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…

The major facets by which one views man in the community and the possible relationships between education and community are examined. The author senses a crisis of will in the education and helping professions due to a loss of faith in the liberal vision of a modern democratic society. Believing education must create balance between primitive and…

The report briefly describes the workshop in personalizing adult basic education with respect to objectives, organization, and evaluation. Contributions of resource persons to the workshop included the following papers (texts printed in full) which comprise approximately 45 pages of the report: Planning for Adult Education, William P. Miller;…

Little use has been made of the process of problematic situations as an evaluative measure in studying human relations. This paper reports on work carried out by the author to further research and development of this measure related to human relations. An analysis is made based on three elements which are necessary for defining interest…

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…

The economic rather than the educational aspect of Brazil's Ministry of Education and Culture is presented in this historical summary. The study was done as part of Brazil's national program of educational reform. Brazil is currently re-evaluating its school system with the view of adopting a nationally-administered system similar to that in…

This is one unit of the series described in SO 000 378. It is necessary for the students to understand that the seeds of international cooperation must be cultivated, and that the methods of peaceful solution to world conflict must be constantly re-evaluated and supported. Several specific objectives are listed: 1) to understand the basic foreign…

This is one unit of the series described in SO 000 378. To insure that his unit will go beyond the general treatment of government thought in Civics or American History classes, emphasis has been placed on the methods of inquiry which will help the student achieve the self-realization of his own role in government. An examination is made into the…

The Project's report on its second year gives a detailed description of the construction and trial of its innovative 8th-grade American History course. Local history and local and national contemporary problems were interwoven with the traditional content of American history. Teaching-learning methods and activities included film-viewing,…

This book, written from the viewpoint of both the immigrant and the native-born, provides practical information that is helpful to communities attempting to present their demands for better education more cogently and helps educators meet such demands with appropriate programs. The three major groups most affected by bilingual education programs…

Training activities authorized under Part B of Title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962, as amended, are described and evaluated and recommendations are made for continuation and improvement. The report includes sections on program innovations, experimental and demonstration programs, changing goals, teachers,…

The successes of six handicapped adults are related; the incidence of disability and the problems of employment are presented. Methods of organizing to promote job opportunities are explained, and the following major projects for volunteer committees are reviewed in terms of the current state of affairs and what can be done: projects on…

Information is provided concerning special education throughout Texas, the relationship of special education to other programs in the state for handicapped persons, services for handicapped persons, and the division of special education and its functioning. A field study is provided in which teachers, supervisors, and administrators of special…

This study, conducted in 1967, in Burnett and Forest Counties, Wisconsin, attempts to show the present situation of the residents of the area (characterized by low income, marginal farm land, high out-migration of the young, a disproportionately large number of the aged and the very young, high welfare costs and a dwindling tax base). The…

This teacher's guide for grade 1 is part of a curriculum developed for teaching social studies in the first eight grades. The objectives of the curriculum, 11 key concepts to be studied in all grades, and 19 behavioral objectives to be attained in the first year are listed. This year's program is based on the family and has three units, each…