Activities conducted by the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Needs (BSN) Division of Occupational Education designed to strengthen communication between BSN central staff and regional staff, and to explain more fully to the regional staff the goals and priorities for service to the disadvantaged and handicapped, are described in this handbook.…

This paper advocates that assessments of children's educability should utilize strategies based on a paradigm of plasticity of intellect within a wide range of hereditary limits rather than on a straightforward heritability paradigm. The relationship between science and values is discussed and the role of each in the creation of Project Head Start…

This final report summarizes a nationwide effort to determine appropriate health and behavioral sciences curricula components for graduate programs in health administration. Chapters 1 through 3 summarize the background, methodology, and findings of the project. Chapter 4 presents an analysis of health sciences and behavioral/social science…

In recognition of the need for a coordinated faculty and staff development program within the South Carolina Technical Education System, a task force was appointed to recommend a program covering the various areas of in-service faculty and staff development. This manual, based on the task force's recommendations, contains theoretical guidelines…

Methods are presented for organizing and implementing consumer education for grades K-12. The handbook is based on the premise that consumer education should be integrated in the total curriculum. Consumer education is defined as the preparation of individuals in the skills, concepts, and understandings required for maximum use of and satisfaction…

A cooperative statewide effort to evaluate individual Arts-in-Education projects and their cumulative impact upon Pennsylvania education is described. Eight Title IV Arts-in-Education projects in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are participating in the three year project. A coordinating center maintains communication, organizes data, and ensures…

Two types of questions may be asked in educational inquiry: educological ones--those seeking descriptions of educational events, and programmatic ones--those seeking prescriptions for educational interventions. Quantitative educology is described as consisting of three branches: the philosophy, science, and praxiology of education. The SIGGS…

The authors have adopted the stance that the position of the secondary school department head in Ontario is unique. This booklet is intended to contain some theory, but has been devised to be relevant to the everyday needs of the department head. It is hoped that the problems are stated in realistic terms and that the solutions to these problems…

In any given context, a Russian verb form may be either perfective or imperfective. Perfective aspect signals the completion or result of an action, whereas imperfective does not. Aspect choice is a function of context, and two types of context are distinguished: deterministic and non-deterministic. This paper is part of a larger study whose aim…

The purpose of this document is to describe an elementary teacher preparation program at Oregon College of Education as an example of an ongoing, reasonably mature, competency-based teacher education program. Six major aspects of the program are discussed in detail. First, the background of the program is described, giving the history of the…

Produced for use by educators and administrators in Scotland involved in planning and developing learning resources centers in elementary and secondary schools, this guide contains: (1) examples and discussion of the allocation of space for resources centers in schools with different architectural layouts, (2) three case studies of schools which…

The document presents organizational details of the 18-month Country School Legacy Project (June 1980-December 1981) to begin an on-going inquiry into the history of rural education and current public policies which affect country schools and which will result in greater public use of library facilities and historical collections in public,…

Cross-cultural studies on sex differences, sex roles, and genderisms and related research in the social and psychological areas indicate that women are portrayed in stereotyped traditional roles. A 1978 study by Archer, Kimes, and Barrios concluded that there is inequality in the way women are situated and perceived in published photographs and…

The 31 articles presented in this book illustrate the success of initiating structure in English classrooms, at both the secondary and the college levels. Reflecting the notion that clear guidelines and explicit expectations--greater structure--will help both teacher and student work toward common educational goals, the articles are arranged in…

An established goal of the Michigan Department of Education is that annual and long-range educational planning will be improved and expanded. The purpose of this Program Review/Planning Handbook is to recommend procedures and instrumentation through which educators at the local level may plan and conduct a program review and prepare and implement…