The Perception of Baby Temperament Scales (PBT) were used to elicit parental perceptions of infant temperament, with the results rated for internal consistency and congruence between parents. Data was obtained from 26 families, with both father and mother describing their first-born infants at five months of age. The PBT Scales deal with a range…

Project Impact is an innovative three year program being carried out in mutual cooperation by the Cleveland Public Schools and the Department of Education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III funding. The program seeks to humanize the educational process in the urban schools by…

Within the framework of viewing communicative competence as a prerequisite to linguistic competence, rather than vice versa, this paper considers the following: (1) the nature of communicative competence; (2) the implications of communicative competence for second language teaching; and (3) ways in which the teacher can begin to make a foreign…

This resource handbook (a continuation and expansion of an original work published in 1969 by the Curriculum Committee of the Kansas Association for the Education of Young Children) integrates curriculum ideas and learning opportunities into every part of a school day's program. The book deals with a variety of subjects grouped under the general…

This report is a description of the Flexible Learning System (FLS) project as viewed from the three major work phases of development, research and implementation. The Flexibile Learning System (FLS) began as an outgrowth of the Far West Laboratory's several years of investment in research and development of a Responsive Model of Early Childhood…

Begun in 1969, Follow Through has provided the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana the experience of actual management responsibility for a school-age program. Operating in kindergarten through third grade, the program also represents the first school-age program in which funds have been channeled through the Tribal Council instead of directly to…

The teaching experiences of 25 student teachers of secondary social studies from Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland, were investigated to determine if and why they were valuable experiences. Three kinds of data were compiled and evaluated during the ten-week student teaching experience. Student teachers kept records of their daily…

This booklet presents a set of secondary level classroom strategies for examining American history in light of issues identified by the American Issues Forum. Emphasis is on "certain inalienable rights" of citizens. This topic is covered in four sections: freedom of speech, assembly, and religion; freedom of the press; freedom of search…

This booklet of secondary level classroom strategies was developed as one in a set of materials for studying American history in light of issues identified by the American Issues Forum. Divided into four sections, the materials emphasize the meaning of the American dream, implications of belonging to a worldwide economic system, the role of the…

The course guide contained in this document was developed to provide industrial arts instructors with some understanding of emotional disturbances and remedial objectives which can be stressed with mainstreamed emotionally disturbed children through industrial arts activities. Major discussion centers on (1) laws, legislation, and regulations…

This first volume of a two-volume final report describes a project concerned with developing indepth metric teaching units in the areas of carpentry and machine shop, preparing instructional materials to teach metrics in Spanish, and developing three-dimensional metric instructional materials and cassette tapes for persons with reading…

This is number 11 in a series of resource manuals consisting of 11 sequenced curriculum guides developed by the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) for use in early childhood education programs. Emphasis is placed on the development of sensory, abstracting and mediating, and response skills. The projected order of the…

This report contains the Civil Rights Commission's evaluation of school desegregation in a variety of school districts throughout the United States and is based on data obtained from commission hearings, State Advisory Committee to the Commission meetings, mail surveys to 1,291 school districts, and 900 indepth interviews in 29 school districts.…

Various issues affecting minorities and their education are addressed in the transcripts of this broadcast program. The first speaker focuses on the problems involved in court ordered desegregation, which often includes busing. Among the causes for some of the racial tension surrounding desegregation are the increased enrollment of minorities in…

Presented is a curriculum plan designed for use in a socialization and human sexuality program for handicapped young adults. Notes to the teacher cover topics such as establishment of trust and clarification of the sexual attitudes of self and others. The need for relating to parents of students is explained and suggestions of appropriate topics…