Written in English and Spanish, the handbook is intended to (1) provide useful information from numerous sources to school administrators, education program staff, and home-school liaison personnel; and (2) assist school staff in informing migrant parents about their rights and responsibilities, both as members of parent advisory councils (PACs)…

Focusing on courses in typewriting, this guide is one of a set of four articulation guides designed for articulating between secondary and postsecondary business education courses. (The other three guides focus on courses in accounting, shorthand, and office procedures.) Each guide presents a general course description, outlines of the major units…

This collection of three monographs focuses on the development of computerized student and personnel recordkeeping systems. Descriptions of three different computerized systems are presented. The first monograph describes the efforts of the School of Education at Florida International University to overcome problems related to the management of…

GRADED AND NONGRADED CURRICULUMS ARE REVIEWED, AND COMPARED, AT THE FLORIDA STATE PRISON. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A LITERATURE REVIEW, INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT TESTS, PUPIL INTEREST INVENTORIES, STUDENT RECORDS, OBSERVATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND CASE STUDIES. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE GRADED CURRICULUM HAD WEAKNESSES IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECTS,…

The preparations, forms, checklists, parental permission letters, and pre-planning procedures necessary in conducting and participating in an outdoor school program are related. This teacher information material includes: outdoor school staff member's classroom visitation, classroom preparation for the outdoor school, films and materials, post…

Step-by-step procedures for utilizing the computer support system of Miami-Dade Community College's Life Lab program are described for the following categories: (1) Registration--Student's Lists and Labels, including three separate computer programs for current listings, next semester listings, and grade listings; (2) Competence and Resource…

The hypothesis that the existing Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) can be used to promote continuity of learning for adult migratory farmworkers was tested. After an initial and careful study of the existing MSRTS combined with an analysis of the new system to be implemented, it was determined that the MSRTS can be used. The…

This is the student edition of EA 007 343. It provides the student with a detailed record of his educational progress. (Author/IRT)

Intended for the specialist in low vision rehabilitation, the manual provides information on low vision evaluation, low vision aids, and perceptual learning. A large section of the document is devoted to illustrations and information on (including use, cost, and source) 15 near and 8 distance vision aids such as the Coil Hi-Power Reader, hand…

On November 11 and December 5, 1975, the subcommittee heard testimony on: (1) the administration and organizational structure of programs with the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) designed primarily to enhance the educational opportunities for the children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and (2) the Federal government's responsibility and role…

The automated identification of students as they progress through an instructional program is described as an essential capability of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS). Performance characteristics of procedures for linking data to individual students (whose records are maintained by IMS) are…

The Instructional Management System (IMS) developed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) processes student and teacher-generated data through the use of an optical scanner that produces a magnetic tape (Scan Tape) for input to IMS. A series of computer routines, OPSN, preprocesses the Scan Tape and prepares the data for transmission to the…

Schools must keep basic records about children. Names, addresses, birthdates, courses taken, and grades received must be recorded for review by teachers, counselors, college admission officers, employers, and others. Problems begin to form around what different people in various places define as a record, what entries should be made into it, who…

The National Urban League has prepared this handbook as a guide for parents who want to improve systems and change schools. It is written with the hope that parents will use it as a tool to improve the quality of their children's education, striking out at the root causes that make our schools instruments of ignorance. Since laws vary from state…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a statistically significant difference in selected factors between American Indian students who persisted at the University of New Mexico and at New Mexico State University and those who did not. Subjects were 135 Indians and 200 non-Indians at the University of New Mexico and 68 Indians and…