This issue of the Curriculum Report looks into new social studies programs developed by ten different schools across the country. Analysis of these programs is facilitated by discussing and categorizing the changes in social studies as those concerned primarily with content and those associated with strategies of instruction. Four major content…

In 1642, the Massachusetts General Court required parents to attend to the education of their children. Since then, the visions of the early colonists have fallen victim to rapid population expansion and a highly specialized technology, and the close ties between the school and the community have been seriously weakened. Recent reports, however,…

This textbook, designed for use in college undergraduate programs, presents some ideas, materials, and methods for establishing a successful curriculum within a child care program. Included is a review of child care in the United States, ideas for working with parents and involving the community, suggestions for indoor and outdoor play and for…

The first part of the document presents a collection of workable ideas, organized by topic, which were submitted by principals who used them to improve the programs in their schools. Some areas of interest covered include community involvement, student-choice electives, parent reporting, career education, and counseling and changing behavior. Also…

The program covers two Texas public school districts, Harlandale and San Marcos, and Southwest Texas State University. This report, however, deals only with the Harlandale Bilingual Education Program, which provides bilingual education for pupils in grades K-5 who have limited English speaking ability. Objectives are: to reduce their educational…

The idea of computerized car pooling originated in an American Contemporary Issues class at George Washington High School in Denver, Colorado, in the fall of 1973 when a fuel shortage was imminent. The students saw car pooling as a way to take effective action and, with the expertise of a computer math class, devised a program capable of…

ISSUES, an intermediate-grade social studies program, actively involves 2,000 Kansas City students of their urban communities. Psychological and sociological perspectives on urban problems stress helping children to better understand social realities, their peers, and themselves. The students spend approximately half of their social studies time…

The Joint Hearing before the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Education and the Special Subcommittee on Human Resources was particulary concerned with the problems of bilingual education. The hearing, held February 1973 in Los Angeles, California, focused on the Southwest in general and on California in particular because of the greater bilingual…

This report describes and evaluates the Clarifying Environments Program (CEP), an innovative attempt by the University of Pittsburgh to improve educational environments in the community through university-community interface. The first part of the paper presents the goals, theory, and history behind CEP. Implementation of CEP learning labs for…

Results of the evaluation of the 244 Title I programs in South Dakota for the fiscal year 1970 are provided. The sections of the report are as follows: Purpose of Evaluation; Basic State Statistics; State Department Staff Visits; Changes in SEA Procedures; Effect upon Educational Achievement; Effects on Administrative Structure and Education…

The initial plans for the National Institute of Education (NIE) program in early childhood education are described. The first part of the document contains a discussion of the relationship between planned NIE programs and existing early childhood federal programs. In both planned and existing programs, disadvantaged children are the primary…

The purpose of this bibliography has been to develop an operational resource to persons wanting to become effective community change agents. It is used in conjunction with the community-training activities of the University of Cincinnati's Community Human Resources Training (CHART) Program, described in the introduction to the bibliography. The…

In this booklet, specialists in varied academic disciplines seek to determine how the classroom can function to sharpen man's understanding of the population problems and to prod him to the application of reason. Demographer and sociologist Philip Hauser places the problem in the framework of explosive world population growth, and highlights the…

In a questionnaire survey of 152 colleges and universities throughout the state, the Bureau of Vocational, Technical, and Continuing Education of the Pennsylvania Department of Education sought to obtain detailed, current data on educational opportunities available to adults during 1969-1970, and to formulate these data into a substantive basis…

Evaluation reports for 13 of the 23 1971 Summer Migrant Projects in North Carolina are presented in Volume II of this compilation. Each report contains the following information: (1) descriptive statistics and results of student achievement; (2) description of the project as obtained from site team reports and other available information; and (3)…