DURING ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION THE CENTER MADE ITS SERVICES KNOWN TO HELP SCHOOLS ELIMINATE THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DESEGREGATION. AMONG THE PROBLEM AREAS INVESTIGATED IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, CLINICS, INSTITUTES, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS WERE--CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE SERVICES, TEACHING METHODS, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES,…

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WAS MADE OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF IRAN, ISRAEL, PERU, AND TURKEY BASED ON PUBLIC DATA AVAILABLE IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C., AREA. THIS STUDY DEALT PRIMARILY WITH PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO RAISE LITERACY AND BASIC EDUCATION LEVELS, TEACH NONMILITARY VOCATIONAL SKILLS, AND FURTHER NATIONAL IDENTITY. THE ARMED…

THIS SURVEY BRIEFLY DESCRIBES RESEARCH IN PROGRESS OR JUST COMPLETED ON COORDINATION AND PLANNING OF HIGHER EDUCATION. FOUR GENERAL AND THREE RELATED STUDIES CURRENTLY UNDERWAY AND SIX STATE STUDIES, ALL BUT ONE OF WHICH ARE COMPLETED, ARE DESCRIBED. THE PURPOSE OF THE SURVEY IS TO PINPOINT SPECIFIC MATERIAL POTENTIALLY USEFUL TO EDUCATIONAL AND…

A CORRECTED REPUBLICATION OF THE 1947 EDITION, THE BOOK DESCRIBES A FORM OF VISIBLE SPEECH OBTAINED BY THE RECORDING OF AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THE ANALYSIS PERFORMED BY THE EAR. ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO PRESENT AN EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE READING OF VISIBLE SPEECH AND EXPANDED TO INCLUDE MATERIAL OF INTEREST TO VARIOUS…

A child's own purpose in life is to educate himself and to explore experience; consequently, secondary-school children will benefit from English teaching that encourages their imaginative creativity rather than forces strict adherence to arbitrary rules. When considering their childhood memories and the adult experiences before them, children…

Coordinated Vocational-Academic Education (CVAE), (formerly entitled Occupational Training), is the Texas Education Agency Vocational Program designed for students with special learning needs. It is intended for in-school youth possessing academic, socioeconomic, or other handicaps to such an extent as to prevent them from succeeding in standard…

Ten demonstration projects were established in selected rehabilitation facilities in cooperation with other agencies to serve mentally retarded young adults (ages 16 to 21 years, IQ's 50 to 75). Pupils in special class-workshop settings were evaluated by workshop managers, teachers, and rehabilitation counselors. Each project teacher was…

Attention is focused on the profession's current concern over the formidable problems involved in a language teacher's attempting to interpret a target culture with generalizations that might well be non-verifiable when scrutinized by such areas specialists as cultural anthropologists, behavioral psychologists, psycholinguists, semanticists, and…

A product of a 1968 Title III National Defense Education Act Pilot Workshop on Teaching Latin American Cultural Themes, this booklet is designed to (1) further the cause of Latin American understanding in Spanish, social studies, and elementary school classes, (2) to be used in future workshops, and (3) serve as a model for similar handbooks…

Designed to relate to the ongoing curriculum of the Milwaukee Public Schools, these first- and second-semester teacher guides for Spanish school telecasts at the fifth grade level comprise only one part of a series developed for the use of FLES teachers in many subject areas. A brief description of course purposes, methods, classroom teacher role,…

A 123-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles in English and Indic languages comprises this volume produced to provide information on various aspects of education in Pakistan. Significant emphasis is placed on the sections treating (1) languages and medium of instruction and (2) educational goals, developments, methods,…

This handbook sets out a program for early childhood education. It was prepared to be used as a guide for the testing, revision, refinement, and expansion of materials and teaching strategies. The content of the handbook is divided into nine sections: (1) Research Establishing Need for the Early Childhood Education Program, (2) Modifying Behavior…

English, which enrolls all students, is the only humanities course capable of transmitting culture to everyone. Students respond to cultural stimuli other than books, however; and since many justifications for traditionally narrow English courses are demonstrably not valid, English subject matter should be broadened to include methods of…

After posing the theoretical question of the state's power to conscript its citizens for military purposes, this secondary-school unit examines, in selected periods of American history, cases of citizens who have objected to conscription. The student is invited to see the changing bases of conscientious objection, and to consider the choice…

A study of value change, this unit for college-preparatory students focuses on the ethic of work in America. The student is asked to evaluate the ethic of work from the Puritans to the present and to account for changes in the concept brought about by industrialism and, most importantly, by the depression of the 1930's. He is then confronted with…