This annotated bibliography on music resources is designed to introduce music educators to the availability of books, films, single concept loops, instruments, and other audiovisual aids for a well-rounded music program in the elementary schools. Listed are (1) books and stories for children on the history of music, the lives of artists, sound and…

This research undertook to determine the nature and extent of academic and motivational change in low-achieving junior high school students with some talent in music who participated in a special music training program. About 100 students in each of five schools were selected by a screening instrument and assigned randomly to experimental or…

Part I of this book attempts to provide students with an understanding of the "academic enterprise" as a whole, and specifically the structures, people, money, myths and practices which create that peculiar enterprise known as freshman English, an experience through which the majority of college students must pass. Part II offers students a…

To interest students in mental retardation health services careers, 10 eligible prebaccalaureate students were selected to participate in a 10-week summer training program. The first 2 weeks involved orientation to informational and training aspects of mental retardation and exposure to the health services related disciplines of recreational and…

A College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB)-sponsored survey presents data derived from the questionnaire responses of a representative sample of 1,814 secondary school seniors who took the CEEB Latin Achievement Test during the 1965-66 academic year. Written analyses of questionnaire data, along with many supporting graphs and charts, offer…

Discussed is an instructional approach, "concept-distillation," which involves experiences, games, and puzzles that have the "distilled essence" of the basic concepts of the physical sciences. This approach is designed to impart a vivid and dramatic meaning and structure of the sciences for transfer in scientific thinking. The…

A nature center is an outdoor education area; a parcel of natural land where people, particularly the young, and nature can meet. It can be an educational section of a state or national forest or park set aside specifically to serve the people of one or several nearby communities. These centers usually include an educational or interpretive…

To evaluate six perceptual-motor attributes of trainable and educable mentally retarded children, a battery of tests was constructed which included body perception, gross agility, balance, locomotor ability, throwing, and tracking; 83 retarded subjects provided reliability data, and their scores, with those of 120 additional subjects, provided…

In 1965, queries sent by the Educational Research Service (ERS) to 461 school systems identified only 63 middle schools concentrated in 20 systems. Only 13 of these 20 systems enrolled more than 12,000 pupils. When school systems of similar size were again polled at the opening of the 1968-69 school year, 70 systems reported 235 middle schools.…

Modern drama criticism is rebuked for taking the "closet drama approach" which reduces the theater to yet another type of philosophical and content-oriented literary genre. Group participation and discussion are suggested as means by which the student is encouraged to stage an imaginary performance leading to intelligibility and appreciation of…

To help prepare the junior high student for personal and social adjustment, units and activities are geared to provide functional learning experiences in situations that will benefit the educable mentally retarded in his daily life. Units covered in grades 7, 8, and 9 include social studies, functional English, functional mathematics, functional…

The report in this issue of Curriculum Bulletin documents extra-curricular and after school activities adopted by Canadian urban communities in Ontario to combat cultural disadvantagement and reading deficiencies among inner-city children, pre-school through junior high school ages. The projects described in the metropolitan areas of Hamilton,…

Intended as a supplement to the social studies program in the kindergarten through the second grade, this bulletin suggests teaching materials and activities in Puerto Rican studies to provide young children with knowledge of the history, customs, values, and contributions of the Puerto Rican people. The introduction contains objectives for pupils…

This suggested curriculum for use in the Early Admissions Program with four-year-old children draws mainly on elements from child development theory and practical experiences of the writers. It is intended that this material will be used to stabilize and increase the child's cognitive and linguistic growth through effective diagnostic and…

This study guide on population, based on the official report of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future appointed in March 1970, is designed for students but is also pertinent for discussion groups and seminars in the adult community. Major objectives emphasize learning how population actions change the size and character of…