The Special Services Program for Disadvantaged Students is designed to assist certain postsecondary students who require special help to complete their education successfully. Through Federal grants to institutions, special service projects have been established to offer supportive services to low-income, physically handicapped, and…

This handbook in physics is one of a series of handbooks designed for the Indochinese student in American high schools. Like the other books in the series, it is not intended to replace the English-language textbook, but is designed to help the student understand the textbook. The material presented was compiled and adapted from high school texts…

Assuming that effective writing instruction requires teachers with well-developed writing skills, sufficient classroom time set aside for quantity writing on a daily basis, careful and consistent evaluation, and emphasis on writing as communication, this guide offers teaching techniques that develop the theoretical, practical, and creative aspects…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: interrelationships among different approaches to measuring listening comprehension; two methods of articulatory assessment on the responses of kindergarten children; a comparative…

The assessment manual provides information on test instruments for use with delinquent youth in the areas of achievement, perception, and potential. The manual lists publishers and prices, and gives a description of each test, along with it's purpose and application. Specific areas included are language, audition, vision, visual-motor…

This volume is a collection of 11 articles which focus on the problems of family life among military personnel with dependent children. Three brief articles included in Chapter I discuss the military child from a developmental perspective, beginning with the preschool child and continuing through latency to adolescence. Chapter II reports on…

The guide describes fifty-four diverse federal programs and activities which are potential sources of financial and other assistance to those interested in various aspects of folklife. Potential users are folk artists; folklorists; researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and ethnology; members of ethnic or regional groups involved in presenting…

Part of the Anthropology Curriculum Project, the document introduces social studies classroom teachers and junior high school students to the study of language and emphasizes the importance of language as a part of culture. The document contains a teacher background component and a student text. The teacher background material is presented in five…

If the very existence of a free society depends on a literate and articulate citizenry, the study of English in the United States should be substantially improved on every level from kindergarten through graduate school. Immediate steps must be taken to (1) focus the teaching of English upon the study of language, literature, and composition, (2)…

OUTDOOR EDUCATION IS NOT AN ADDITIONAL SUBJECT IN THE CURRICULUM, BUT IS A WAY OF LEARNING IN WHICH THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IS EFFECTIVELY USED TO TEACH THAT PART OF THE CURRICULUM THAT CAN BEST BE TAUGHT OUTDOORS, AND TO VITALIZE OTHER PARTS THROUGH FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCES. THE 363 SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES IN THIS BOOK ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE…

Some differences between Standard English (SE) and "Black English" (BE) have important consequences in communication of messages. The authors cite as an example the "habitual" function of the finite verb "be" which has no equivalent in SE. They point out that "simplification" of the English of the Bible may result in a "translation" which is…

Workshop reports of 35 committees meeting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication are included. Nine reports discuss types of composition courses or programs which emphasize either rhetoric, literature, language, or communication. Five reports discuss the needs of and programs established for special students--superior,…

Twenty-seven summaries of first-grade reading studies sponsored by the United States Office of Education are included. The studies, done in the 1964-65 school year, were made in different localities, and each was concerned with a different problem. More than one-half of the directors were full-time college professors; a few were senior authors of…

A project to design and evaluate instructional techniques to be used with emotionally disturbed adolescents compared two groups of emotionally disturbed adolescents with normal high school students. Objectives were to evaluate experimental curriculum units and to obtain data to determine to what extent learning difficulties characterize…

The purposes of this project were (1) to help teachers prepare "consumable" instructional materials appropriate for students in a desegregated elementary school and a desegregated junior high school in a low-income neighborhood, (2) to encourage the teachers to use these materials and duplicating and audiovisual equipment placed in their…