The projected "continuous progress" plan to be featured by a Seattle southeast area Middle School is an integrated organization of professional educators, curriculum, instructional modes and media, facilities, and administrative management in a program which guides the cognitive and affective development of individual students throughout…

This paper emphasizes that all types of post-high school educational resources must be utilized if higher educational opportunity for all citizens is to be realized, and that a movement in the direction of coordinated planning (for the maximum utilization of institutional resources) under a "unitary system" concept is a complex procedure which…

Structural elements of rural extension organizations in 20 developing nations were analyzed in this study. Countries were chosen from 25 national "case studies" made by foreign nationals enrolled at a Cornell University extension education seminar. Types of information included official agency titles, brief historical sketches, program…

This report, which identifies problems and needs of teacher education in Florida through 1978, is the product of a 3-year task force created to explore the educational manpower needs and to study the present potential capacity of the State University System for meeting these needs. Chapter 1, which discusses the broad context of the new technology…

This report details the contributions made by ESEA Title II programs toward providing poor children with increased quantities of school library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published instructional materials. Formal and informal efforts made to assist teachers and media specialists in learning to select and utilize those materials…

A student-centered environment in which the curriculum, methodology, and strategy focus on the student's immediate and ultimate goals and view the student as a total person who is developing within a real world is suggested. The student is discussed as to self-assessment; learning matrices; contractual learning; feedback, rewards, and evidence of…

A review of educational research reveals that free and inexpensive materials are used today to a much greater extent than they had been in the past. Two studies, sponsored by the American Iron and Steel Institute, are evidence of the producer's interest in determining the strengths and weaknesses of the materials being sent into classrooms and…

In accordance with the legislative requirements of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965, the New York State Education Department continued in its efforts to fulfill its administrative responsibilities relative to the Act in assisting local school districts to establish programs designed to increase the educational achievement of…

The guide is divided into two sections: Fundamentals of Mathematics I and Fundamentals of Mathematics II. Both sections are divided into vertical columns relating mathematical curriculum concepts to curriculum performance objectives; career concepts, performance objectives, general information and teaching activities; suggested teaching methods,…

The movement to introduce law studies in the schools has gained great momentum since 1972. This directory describes law-related educational activities and programs K-12 being conducted throughout the United States. In an effort to prevent duplication of effort by providing information about projects, this second edition updates the first by the…

This pamphlet is a guide to the equipment, procedures, instruments, and resources needed in teaching a course of technical typewriting to prepare a typist for a job in a science-related office where correct spelling and use of scientific and technical terminology are of paramount importance. Described are course guidelines, performance objectives,…

This report is a descriptive evaluation of the five pilot sites of Project TREND (Targeting Resources on the Educational Needs of the Disadvantaged). The five Local Education Agency (LEA) pilot sites are the educational systems of: (1) Akron, Ohio; (2) El Paso, Texas; (3) Newark, New Jersey; (4) Portland, Oregon; and, (5) San Jose (Unified),…

The child development guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, was developed in a 3-week curriculum workshop at Winthrop College in June 1972. The identified objectives and learning experiences have been developed with basic reference to developmental tasks, needs, interests, capacities, and prior learning experiences of students.…

The clothing and textiles guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, was developed in a 3-week curriculum workshop at Winthrop College in June 1972. The identified objectives and learning experiences have been developed with basic reference to developmental tasks, needs, interests, capacities, and prior learning experiences of…

The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating algebra curriculum concepts to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, suggested teaching methods, and resource materials. Career information on a variety of occupations includes comments on what a person in the occupation does, the level of education…