AN EXTENSIVE FIELD TRIP MADE IN 1963 PROVIDED THE MATERIAL FOR AN ACCOUNT OF EDUCATION FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH THE ELEMENTARY GRADES IN FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, NORWAY, SPAIN, ITALY, DENMARK, SWEDEN, GERMANY, SCOTLAND, AND ENGLAND. MAJOR FEATURES, INCLUDING HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, OBJECTIVES, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES, CURRICULA, SCHOOL SCHEDULES,…

PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINES, RESEARCH REVIEWS, AND 500 THESES AND DISSERTATIONS WERE CONSIDERED IN SELECTING 159 RESEARCH STUDIES FOR REVIEW. STUDIES CONCERNED WITH TEACHER EDUCATION WERE INCLUDED BUT ADULT EDUCATION WAS EXCLUDED. THE PERIOD FROM 1959 TO 1966 IS COVERED. TOPICS ARE (1) PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES, (2) MANPOWER NEEDS AND EMPLOYMENT…

The writing examination package is divided into three volumes: Examination Handbook (present volume), Training Manual, and a Ratings Manual. The volumes are interdependent, and all three must be understood before using the Training Manual to train raters. The Examination Handbook provides a context for the other two volumes. It gives a general…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) guiding the learner through a textual passage with an associate passage; (2) use of direct-functional study skill technique in seventh grade social studies classes; (3) three types of…

This report presents an anthropological perspective on the legal, demographic and community issues involved in school desegregation in Los Angeles. Views on the desegregation process expressed by lawyers, school administrators, community members, educators, and anthropologists who attended a 1978 symposium are summarized. An historical and legal…

This workbook provides information and exercises to help high school students become educated consumers and prepare them for consumer responsibilities in the world of work. It is intended to help them develop an alert consumer outlook by sharpening mathematics and communication skills and helping them make decisions based on a sense of the value…

This series of fifteen reports reviews available information on youth employment program experience. (It constitutes the third of a three-volume compendium; other volumes examine the causes and dimensions of youth employment problems and cover special needs and problems of youth employment policy--see note.) The youth employment delivery system,…

A study assessed the operation of the Adult Education Act State Grant Program to provide an analytic description of the state-administered program with emphasis on program participants, and to identify a set of impact measures that can be studied in a longitudinal design. A core study was conducted based on data from site visits, and seven survey…

Designed for those with teaching skills as well as those without and for those with backgrounds in nutrition and those without, this handbook provides information on how to organize and conduct nutrition education and cooking training for the chronically mentally ill. The first section describes the pilot program which developed the handbook,…

The purpose of this guide is to help home economics teachers facilitate the mainstreaming of handicapped students. The first section provides an overview of mainstreaming, including legislation, least restrictive environment, and role of the vocational teacher. It also discuses five areas of educational needs for handicapped students:…

This document contains a conceptual model of the curriculum-teaching-learning process as an open and organic system and nine instructional modules on the family which are based on an inductive approach. Intended originally for use in a social science course on the college level, it was designed to introduce students to the significant components…

This issue of a biannual journal devoted to teaching methods and techniques in English as a second language (ESL), with emphasis on a Japanese instructional context, consists of the following articles: (1) "The Missing Element in Foreign Language Communication: Self-Disclosure," by Gertrude Moskowitz; (2) "Seven Clocks: Their…

This curriculum guide contains learning objectives, activities, and resource and reference materials to help elementary and secondary teachers develop a legal education curriculum unit. Learning objectives are related to nine major topics: (1) Why the Law, (2) How the Law Develops, (3) How the Law Works, (4) The Court System, (5) Major Supreme…

Based on the premise that comprehension must be the true and final goal of all instruction in reading, this book is designed to provoke teachers' reflections about their own ideas, reading, language, and experiences as teachers of reading comprehension and to help them base their teaching decisions on a knowledge of theory and research about how…

This guide, one of four, is a product of the Project on Social Architecture in Education, initiated to find out what it takes to develop a program and a working social system for a new school. The project began with interviews with school planners and consultants, then moved to the study of six new innovative public schools for a two-and-a-half…