The federal Right to Read program is funding five school-based reading programs for the third consecutive year in Ohio. In addition to money, Right to Read provides technical assistance and materials to each site. Ball State University coordinates Ohio's team. Dr. Joseph Nemeth is the federally appointed technical assistant for Ohio's five…

This bibliography has been compiled to alert educators to preschool educational television documents found in the ERIC microfiche collection and in journal literature. Abstracts of Selected documents have been taken from "Research in Education (RIE)" and journal citations from the "Current Index to Journals in Education…

The three parts into which this paper is divided are: (1) Library statistics, (2) Statistics on book production and (3) Statistics on mass media. The following main topics are discussed: (1) Organization, methodology and use of national statistics on culture and mass communication: (a) libraries, (b) book production, (c) newspapers and other…

This special educational newsletter of the American Society for Oceanography presents information on marine oriented subjects, primarily for reading by junior high and secondary school students. Major articles consider the habits and stinging effects of sharks, jelly fish, and sting rays, and what one should do if stung by these fish while…

To provide insight into the organization, interrelationship, and importance of the relevant areas of research related to special education, a study was made of citings to and from a core of journals in special education, psychology and general education. The basic data consisted of cross citings related to the special education literature. A total…

This student workbook for "The Media Works" (EM 010 879) contains ready-made forms, or worksheets, which refer to activities assigned in the text. The logbook also contains pages for open-ended activities which are not tied to the text. Examples of the activities include finding a definition of "media" by comparing people's definition of the term,…

This teacher's guide for "The Media Works" (EM 010 879) provides bibliographies of books and periodicals which cover the general field of media and popular culture, an annotated bibliography of short and feature films likely to be useful accompaniments to the curriculum, and suggestions on how to obtain photographic equipment and movie and video…

This survey of children's reading interests in New Zealand, conducted in 1969, sought to discover which books, writers, magazines, and comics children read; what determines their choices; what they look for in a book; and where they obtain their reading material. A cross section of children was surveyed at four class levels from Standard II to…

Major American research and university libraries, and even college and medium to large public libraries, are steadily expanding their acquisition of foreign materials. In view of this development, a two-week institute on the Acquisition of Foreign Materials was held at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee in 1971. The basic purpose of the…

This series of magazine articles stresses ways in which educational institutions can use direct mail advertising to promote lectures, concerts, and other programs to off-campus audiences. The application of direct mail principles to selling education is suggested, and the advantages and disadvantages of direct mailings by colleges and universities…

An authorized course of instruction for the Quinmester Program in Dade County (Florida) public schools is given for editing the yearbook. The course is designed as the second year course for yearbook editors and the business staff, with the overall performance objective being the production of a completed yearbook. Subject matter of the course…

The purpose of the study was to define a world-wide machinery registering the essential characteristics of scientific periodicals and making them available to all interested individuals or organizations. The study is a combined feasibility study and preliminary system design. No attempt was made to identify individual organizations which might…

The five articles in this journal are related to the use of traditional materials in elementary and secondary schools in Illinois. Specific topics discussed include folk literature in secondary schools, traditional songs in elementary schools, the most frequently taught literary works (a survey of Illinois secondary schools), an approach to the…

The role of women in management has become a topic of interest and importance during the last few years. This bibliography was compiled as a contribution to the Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Administration's seminar, The Emerging Role of Women in Management, held March 19, 1976. The materials included have been limited to those dealing…

The author, the editor of the "issues and dialogue" section, reviews the literature on elementary school counseling, before he leaves his editorial position. He discusses the issues faced by counselors in the past and predicts the problem they will face in the future. (SE)