum concepts in world history to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, teaching methods, and resource materials. Occupational information on approximately 130 different occupations includes job duties, education requirements, salary range, and…

The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating American history curriculum concepts to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, suggested teaching methods, and resource materials. The curriculum concepts covered in the guide coincide with those in the textbook presently used in teaching high school…

The filmography on American Indian education lists existing films in current distribution. The introduction explains the purpose of the guide, the procedure used to compile it, samples of questionnaires used, films as audiovisual classroom aids, the classification of films for classroom use, the relation of film use to individual curricula, some…

The human sexuality course guide was developed for a semester course at the high school level for both male and female students, grades 10-12. The guide was designed to assist home economics teachers and school administrators in planning the course and to assist teachers in teaching the course. The following concepts are considered: human…

The clothing and textiles guide for a second level semester course for grades 10-12 identifies objectives and learning experiences with basic reference to developmental tasks, needs, interests, capacities, and prior learning experiences of students. It was developed for use with students who exhibited skill and a high degree of satisfaction from…

Colleges with sizable teacher education programs must demonstrate the legitimacy and usefulness of all kinds of educational media and technology. Students and faculty in such colleges need readily available educational media selection centers, which may be considered expanded curriculum laboratories, to help them become familiar with the…

The growing interest in creating relevant learning experiences for students has resulted in an increased emphasis on using the entire community as a teaching resource. Community resources can be defined as those locally available materials, persons, organizations or experiences that are useful and valuable for educational purposes. Community…

The most pressing problem in adult education seems to be resource utilization; alternative solutions to problems exist but are not disseminated, and the most urgent requests are for the synthesizing of available knowledge to meet local program needs. A cooperative extension adoption of an innovation model, specifically the dissemination of Adult…

A total of 710 participants representing 371 agency members attended one of six 2-day workshops, which constituted the second phase of a 3-year curriculum development program and were designed to: (1) identify course objectives in relation to level objectives, (2) select subject matter and learning experiences appropriate to achievement of course…

Funds from Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 enabled the Mitchell (South Dakota) Junior High School to implement the Dial Access Retrieval System in January 1971. According to the report, the Dial Access Retrieval System is an educational tool which (1) utilizes electronic hardware, allowing a student/teacher to…

This study is an assessment of the current status of world history instruction in American secondary schools and an attempt to detect trends in the teaching of this subject. The report is divided into the following sections: 1) Introduction; 2) Historical Development of the World History Course; 3) Criticisms of the World History Course; 4)…

These hearings before the Committee on Education and Labor are on the Elementary Secondary Education Act, legislation to extend that act, and the relationship of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to other programs that would be authorized by pending legislation. In this respect, the committee is considering a number of bills, including…

In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Edward B. Fort, superintendent, Inkster Public Schools; Dr. Norman Drachler, former school superintendent, Detroit; Raymond Sreboth, superintendent, Benton Harbor Area Schools; Richard Ziehmer, superintendent, Covert Public Schools; Edward C. McKinney, superintendent, Baldwin…

Contents of these hearings include: "The socioeconomic indicators of Michigan--implications for education"; "Accountability in education"; "A position statement on educational accountability for improved instructional services at the elementary and secondary levels in Michigan"; "Select Detroit Title I and…

This study has four major objectives. They are: (1) to describe Detroit's population and school enrollment trends as they have occurred in the past and as they are likely to occur in the future; (2) to describe the extent of segregation of students by race in Detroit's public schools throughout the past decade; (3) to describe the extent of…