See TE 499 864, above.

This report of the National Conference on Trade and Industrial Education includes nine committee reports on the topics which are of greatest importance to state supervisors, teacher educators and others. The topics are: (1) improved teacher education programs to meet the growth needs, (2) a program of research to meet the needs in an expanding…

In January 1970, the Department of Labor restructured its Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) out-of-school program and made age limits for entering the program more restrictive. Education, skill training, and work experience were emphasized. The restructured NYC-2 program was carried out in urban or growth areas, but the original NYC-1 program was…

This task force report delineates problems, objectives, and recommendations associated with a comprehensive plan to educate hearing imparied students in Florida. It notes appointment of task force members by the Commissioner of Education to comply with the legislative mandate requiring all handicapped children to be provided with special education…

The educational development programs of Latin American nations have frequently floundered because of an inability to plan, organize, and execute decisions effectively and to deliver resources with precision and dispatch. This study documents and analyzes Colombia's effort to resolve this problem in its educational institution through the process…

The establishment of resource centers has been a response to teachers' need for information on the many new curricula and materials which are today part of education. Through visitation and discussion, the activities of 78 resource centers in British colleges of education were reviewed. The resulting analysis of aims, costs, and operations is…

The purpose of this study, completed with personnel who work in local disaster services, was to obtain data to test Etzioni's model of consensus and effectiveness. The data indicate that both early socialization and communication with elites are associated with consensus formation. Consensus formation and communication have direct and significant…

The problem of information and documentation in educational research and development is discussed in this European study. The relationship between the problem of information and documentation and the design of research and development is described. The narrative also includes: (1) the constituent parts of the problem of information and…

This book focuses on the process of implementing an alternative school within a public urban system. To identify and illustrate the problems inherent in organizing and operating an alternative school the West Philadelphia Community Free School was taken as a case study. Observations and analysis are here offered on two different levels: (1)…

This report is divided into five major components. Part 1 contains a brief description of middle schools as they have developed throughout the U.S. since the beginning of this century. Part 2 reviews the history of middle schools as they have evolved in the Seattle School District. Emphasis is placed on the role that the district's mandatory and…

During its first year 1972-73, the project was concerned with total implementation of an innovative plan for scheduling high school classes--the Trimester/Modular Scheduling Plan and inservice education for teachers to help them update their teaching strategies and adapt them to the classtime allotments of the new scheduling plan. Four of the…

There has been a general decline in college unions in the past few years. The author suggests some external and internal factors that have a significant bearing on the general state of unions: substantial reforms in teaching, changes in college counseling centers, transformations in residence halls, and development of student subcultures…

John B. Carroll's Model of School Learning is a paradigm which describes the degree of learning that takes place in school setting as a function of the time spent on a learning task divided by the time needed for its mastery. The components of opportunity and perseverance in Carroll's model have particular relevance to a form of school…

The feasibility study forms part of a project initiated in 1969 which also includes the UNESCO Thesaurus of science and technology policies, a provisional world list of periodicals dealing with science and technology policies and some 3,000 abstracts of literature on the subject. The purpose of the feasibility study is to define the managerial,…

American Indian children attend public, Federal, private, and mission schools. In fiscal year 1973 there were 187,613 Indians (aged 5 to 18 years) enrolled in these schools in the U.S. Of these 68.5 percent attended public schools; 25.6 percent attended Federal schools; and 5.9 percent attended mission and other schools. The Bureau of Indian…