A communication satellite was utilized as part of a 16 session career education course for secondary school teachers given at 15 sites throughout the Appalachian region. The conclusions reached were: (1) teachers preferred the sessions which presented examples of career education and were "how to do it" in format; (2) teachers preferred…

This report provides background information needed for a determination of the feasibility of establishing a program to train dental hygienists and dental assistants at Luzerne County Community College, and presents data needed to design such a program in a comprehensive community college. Information presented describes: the constituency and…

This report presents a review of current research on the education of British children under the age of 5 and suggests important questions for future research. The description of current research includes studies concerned with preschools, home environment and parent-child interaction, cognitive skills, severely subnormal children, and evaluation…

The book deals with postsecondary vocational education and the training of the middle-level worker and his occupational role in our society. It suggests that vocational schools and community colleges must combine in some kind of new institutional configuration and postulates an occupational core approach to vocational programs. The first part of…

Emphasizing recent recognition of the Nebraska Indian Commission's role as a State level voice capable of articulating Nebraska American Indian priority needs via appropriate legislation and/or proper agency communication, this third report by the Nebraska Indian Commission (January-June 1973) focuses on individual reports relative to the Omaha…

Emphasizing its permanency as a State Agency, this 1973-74 annual report by the Nebraska Indian Commission presents the following: (1) Commission Membership; (2) Nebraska Indian Commission Committees (local, county, state, Federal, foundation, church-funded programs; legislative; education; health and welfare; legal services); (3) A Comprehensive…

The most popular and traditional approaches to educational change have been through formal organizations. These organizations, by their very nature, are geared to treat typical cases and are efficient, but their effectiveness is questionable. Current models of change impose a certain rigidity on the situation which seems to defeat the professed…

Part 1 of the second volume in a four volume collection, this document includes sections on housing, health, crime, and energy and focuses on such topics as: federal policies for low income housing; the future supply of housing; nonaffluent behavior and attitudes related to health and well being; costs, coverage, and issues in medicaid; the…

American Indian education must be viewed in the context of: environments and their effect upon education (external environments, psychological environments, etc.); the trends and movements affecting Indian education (self-determination, local control, revenue sharing, economic development, etc.); agencies and other factors determining the…

The Law Offender's Planning Task Force of the Governor's Advisory Council on Manpower was established to develop a comprehensive manpower services plan for law offenders in Illinois. The report discusses what is needed in effective criminal justice manpower services and the problems peculiar to delivery of manpower services within the constraints…

Constituting the third annual report of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE), this document is divided into the following six sections: (1) The Lessons of Title IV of the Indian Education Act: Needs and Achievements (full funding for Title IV; the role of the American Indian Policy Review Commission; direct Federal funding;…

The first full year of the Wyoming Indian High School at Ethete is evaluated in this report which presents area recommendations calling for programs and/or adjustments as follows: (1) Goals and Objectives (needs assessment and community involvement in school philosophy); (2) Cultural Awareness (student enrollment; Native art and the Traditional…

The Wichita, Kansas Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I Project was begun during the 1965-66 school year as a diversified attack on the problems of disadvantaged pupils. Over the past 10 years, the project has evolved to one which concentrates funds on a small number of programs. Supportive services have been eliminated in favor of…

Constituting the third progress report on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' School Management Option, Management by Objectives Project, this document presents revisions designed to improve the overall quality, increase activity levels, improve the reporting process, and assure high priority for work of the objective. Specifically, this report…

The main themes of some prominent theories of youthful offenders are reviewed, and some of the far reaching reforms implied by these themes are outlined. The main goal is to consider how schools may respond to the problem, and attention is restricted to changes in schools that may help, even though more fundamental reforms in society would have…