Seven years after the Civil Rights Project first documented extensive patterns of charter school segregation, the charter sector continues to stratify students by race, class and possibly language. This study is released at a time of mounting federal pressure to expand charter schools, despite on-going and accumulating evidence of charter school…

Through repeated practice under conditions similar to those in real-world settings, simulator training prepares an individual to maintain effective performance under stressful work conditions. Interfaces offering high fidelity and immersion can more closely reproduce real-world experiences and are generally believed to result in better learning…

Intended to help produce safe, competent California school bus drivers, this document contains instructor's materials for a bus driver education course with eight sequential skill levels, including a final appraisal. The first section contains the curriculum's purpose and objectives, the California standards for a state-certified bus driver…

After reviewing the literature on school desegregation and the background of the comprehensive metropolitan school desegregation plan implemented in Louisville and Jefferson County in 1975, this report analyzes school enrollment and residential changes in the years after the plan was implemented. Data are presented for public and non-public school…

This assistant drivers instructor's manual for a school bus driver instructional program accompanies a student study guide--see Note. The manual is divided into five units: (1) Developing a Positive Attitude Toward Handicapping Conditions, (2) Who Are the Children with Handicapping Conditions, (3) Responsibilities of the School Bus Transportation…

Based on the firm conviction that integrated schools are vital to our efforts to provide quality education for all children, the New York City Board of Education has continued to assume a leadership role in developing and supporting programs aimed at reducing minority group isolation. A variety of techniques has been employed: selection of sites…

The handbook accents the nature of transportation and related domestic and international business activities. Its objective is to provide basic information for the newcomer to the field. Chapters 2 and 3 describe assistance available from public and private agencies, as well as regulatory requirements for foreign traders and a resume of the…

Traces efforts to develop a statewide plan for computerized school bus fleet operation by means of questionnaires distributed to all 58 county education offices, 7 regional data processing centers, and selected private school bus contractors and school districts. Findings indicate significant potential savings for fleets of 20 or more busses. (JBM)

This beginning through advanced Spanish text includes grammar explanations, readings, and exercises with the emphasis on situations involving travel and tourism. The introductory lesson covers the Spanish language, the importance of Spanish in the United States, the Spanish alphabet, pronunciation, capitalization, punctuation, syllabication,…

A study of attitudes toward enforced school busing shows that supporters of busing emphasize the provision of equal educational opportunities and improved communication among ethnic groups while the opposition emphasizes the disruption of the neighborhood school concept as the basis for their attitudes. (Author/KM)

For 10 months in 1929-30, subscribers to "The McCook (Nebraska) Daily Gazette" (a daily newspaper serving 33 towns in southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas) received their newspapers via air delivery with "The Newsboy," a Curtis Robin cabin monoplane. In an age when over-the-road travel was difficult and air travel was…

The manual is intended to recommend policy guidelines for special educators and transporters of handicapped students. Beginning with a review of the requirements of P.L. 94-142 (The Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and a discussion of transportation as a related service provided to handicapped students, the manual proceeds to…

A supplement to National School Bus Minimum Standards contains standards that refer to equipment that must be part of the bus body or part of the chassis of a bus used to transport school children to and from school in Alaska. Standards of "activity" buses that are used to transport school children to and from authorized school…

Deals with steps taken to ensure greater safety in student transportation. (IRT)

DEVELOPED TO SUPPLEMENT STUDY MATERIALS FOR THE AGE OF HOMESPUN, THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY CITES 93 BOOKS, PAPERBACKS, MIMEOGRAPHED PAPERS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES, AND MULTI-VOLUME HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS. IDENTIFICATION IS USUALLY GIVEN AS TO AN ITEM'S GENERAL NATURE AND WHETHER THE MATERIAL IS OF INTEREST TO THE TEACHER, STUDENT, OR BOTH. FORTY-TWO ENTRIES ARE…