An annotated bibliography, this publication includes 578 items of research or investigation in adult education, most of which are dated 1970 or 1971. They cover adult learning characteristics, program planning and administration, learning environments, instructional methods, curriculum materials and instructional devices, personnel and staffing,…

Guidance in the values and uses of media for educators and students at all educational levels is presented in this resource guide. Over fifty educational media are discussed such as photographs, study prints, slides, filmstrips, stereoscopic views, microforms, recordings, motion pictures, television, and facsimiles of reality. Attention is also…

Gateway High School is an alternative to the present, conventional, classroom-type instructional situation encountered in most U. S. schools. Modeled on the Parkway School in Philadelphia and the Metro School in Chicago, the project is an appeal to the disenchanted learner. To abolish the dichotomy between education and life the program obtained…

This workbook accompanies the first text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It provides written reinforcement of the material presented in the text; the twenty lessons in the workbook correspond to the twenty lessons in the text and give the student practice in reading and writing what he has…

This workbook accompanies the second text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It provides written reinforcement of the material presented in that text; the fifteen lessons in the workbook correspond to the fifteen lessons in the text and give the student practice in reading and writing what he has…

This workbook accompanies the third text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It supplements and reinforces the material in the text and gives the student practice in reading and writing what he has previously studied orally in class. The ten lessons in the workbook correspond to the ten lessons in…

This interdisciplinary career orientation guide for Grades 7 and 8 provides general instructions for structuring a vocational education program, its implementation and evaluation, and a rationale. The student-centered career development activities will focus on: (1) an introduction to the world of work, (2) information on occupational clusters,…

As part of a 3-year comprehensive interdisciplinary program in industrial preparation for vocational students, this 11th Grade teaching guide consists of units on technical mathematics and guidance. Designed as supportive material for related physics and English curriculums, the first four sections of Volume 4 on algebra, vectors, simple machines,…

An observer's views of open-informal education and its central issues are presented in view of increasing interest in opening up classroom procedures and activities. The problems in defining Open Education are noted, but, in general, the events, relationships, activities and materials in the classroom are seen as being neither standardized nor…

Colonization of America is the theme in this second social studies unit for 6th grade students. Reasons for colonization are briefly discussed. The unit then takes up the Spanish settlement of Mexico, the way in which the Spanish took their culture with them to the new world, differences in the way in which the Aztecs and the Spanish perceived the…

The Plains Indians are studied in unit seven, the last resource unit in the sixth grade social studies course which focuses on culture. This unit provides two case studies of the Cheyenne and the Mandan for students to examine similarities and differences between the two cultures. The lives of the Indians are analyzed through the white man's…

This document contains the speeches and notes of workshop participants assembled to discuss the rehabilitation and renovation of existing schools in keeping with new educational requirements. Thirty-seven selections cover such topics as criteria for planning; development of school sites; community use of the schools; education and architecture;…

This curriculum bulletin contains articles relevant to problems in bilingual education for American Indians. The first section includes articles presenting a broad view of past and present activities in bilingual education for American Indians and Eskimos. The history of language instruction in American Indian schools and of bilingual education in…

This report is the second in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. The report discusses the Organizational Development Training Program, its rationale, its activities, and its relationship to the Unitized Project. It describes the main ideas of OD…

This report invites examination of what the schoolhouse is and what it can be -- an instrument to equip young people to cope with an increasingly complex world, enable them to contribute to the common good, and help them find joy in their own existence. The first section discusses traditional school design and how the knowledge explosion has made…