A widely replicated Title I reading-through-the-arts experiential program designed to provide remedial instruction in reading and to promote increased interest in reading and other academic areas is described in this report. Following an overview of the program and a statement of its philosophy, the report provides information about the various…

SELECTED CONTENT FROM THE HUMANITIES MAY CONTRIBUTE SUBSTANTIALLY TO IMPROVED PREPARATION OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERS. NEITHER THE SOCIAL SCIENCES NOR THE HUMANITIES ARE SUFFICIENT AS SOURCES OF CONTENT AND SKILLS FOR A TOTAL PREPARATORY PROGRAM IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. THREE MAIN FOCI ACCOUNT FOR MOST EXISTING RATIONALES FOR INCLUDING THE…

THE PROBLEM OF ACHIEVING DELINEATION OF COLLEGE TEACHING BEHAVIOR IS INVESTIGATED. THE STUDY HAS FOUR OBJECTIVES--(1) TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE AS A MEANS OF DESCRIBING INSTRUCTOR BEHAVIORS AS OBSERVED BY STUDENTS, (2) TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CERTAIN SINGLE ADJECTIVES PURPORTED TO BE DESCRIPTIVE OF INSTRUCTOR…

INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONNAIRES PROVIDED STUDY DATA TO ASSESS THE 1966-67 STATUS OF FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL HUMANITIES PROGRAMS. OF 344 SCHOOLS, 136 OFFERED HUMANITIES AND HUMANITIES-TYPE COURSES, SEVEN HAD PREVIOUSLY OFFERED THEM, AND FOUR PLANNED SUCH COURSES. DEVELOPMENT OF THEM REPRESENTED EFFORTS BY…

This series of nine brief reports summarizes the initial findings and activities of a project undertaken by Washington State and the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to examine and enhance the humanities within Washington's 27 community colleges. Report number 1 rank orders 12 humanities disciplines according to the number of credit…

Based on the experiences of several community colleges, this report examines successful and unsuccessful strategies utilized in the formation of lay advisory committees for the humanities. The report first presents brief descriptions of successful committee organization efforts at five institutions: Clark College (Vancouver, WA), Brevard Community…

Presented is a guide for developing a program for gifted and talented students (in grades k-8) which was originally implemented with 60 students in the Kyrene School District (Tempe, Arizona). Part I covers such program aspects as philosophy, goals, ways of dealing with opposition from teachers, parents, the community, the Board of Education, and…

The state of undergraduate general education is examined with particular emphasis on the trend toward providing a common core curriculum for college students. A decline in the number of degrees awarded in the traditional liberal arts fields is noted with a corresponding increase in recent years in the number of degrees awarded in…

In January 1967, the presidents of 6 independent colleges of art having similar histories and objectives formed the Union of Independent Colleges of Art (UICA), a nonprofit corporation set up to address problems common to them and seek concerted solutions. The first step, a 5-day conference, brought together the 2 senior officers of each of the…

Team teaching has been used for 4 years in the 10th-grade English classes at Upper Arlington High School near Columbus, Ohio. Units are prepared, presented, and evaluated by teachers working together voluntarily. A 6-day American literature unit introducing Romanticism has been particularly successful. The contrasts between Neoclassicism and…

Addressing the general subject of "Articulation and the Student," this speech proposes administrative approaches to the problems of articulation between social science programs at the high school, community college, and four-year college levels. Problems are organized in the form of an acrostic--"SOCIETY," which stands for (1) Substance, (2)…

At his inauguration people hail every neophyte college president as the institution's new leader and ring the changes of the importance of leadership. Some, however, never become leaders because of a fact not often emphasized: they cannot successfully handle the conflicts that inevitably come to their offices. Among the conflicts that every…

Recently, the use of thematic units in the teaching of language arts at the secondary level has significantly increased. This document discusses the theory and practice of using thematic units. The first section provides an overview of the use of thematic units and shows how such units can aid in teaching students about the composing process,…

Descriptions of nine humanities programs supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities at two- and four-year colleges are presented in this document. These include a 15-hour team taught interdisciplinary program for technology students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (Georgia); the Bay Area Writing Project, aimed at strengthening…

A study was conducted of the production, size, growth, and composition of the serial and monograph literature of the social sciences, together with some comparative data from the sciences and humanities. Data on the social science serial literature was obtained by analysis of the Check List of Social Science Serials--a machine readable data base…