Mental health in education is conceptualized from an ecological point of view. In this framework, the school as an institution must not limit its attention to what it has traditionally viewed as its own particular area of subject matter responsibility; rather, it must perceive its responsibility as relating to the whole of human experience. This…

This course provides support, within broad limits, to the teacher who chooses any of the following objectives: 1) familiarization of students with the enduring ideas and problems of psychology; 2) data gathering and analysis skills; and, 3) knowledge of the psychological principles in human relations. Similarly, the intent is that the course of…

This manual covers basic policies and procedures governing four student loan and scholarship programs administered within the Bureau of Health Manpower, National Institutes of Health. An introductory chapter provides definitions, procedures, and reporting common to all programs, and this is followed by chapters describing: (1) The Health…

On September 27, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty. To this commission, he delegated the responsibility of making a comprehensive study and appraisal of the current economic situations and trends in American rural life. In fulfilling this responsibility, the National Advisory Commission…

Updating the findings reported in Colorado Legislative Publication No. 72, "Migratory Labor in Colorado," published in December of 1962, this 1970 staff report describes existing economic conditions of both growers and seasonal farm workers, governmental and private services available to the migrants, and some of the major migrant issues…

Intended to promote development and improvement in schools offering diploma programs in nursing, this guide presents selected principles and suggestions regarding different considerations that should be taken into account when making operational decisions. Principles and suggestions are presented for: (1) Philosophy and Objectives, (2)…

Pursuant to the Native land claims within Alaska, this compilation of background data and interpretive materials relevant to a fair resolution of the Alaska Native problem seeks to record data and information on the Native peoples; the land and resources of Alaska and their uses by the people in the past and present; land ownership; and future…

Documents announced with VT numbers only in the Fall 1971 issue (VT 014 129) of "Abstracts of Instructional Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (AIM) are included in this microfiche set. The microfiche set is arranged in the following sequence: (1) a Vocational Technical (VT) number index to documents in the microfiche collection, (2)…

A total of 453 titles of filmstrips, slide sets, and sets of transparencies available free of charge to educators are listed in this guide. More than 20,000 separate frames are offered from 95 sources. Twenty of the filmstrips may be retained permanently by the borrower. The films cover topics in the fields of accident prevention, aerospace…

This report gives precise information on salary schedules for teachers in 1,240 reporting school systems with enrollments of 6,000 or more, and for 178 selected systems in high income suburban areas with enrollments of 1,000 or more. The system-by-system listing, which makes up the major portion of this report, gives minimum and maximum scheduled…

During the Winter term of 1969, the University of Michigan Drug Education Committee charged its Survey Sub-Committee to prepare and administer a survey of University of Michigan student attitudes toward potential drug education programs, (see TM 001 090). The purpose of this survey was to determine what kinds of information about drugs were needed…

This is the third progress report on a 5-year longitudinal study of the labor market experience of a national sample of middle-aged men. The subjects were interviewed for the first time in the summer of 1966 when they were between 45 and 59 years of age. Twelve months later the sample was reinterviewed. Data from these two surveys are presented in…

A five-sided program for helping rural families in Vermont is summarized. Help is being given to agriculture, the home, the young people, the underprivileged, and the community itself. The overall aim is a balanced environment. It is pointed out that change characterizes rural Vermont and that a need for a balanced environment is slowly being…

This monograph, the third in a series of documents dealing with educational accountability, contains a compilation and an analysis of goal statements available from State departments of education on the direction of public education in America as reflected in State goals. Learner outcome goals are classified under the areas of (1) basic skills;…

Following an analysis of the task of transcribing as practiced in a health facility, this study guide was developed to teach the knowledge and skills required of a medical transcriber. The medical record department was identified as a major occupational area, and a task inventory for medical records was developed and used as a basis for a…