The social, economic, and political conditions that exist in Michigan are outlined in an attempt to predict what effect these conditions will have on the future of the state's public education system. Accompanying the depressed economic status of Michigan's automobile industry and the state's declining school enrollments, numerous cutbacks have…

This module, one of six on teaching consumer matters to low-income groups, focuses on the appropriate uses of credit. It provides basic information about credit, particularly as it applies to low-income people, and offers some techniques which help the instructor present the information to these clients. Topics include a definition of credit, why…

This guide is a collection of profiles of 242 organizations which serve as resources for the bilingual education community. The organizations span a wide variety of purposes and language groups, and run the gamut from major national associations to locally significant, community-based groups. This compilation includes entries which appeared in the…

This directory of 14 units at universities offering programs in librarianship and information science and their professional personnel provides a descriptive overview of the extent and variety of training in these fields available in South Africa in 1979. It includes, in separate sections, a directory of institutions; information about…

Differences in conditions in the U.S. and one developing country, the Bahamas, suggest that evaluation of higher education programs are more welcome in the latter. U.S. evaluation programs, such as Florida's annual review of selected disciplines in its nine state institutions of higher education, are few in number and have spread only recently, in…

Bulletin 4 of the European Documentation and Information System for Education (EUDISED) compiles citations and abstracts of on-going and completed projects in educational research and development from 14 participating countries. Projects are grouped and cross referenced according to facets and sub-facets of the EUDISED Thesaurus, which precedes…

This document is a partial bibliography for marine educators in a truly cross disciplinary sense. It is intended for those who teach art, music, social studies, mathematics, business subjects, home economics and wood shop as well as science. Many marine science curricula guides are included in this bibliography. An introduction which indicates the…

This bibliography includes books and journal articles concerned with environmental education on the elementary and secondary levels. Complete bibliographic information is included for each entry along with general and specific descriptor codes. These letter codes describe the resources according to primary objective of listing (sourcebook,…

In this group of presentations from the 1978 National Conference on Higher Education, three researchers examine the need for the educational community to become more creatively responsive to the learning needs of adults. K. Patricia Cross delineates the difference between "adult education" and "adult learning". She discusses findings on adult…

Following a short paper on the rationale for aging education at all levels, several resource lists cite curriculum materials and general references on aging. Aging education is defined to encompass educational programs at all levels aimed at helping students learn more about the nature and problems of growing old. Focus is on the elementary and…

This annotated bibliography and guide to sources for free and inexpensive materials is intended for teachers-in-training and inservice educators in grades K-12. It provides short written guides to evaluation, selection, acquisition, and utilization of materials, as well as the annotated listing of 116 sources including the names and addresses of…

This directory of teacher education programs in bilingual education within the New Jersey higher education system includes programs at public two-year colleges, public four-year and graduate colleges, and independent colleges. Program offerings at each of these institutions are presented in tabular form. A profile of each institution indicates…

Reports of methods by which selected high schools have integrated energy education into classrooms are presented. The 12 case studies report what resources the schools have employed and how they have utilized these resources. Also included is information concerning other curriculum materials the teacher may find useful. A number of sources of such…

Examples of energy education programs in selected elementary classrooms and schools and the resources to use to provide energy education are presented. Included are fourteen reports of energy education programs submitted by the teachers who are using them throughout the United States. It also contains an annotated bibliography of the listed…

A YEAR COURSE IN NINTH-GRADE SCIENCE WAS IMPROVED BY THE EVALUATION OF EACH LESSON USING A LEARNING PROFILE STUDENT RATING TECHNIQUE.THE PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE TO MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY OF SCIENCE INSTRUCTION, TO MEASURE IMPROVEMENTS, TO TEST EFFECTIVENESS OF NEW MATERIALS, TO SUGGEST WAYS OF IMPROVING INSTRUCTION, TO EVALUATE ACTIVITIES ON A…