This course guide describes a one-semester, junior and senior, elective course in Afro-American literature, organized generally by genre and based on a required reading list of eight paperback books. An introduction points out the importance of including black literature in all 4 years of required English classes, rather than offering only a…

Confusion in the ranks of educators must be reduced. The problems of instructional arrangements, in-service training programs, militancy, instructional resources, and overspecialization may all be met through the collective action of teachers, supervisors, and principals. In order to solve the problems facing schools and school districts because…

The purpose of this Invitational Conference on Educating the Disadvantaged in Rural and Urban Settings, held under the sponsorship of the Division of Education at Geneseo, was to identify the common educational problems of the disadvantaged in both rural and urban settings in order to facilitate action on the educational, administrative, and…

This study brings together and develops further methods of analyzing financial outlay on educational institutions. The main theme is the methodology of calculating unit outlay, i.e., examining and relating costs to a unit in nonmonetary terms. Unit outlay calculations have a dual aim: (1) to assess unit outlays and demonstrate outlay differentials…

Federal Government assistance to colleges and universities is recommended in order to make up deficiencies in educational computing facilities and to support leadership and innovation at those institutions which presently have computer facilities. By 1971, an estimated annual outlay of $400 million will be necessary to give undergraduates adequate…

To assess the effect of inequalities in school resource inputs on student achievement, a model is proposed which uses hypothetical experiments to compare, on the one hand, the average achievement of student groups with their present school resources and, on the other hand, estimates of their average achievement after their school inputs are…

The concern of this book is with the underlying forces responsible for the very existence of schools and for what schools accomplish. The author offers a "theory of spontaneous schooling," in which mechanisms for academic growth are found when adults and children are in contact in almost any kind of administrative arrangement. Schooling is seen as…

Revolutionary innovation in the traditional school library has produced "the media center", where--in addition to books--films, television, tapes, and multimedia displays are available to increase student learning. This book represents a collection of eighty-three articles from library journals dealing with library science in its modern…

This report was designed mainly to develop information on the need and available resources for providing adult education programs for the hearing-impaired population of Illinois. Information was gathered through questionnaires mailed to persons identified through the records of the National Census of the Deaf, and follow-up interviews on a…

The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating curriculum concepts in American history to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, teaching methods, and resource materials. The three quarter course also presents occupational information on 61 different occupations including job duties, educational…

The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating curriculum concepts in earth science to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, suggested teaching methods, and resource materials. The course for eighth graders attempts to place the curriculum concepts in order of increasing difficulty. Occupational…

Intended to serve as a resource guide to assist trade, industrial, and technical teachers in maintaining an effective and efficient safety program, the document does not contain information concerning the many specific operations of the various trades. The materials serve as a background for teachers as they develop their own units of instruction…

The Advisory and Learning Exchange (ALE), located in Washington, D. C., is sometimes classified as a teaching center but also functions as an organization with a helping or facilitating role for individuals, groups, and schools. In pursuing the objectives of encouraging, organizing, connecting, and facilitating learning and growth experiences for…

The program planning guide was developed as a special project to help teachers in presenting a 1-year consumer and homemaking education curriculum at the seventh or eighth grade level. The units are presented under four headings: Personal Relationships, Personal Environment, Personal Development, and Personal Health. The units can be taught in any…

A survey of 28 military industrial, government, and academic learning centers was conducted. The purposes were to document the state of the art in the establishment and operation of these centers and to determine their potential usefulness in terms of being able to provide individualized, cost-effective instruction in Air Force training programs.…