This ESEA Title III document synthesizes three reports from regional workshops held between September 1969 and January 1970. The topics concern issues discussed at these workshops. The first two papers, reflecting a consensus of workshop participants, indicate the essential conditions that should exist within State educational agencies to…

The purposes of this study were to: develop and measure the effectiveness of instructional units designed to enable young adult farmers to improve their ability to use farm management principles when making decisions, and measure the influence that independent variables have on the young farmer's level of understanding these principles.…

This course guide, the first in a two-year sequence, is designed to give students an overview of Greek and Roman culture and language from the era of the early Aegean civilizations in Greece and Asia Minor to the Augustan Age in Rome. Six units of study are concerned with the growth and development of Greece and with the metamorphosis of Rome from…

This report is one in a series of needs assessment publications that comprise the initial phase for PROJECT DESIGN, an ESEA Title III project administered by the Fresno City Unified School District. This report summarizes educational problems of Fresno as they were perceived by district educational leaders. One researcher interviewed five members…

This study assessed the consensus among and between members of land grant college (LGC) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) staffs on perceptions of a farm demonstration program called the Rapid Adjustment Program (RAP); and measured the effect of organizational affiliation (TVA or LGC), position, tenure, educational level, major area of study,…

This report summarizes the fact finding and recommendations of almost 8,000 people in Illinois who participated in preparing for the 1970 White House Conference on Children and Youth. It assesses the needs and opportunities available for the youth of Illinois, notes the gains achieved over the last decade, and makes recommendations for the gaps…

Whether classics or contemporary works of literature would most affect the declared attitudes of high school seniors in urban areas towards certain moral values was the subject of this experiment in New York City. Two teachers each taught one course in contemporary literature and one in the classics. The students taking the classics course read…

This preliminary essay was designed to raise issues for discussion in the International Workshop on Occupational Education and Training for Development held at Stanford University, August 1967, and participants were asked to test and challenge all propositions. The essay offers a conceptual framework and a rational procedure for the planning of…

Recent innovations in the secondary school social studies curriculum require the immediate attention of school administrators. Five major areas of the instructional process which contribute to a new social studies product include: (1) objectives, (2) teaching strategies, (3) materials, (4) pupil deployment, and (5) evaluation. School…

The first in a series of reports on the exceptional child and government, the publication is compiled from the laws of the 50 states and is specifically directed to the child with learning disabilities. Not included are the laws of states in which the learning disabled receive services when no specific legal provisions are made (an umbrella law…

This report is the result of an investigation initiated by the Commission to study metropolitan area development and its social and economic impact on urban minorities. In public hearings in St. Louis, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., between January 1970 and June 1971, the Commission documented the problem with the testimony of more than 150…

The purpose of this survey and report is to gain information about parental planning for child-rearing when the mother is employed. This study is intended to explore mothers' perceptions of possible delegation of some basic child-rearing functions during the mothers' absence for employment. Comparison of the child care arrangements which the…

The Minority Mobility Project (MMP) is concerned with personnel policies and practices which impart the utilization and upward mobility of minorities and women. The report details the various policy and analytical research questions raised in the course of a project involving quantitative and qualitative analyses of primary data on personnel…

This course is designed to acquaint the student with the functions, criticisms, costs, and consumer analysis of advertising; Federal and State regulations of industry operation and advertising; Federal, State, and city agencies for consumer protection; private and business-sponsored organizations for consumer protection; and rights and…

Directed toward practitioners and program administrators in the field of vocational rehabilitation, the report deals with current concerns, issues, and practices related to rehabilitation of the blind in public and private agencies. The first chapter provides an overview of the document. Chapter 2 reports on existing and emerging occupational…