This guide was produced to provide K-12 teachers with basic materials on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, because U.S. textbooks frequently ignore this part of the world. These units about the Soviet Union include information on geography, education, lifestyles, government, the Communist Party, economics, and religion. Suggestions for…

Sources for studying the educational system of Spain and other European countries are provided in this bibliography of documents produced throughout Europe. Case studies and research reports on the problems of transition from school to work are included in section one. Data were gathered from Spain, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, the Federal Republic…

There is a growing body of credible evidence that successful efforts can be made to improve the quality of secondary education despite cutbacks in educational resources. Such efforts are demanded by the current conservative public attitude toward education, as exemplified by movements for tax and spending limitations and for the return to…

In this paper a former state school officer considers the concept of educational adequacy. He notes first that definitions of adequacy vary according to the population served, and that for any definition at least three levels of adequacy can be specified. He argues that education fails to achieve the lowest level of adequacy in many communities…

The efforts of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) to affiliate with independent scholars and artists are described. A protocol to guide the development of beneficial relationships between colleges and independents is also presented. The first step was to survey the population of independent scholars and artists within the GLCA area.…

This guide provides an introduction to the "UNESCO Sourcebook for Classroom Nutrition Teaching-Learning," which is designed for both actual classroom use and as teacher-training support material, with lesson plans, teaching methods, and learning activities. Nutrition information is presented in such a way that important concepts are not limited to…

An excellent teacher education program demands the careful integration of both campus-based and field-based instruction over a substantial amount of time. Teachers must be thoroughly prepared in general academic work and in pedagogy, and they should be exposed to the actualities of the classroom. An excellent teacher education program needs high…

This annotated list of resources for teachers is the product of several educators' efforts to promulgate the recent work being done in Britain in multicultural/multiethnic education, world studies, development studies and intercultural perspectives. An introduction cites appropriate texts for discussing race relations in the classroom. Section I,…

Constant clamoring for change has led curriculum into an era of structured obsolescence. Increasingly more curriculum products are discarded rather than revised or updated. (Author/WM)

This career education curriculum guide is intended for use by elementary teachers planning programs for students in grades three and four. The guide covers four basic content areas: (1) the individual and his environments, (2) world of work, (3) self, and (4) economics. These content areas are divided into several topics, and each topic includes…

A three-year model project in career education was undertaken to accomplish several goals, including the following: to provide a strong guidance and counseling program; to design programs to increase self-awareness, favorable attitudes, and career decision-making skills; and to provide career orientation and exploratory experiences for students.…

Among the ethnic groups dealt with by this comprehensive directory are Albanians, Armenians, blacks, Chinese, Danes, Filipinos, Germans, Greeks, Hungarians, Irish, Italians, Japanese, Jews, Koreans, Latvians, Lebanese, Lithuanians, Norwegians, Poles, Portuguese, Puerto Ricans, Russians, Scots, Serbs, Swiss, Turks, Ukranians, Vietnamese, and…

Intended for parents, the booklet provides a practical guide to the types of learning aids that are helpful to the visually impaired child from preschool to post-school age. Aids for the preschool age are broken down into the following areas: materials for touching, materials for listening, materials for developing language, materials for…

Some of the author's findings as a bilingual educator are summarized in this paper. One of the principal problems encountered in bilingual education is the inadequacy of classroom materials and texts. It was found, however, that though most teachers express dissatisfaction regarding materials, few of them see the potential impact of contacting…

The resource guide is designed to accompany a manual for students described in SO 009 851. The purpose of the manual is to provide the undergraduate with an overview of the data collected by the Bureau of the Census. To make the manual more effective, this resource guide supplements listings of Census Bureau materials, and indicates how census…