Third in an annual series of State-sponsored inservice clinics for Arizona educators and administrators, the theme of the clinic attracted over 370 participants. Students and parents, as well as professional personnel, attended the two-day sessions. Program format included speeches, panel discussions, and the formation of task force groups to…

This guide addresses itself to individuals or groups wanting to help with Vietnamese resettlement. It is noted that there is a distinct advantage to group sponsorship because the costs of support are spread and it allows for extended maintenance while the language is learned and jobs are located. The first part of the guide outlines: (1) the steps…

The movement toward a uniform methodology of determining parental ability to pay to be used over time by all institutions and agencies awarding financial aid funds is consistent with the goals and objectives of the College Scholarship Service (CSS). This paper describes a proposed system for a uniform methodology for measuring parental ability to…

The program described and evaluated in this report is a nongraded (third and fourth grades) individualized learning situation in which students had available as educational stimuli the resources of three teachers and the combined materials of three classrooms. The program also contained provision for "blocks of time" during which various subjects…

The introduction of this report on educational policies in Quebec informs the reader about the present education system of Quebec and emphasizes that "democratization" is the most significant of the policies established in implementing reform from 1964 to 1974. Chapter 1 reviews the educational system as it existed in 1974, providing a…

The implementing regulation for Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments establishes detailed criteria for identifying and eliminating sex discrimination in education programs and activities. This document focuses briefly on answers to some of the questions that have arisen around the implementation. The purpose of Title IX is to prohibit sex…

Limited to a comparison of one open school and one traditional school, this study was performed to empirically assess the claims of open classroom proponents. Approximately 250 students in grades 1 through 6 of two elementary schools, one utilizing an open classroom instructional program and the other a traditional instructional program, comprised…

The special 1-year anniversary issue deals with problems and issues relating to career education, accountability, and changes and improvement in education. Articles in section 1 on career education focus on the following topics: the psychological and sociological factors in career decision theories; developmental perspectives and the issues and…

This progress report summarizes the activities from June to August, 1972, of the Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Corrections at Draper Correctional Center. EMLC studies are designed to determine if behavior modification techniques are feasible and provide viable alternatives to aversive control. In the Token Economy (Ecology) Project, inmates…

Broad and major concerns dealing with reading are set forth in this monograph to provoke discussion and examination by both researchers and practitioners. In Part 1, Kenneth S. Goodman presents a psycholinguistic view of language and reading (within a transformational-generative framework) as essentially a set of processes of recoding, decoding,…

One hundred and thirteen librarians attended a management conference and workshop at Purdue University on September 27-28, 1974. The objectives of the conference were to motivate and to stimulate thought and discussion about managerial style and management responsibilities. The first formal session of the conference, entitled "What Kind of…

Begun in June, 1971 and completed in October 1973, the study had the following specific goals: to define the cardiologist's role; to determine cardiology training program objectives; to determine manpower needs for cardiologists; and to determine the educational needs of cardiologists. The major information was sought from all active cardiologists…

The 1973 court cases relating to school property continued a trend toward litigating constitutional issues. For instance, a larger number of cases dealt with the relationship between the location and construction of school buildings and school desegregation plans. This chapter reviews the status and development of case law relating to school…

As part of a series aimed at developing better programs for rural youths, this study tested (summer, 1972) hypotheses about community, educational, and individual factors affecting the future adjustment of rural southeastern youths, who as 8th graders in 1963-64, represented 16 rural counties, (North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and…

This monograph presents the papers and addresses of resident and adjunct faculty of the Fifth Rochester Institute, which examined new needs of two-year college students and various innovative institutional responses. Resident faculty papers deal with a variety of issues involving career education: "Career Education: A Humanistic…