"Hippies" were questioned about drug usage, personal background, and attitudes. It is suggested that the "hippie" movement is primarily a symptom of alienation from the dominant values of society, although the nature of the sample precludes firm generalization. (DG)

Thirty-seven articles describe efforts of Kentucky educators to keep pace with accelerating educational change and to recognize outstanding work of secondary school systems and individual teachers. Emphasis is upon making schools responsive to the varying and urgent demands of life in a highly technological changing society, and further, helping…

The management of education is an increasingly important consideration throughout the nation. Tested management concepts and systems are needed for vocational and technical education to efficiently resolve the complex problems of: (1) policy development, (2) planning, (3) provision and utilization of facilities and equipment, (4) budgeting and…

This document presents some ideas about initial reading instruction in bilingual education. The bilingual programs created in 1969 seek the creation of equal educational opportunities through the use of instruction in a native language to children who speak a language other than English. Such programs attempt to teach two languages concurrently…

This book provides a discussion of rhetoric and its importance in second language learning in general, with specific remarks on problems in teaching English as a second language. Logic (not in the strictest philosophical sense), the basic rhetoric, is evolved out of a culture; it is not universal. Rhetoric is not universal either. Rhetorical…

This document discusses three educational experiments currently in progress within the Applied Language Research Center. Each of the programs concerns problems relating to teaching Spanish-speaking pupils in a public school setting. The Grade One Experimental Project is designed to determine if instruction in Spanish at the primary level (in an…

TEACHER EDUCATORS AND STATE SUPERVISORS FROM THE CENTRAL STATES PARTICIPATED IN A 3-DAY SEMINAR. TEXTS OF THE FOLLOWING TALKS WERE GIVEN--"NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION," BY HOMER E. EDWARDS, "OBJECTIVES, GOALS, OR FUNDAMENTALS OF HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM," BY RAY AGAN, "TEACHING BASIC PRODUCTION…

THIS BROCHURE SUMMARIZES THE WESTERN STATES SMALL SCHOOL PROJECT. INCLUDED ARE THE PROJECT'S BASIC ASSUMPTIONS, CRITERIA FOR MEMBERSHIP, A LIST OF THE FIVE PARTICIPATING STATES, THE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT, A DESCRIPTION OF FOUR MAJOR PROJECTS ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE SMALL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, SIGNIFICANT RESULTS OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES, A CAREER…

AN EVALUATION WAS MADE OF A PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDED PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL AND GUIDANCE SERVICES TO DISADVANTAGED NONPUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS TO DEVELOP THEIR EDUCATIONAL MOTIVATION, PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT, DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-WORTH, AND "WHOLESOME MENTAL HEALTH." CLINICAL CENTERS WERE OPENED TO PROVIDE A RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, AND A…

This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…

This manual is an introduction to field techniques for undergraduate anthropology students. It describes 14 projects, each devoted to a traditional area of anthropological inquiry. A "method" or "data collecting tool" is suggested by which each topic may be investigated profitably. Project 1 describes a suitable beginning field assignment.…

The Bay Area Bilingual Education League (BABEL) is a five-district consortium joining forces to confront the need for bilingual education. It encompasses pre-kindergarten through high school. The program incorporates teacher and instructional assistant training ranging from teaching techniques and methodology to cultural awareness. All of the…

Although researchers have suggested recently that the student instructional domain needs to be explored, most studies continue to cast their designs in relation to end of course ratings that obstruct developing a more inclusive model for classroom behaviors. Hypothesizing that expectations function as prior cognitive states, activating and…

This handbook is designed to assist community college administrators in using the various reports generated by the faculty and staff subsystem of the Illinois Community College Board management information system. Among the reports generated by the subsystem are: faculty and staff salary report, class size by instructional type, number and percent…

Topics and ideas for infusing global perspectives on interrelatedness into the secondary social studies curriculum are intended to be used selectively by teachers. The major objectives of the guide are to help students become aware of global interdependence and implications and problems which accompany interdependence. Section I presents ideas for…