This report describes a number of innovative continuing education programs for Canadian women under the auspices of universities, local educational authorities, and other organizations. It covers daytime (largely part time) classes at Mount St. Vincent University, the Thomas More Institute, and the Universities of British Columbia, Calgary,…

Eleven papers delivered at a meeting of an editorial advisory board are contained in this third volume on educational reform. First, an argument is made in favor of the British examination system. The psychological and cultural climate of French schools is investigated as related to pupils' inability to read and to master the written language, and…

This document, which contains sixteen reports, focuses on various aspects of the teaching of reading. Report topics are: individualized reading, language experiences in reading, beginning reading, readiness in reading, an approach using decoding, recognizing and stimulating reading interests, functional reading in the junior high school, study…

This is the second of a two volume report of a Day Care Inventory. The author presents an evaluation of the Inventory and make recommendations for changes, deletions and additions so that more satisfactory measures will be available for use in the study of the impact of day care on child development. The evaluations are based upon the findings…

This program evaluation of the 1967 summer Head Start Program examines data in these areas: (1) program functioning; (2) student gains and school readiness; (3) parent involvement; and (4) ancillary services. The report evaluates 720 classrooms which contained 23,000 children and utilized 51 supervisors, 260 head teachers, 728 group teachers, and…

The manual provides teachers with not only educational outdoor activities, but also with activities that can be provided on an individual level. The only equipment needed for most of these activities is a bought or homemade "baggage tag". These tags are used for a variety of purposes such as plant and animal identification, nature quiz games, and…

The ETS Matched Pictures test was used in the longitudinal study to measure children's comprehension of certain grammatical features, such as past and future tenses, negation and prepositions. The task materials for both I and II consist of a set of cards, with each card having a pair of black and white pictures. Both pictures in a pair contain…

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program was founded and is funded by the Newark Construction Trades Training Corporation. Internally, NCTTC provides all services to trainees other than the ABE component. Specifically, it provides a recruitment function, guidance function, placement service, shop training program, and supervision of on-the-job…

Summarized in the digest are state laws and regulations relating to educational programs for children with speech, hearing and language problems. It is recommended that the digest be used in conjunction with model regulations developed by the American Speech and Hearing Association to serve the following purposes: to facilitate better…

Approximately 400 books, curriculum guides, journals, and educational resource materials published between 1967 and 1973 are listed in this annotated bibliography of bilingual bicultural materials on the Spanish-speaking, American Indians, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russians. This listing shares with bilingual bicultural project personnel…

This reading textbook contains a series of stories designed to relate to the natural interest of the school child. Students learn about a Puerto Rican family living in New York. New vocabulary is introduced gradually for the student to memorize. Included are exercises in oral expression and comprehension, auditory discrimination, intonation,…

This study guide for high school and college students examines selected, revolutionary political films made by Godard, Rocha, Solanas, Sanjines, and others, notably Czech and Cuban film-makers. This guide stresses an aesthetic, auteuristic approach and touches upon film production procedures. The films recommended for study range in technique from…

Presented in the curriculum guide for teachers of mentally retarded (EMR) children in Brevard County, Florida, are preprimary, primary, intermediate, junior high school, and occupational training programs. Listed for preprimary level are skills objectives and suggested activities for such areas as auditory discrimination, constancy, and tactual…

This paper makes the following points concerning the teaching of Spanish reading to the Spanish dominant child: (1) Encourage parents to begin teaching their children to read as early as possible, (2) teach reading first in the mother tongue of the child, the language the child knows best, (3) isolate and solve the difficulties the child finds…

The purpose of this manual is to illustrate different approaches to tutoring with examples from tutoring English language skills, science, and math. Many of the tutoring principles discussed with reference to these subjects can be applied to tutoring in other subject areas. The Guidebook discusses issues associated with tutoring across ethnic…