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Federal Aviation Administration (DOT), Washington, DC.
The resource guide for grades three and four presents in outline form a unit on airplanes and airports which contains a broad range of ideas for classroom activities and suggested materials from which teachers may choose. The unit's nine sections are: goals, objectives, and concepts; subject matter; occupational information; suggested motivation…
Descriptors: Airports, Audiovisual Aids, Career Awareness, Class Activities
Kendrick, Elise F., Ed,; And Others – 1975
The Appalachian Regional Commission, created via the Regional Development Act of 1965, documents a decade of contributions to Appalachian socioeconomic development in this 1975 annual report. Topics covered in this report include: the ten years of foundation building; the Region before 1965; the Region and the Appalachian Regional Commission;…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Child Development, Community Development, Developmental Programs
Lum, Phillip Albert – 1975
This study of the Freedom Schools of San Francisco's Chinatown investigated cultural and linguistic reasons for the community's withdrawal of support of the majority political system decision to desegrregated its public elementary schools. The dissertation tested alternative hypotheses focusing on middle class academic values espoused by the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chinese Americans, Community Action, Community Leaders
Mayo, Clara – 1970
The thesis of this paper was to question the validity of a goal of integration achieved through the elimination of differences. In the course of structured interviews with mothers enrolling their children for the first time in Operation Exodus, a black administered and financed school busing program in Boston, a majority of respondents indicated…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Students, Bus Transportation
Napoleon, Harold – 1975
As one in a series of eight articles written by different professionals concerned with Alaska Native land claims, this article focuses on the isolated rural village and its problems in understanding and acting upon the provisions of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1972. Designed to stimulate careful political/historical reading and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Communication Problems, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Guides
Goldmark, Peter C.; And Others – 1976
The New Rural Society (NRS) project is federally funded to apply telecommunications technology to ease the plight of the cities by upgrading life in rural communities. The resulting voluntary decentralization of people, business, and government, will, it is hoped, create the necessary conditions to bring the urban and energy crises under control.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications, Communications Satellites, Community Involvement
Laing, James M., Comp. – 1969
This report begins with summaries of the ten popular desegregation plan strategies implemented after the 1954 Supreme Court decision. These strategies encompass the following: neighborhood schools, educational parks, voluntary transfer, gerrymandering attendance zones, closing minority schools, pupil assignment, organization by grades (Princeton…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Schools, Decentralization, Desegregation Litigation
Montana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Helena. – 1970
Information is provided on education for Montana Indian tribes during 1968-69. Indian students attending institutions of higher education through the aid of Federal funds are listed by name, and breakdowns of funds allocated by the Johnson O'Malley Act are given. Tables provide statistics on Indian enrollment, attendance, and graduates, as well as…
Descriptors: Achievement, American Indians, Annual Reports, Attendance
Ferrar, Barbara; And Others – 1966
To determine what adjustments the rural family will be making in the next 15 years, this study, a part of Project '80, examines past trends and future projections for the Michigan rural family. The first section on rural family living gives rural family characteristics which include information on transportation, communications, clothing, food,…
Descriptors: Clothing, Communications, Extension Education, Family Characteristics
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1969
After 4 years of operation, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) presents this 1969 annual report and evaluation of its activities as required by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. A brief overview is given of the history of the program, the Federal-state relationship, and strategies for regional development. Appalachia is then…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Economic Development, Education, Federal Programs
Mackett, Robert; Chilcott, John H. – 1970
Number 17 in Series I of the final report of the National Study of American Indian Education describes the small community of Sells, Arizona, in terms of (1) location and climate, (2) sociocultural background, (3) transportation problems, (4) housing problems, (5) governmental influence, (6) recreation, (7) educational opportunities, and (8)…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bus Transportation, Community Problems, Economic Opportunities
Goodman, Mary Ellen – 1961
Virginia's anti-integration massive resistance laws of 1956 resulted in the closing of the public schools and the establishment of private schools for white youngsters "Foundations" were organized in Warren and Prince Edward Counties as well as in Norfolk and Charlottesville, to perpetuate segregated, traditionally oriented education.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Clergy, County School Districts, Curriculum
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report contains digests of 1967 court decisions dealing with legal and constitutional issues concerning students in public schools, parochial schools, and public institutions of higher education. All levels of the State and Federal judiciary systems are represented by the decisions. The 88 case digests are arranged under the following topic…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, Higher Education
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1967
The purposes of the National Conference on Manpower Programs for Indians were: (1) to inform tribal leaders of the total resources and programs available to American Indians; (2) to learn from tribal leaders more about their problems and needs as American citizens; and (3) to create among the participating agencies a keener awareness of the need…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agricultural Occupations, American Indians, Communication Problems
Felice, Lawrence G. – 1974
This paper reports findings from the first two years of a 3-year study to evaluate the effects of court-ordered busing in Waco, Texas. The objective of this study is to determine minority student achievement gains or losses, attitudes toward busing and school desegregation, the degree of interracial cooperation and acceptance in Waco schools, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Busing, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
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