This draft report on the development and testing of a child care Provider Services Network (PSN) model in Santa Clara County, California, includes a handbook (Manual to Optimize a PSN) designed to provide the State Department of Education and regional or local child care coordinating agencies with information needed to develop PSN optimization…

One of 10 sites chosen for multi-year funding under the National Institute of Education's rural Experimental Schools Program (ES), the New Hampshire School Supervisory Union 58 ES Project was a community-based effort, serving 3 autonomous school districts and operative between July 1973-July 1978. Serving a total population of 3,816, the project…

The Career Development guide for teacher use in Grade 9 was developed and evaluated with the help of classroom teachers in Idaho in response to the need for additional emphasis on career awareness and exploration and for opportunities for career planning. It is intended as a basic core and focuses on both the personal and world of work aspects of…

This guide is designed to assist teachers using the "Cambridge Latin Course," a multimedia instructional system developed in the United Kingdom which can be adapted to the needs of pupils of varying backgrounds, ages, and abilities. The Guide focuses on Unit I, the first level of the Cambridge materials. The materials are especially suited to…

This report presents an examination of the history of the interaction of the courts and the school administration in their quest to provide an equal educational opportunity to the children of the District of Columbia, especially in the latter's efforts to comply with a court decision which ordered the system to equalize per pupil expenditures in…

This report, concerning compliance, with the l967 and l971 court decisions on equal educational opportunity in the District of Columbia, summarizes the results of the first part of a two-part study, which examines the District of Columbia's Public School systems experiences resulting from the decrees on equalization expenditures in the elementary…

This critique by the District of Columbia's Public School System of a report said to represent an attempt to evaluate the experiences of the District of Columbia Public School System in its effort to comply with a court decision, which ordered the system to equalize per pupil expenditures in the elementary school, presents highlights of particular…

This report provides some perspectives on existing school-age child care and proposes some alternative school-age care program models which maximize the use of community resources and, thus, reduce potentially high costs. Chapters One and Two examine the current school-age "child care" services both nationally and in Region X (Oregon, Washington…

The compendium of addresses and resource documents taken from reports of three Institutes on Education for Aging held at Florida State University, 1969, 1971, and 1972 is offered as a general guide for those wishing to initiate educational programs for the aging. The document provides practical program suggestions and the views of authorities…

This selective bibliography is divided into 2 main sections. The first deals with Thai-English contrastive studies and lists 3 books, or sections in books, and 11 journal articles. The second section deals with error analysis for Thai speakers learning English and lists 2 journal articles. The entries range in date from 1955 to 1974. The books…

Developed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Video Audio Compressed (VIDAC) is a compressed time, variable rate, still picture television system. This technology made it possible for a centralized library of audiovisual materials to be transmitted over a television channel in very short periods of time. In order to establish specifications…

The career awareness curriculum guide for grades 4-6 provides units of instruction for the subjects of language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and health with each unit containing concepts, behavioral objectives, suggested learning activities, and suggested materials and resources for each of the three grades. An additional unit on…

The teacher's guide is the first in a series of three developed for primary and early intermediate levels. The learning experiences focus on helping students to develop an understanding of the family as an economic unit, to acquire elementary classification skills, to appreciate the priority families must place on satisfying basic economic needs,…

The staff development program was prepared to provide inservice education to grades K-12 school staff members in making more effective use of community resources in career education. The program was designed to help coordinators plan and conduct inservice sessions for teachers and other instructional staff responsible for using such resources. The…

The program planning guide for agricultural products was written to assist Applied Biological and Agricultural Occupations (ABAO) teachers in enriching existing programs and/or to provide the basis for expansion of offerings to include additional materials for the cluster areas of meat and meat byproducts, dairy processing, fruit and vegetable…