This bibliography provide a listing of over 3,000 higher education holdings in Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Part 1, a listing of books, categorizes according to development of higher education, issues in higher education, nontraditional learning, evaluation and accreditation, economic and business aspects,…

This collection of papers briefly describes a curriculum for an early childhood education program based on parent participation and community involvement, and offers guidelines for school volunteers. The early childhood program described calls for: (1) parents and volunteers to be involved in the planning, implementing, modifying and evaluating of…

In order to provide the educator with effective ways to translate new curriculum goals into classroom practice, this book presents seven case studies of curriculum change in Great Britain and the United States. The studies offer descriptions of a variety of phases in planning and implementation including curriculum content, planning, institutional…

A program, Individualized Prescribed Instruction (IPI), designed to permit the individualization of elementary reading is described. The program is divided into four stages: prereading, decoding, transition, and skills development and application. The reading curriculum has been developed by sequencing the specific reading skills that need to be…

The Milwaukee Bilingual Program was initiated in September, 1969 and funded under ESEA Titles VII and I and under Milwaukee Public Schools' Local Funds to develop a curriculum taught in both Spanish and English in order to prevent the hindering of learning and lowering of self-esteem often experienced by newly arrived or recently arrived pupils of…

This study proposed to examine the feasibility of implementing the total Florida State University Model for Preparing Elementary Teachers, by analyzing the cost/management factors and the human factors involved. It presents a conceptual extension of the specifications to an implementable instructional model, which was utilized as a theoretical…

This guide is organized around fundamental economic concepts which are applied to particular themes in United States history. The concepts deal with such things as availability and use of resources, division of labor, trade, and are illustrated through the following situations: 1) Indians of the Pacific Northwest; 2) explorers, fur traders, and…

This guide traces and amplifies basic economic concepts through various periods in United States history, such as: 1) discovering the New World; 2) Colonial Period; 3) from the Revolution to the Civil War; 4) regional approach to the American economy; 5) modern period. The concepts deal with such issues as resources and their development and use,…

This study was concerned with an investigation and analysis of curricular and administrative change within specific categorically funded language arts programs and was directed toward the discovery and examination of the current status of curriculum development as related to the improvement of instruction and equilization of educational…

Designed as a manual for human and social service agencies and programs engaged in curriculum and career development, this technical paper describes the Social Service Aide Project (SSAP) Functional Task Analysis Data System resulting from Phase I research and Phase II analysis and refinement. Sections discuss and diagram these system components:…

A 3-year Project ABLE social studies curriculum for vocational students was developed by high school teachers around general vocational, citizenship, knowledge, and self-fulfillment objectives and emphasized problem-solving ability, use of new instructional materials, different teaching strategies, and individualized instruction. Structured at…

PLAN Social studies curriculum attempts to assure that each student achieves educational objectives appropriate to his individual needs and interests. The guiding framework is presented in the form of a list of over one hundred long-range objectives (LRO's). The major objective areas are: inquiry, problem-solving and planning, affective…

Reviewed in this summary are the seven evaluations completed by the Anthropology Curriculum Project (ACP) of their own materials for grades 1-7. These seven are: 1) cognitive achievement within the premises of a single discipline approach and differential teacher preparation; 2) differential cognitive achievement by grade level holding teatment by…

The attitudes of two groups of teachers and administrators from inner city schools in northeastern Ohio, who met at Kent State University in the summer of 1969 to discuss problems relating to education and the disadvantaged child, were contrasted using a Q-sort technique. One group of 32 was writing an innovative social studies curriculum; the…

This paper describes an application of behavior modification techniques and new means of presenting academic materials to the 450 children in the kindergarten and first grade of a small semi-urban community. Four years of research on behaviors useful in educational diagnosis and prediction of future success revealed two tests highly related to the…