Written for administrators of early childhood program centers, this book offers tips on how to increase enrollment. The book offers suggestions rather than a theoretical overview or a comprehensive marketing strategy. Suggestions offered include: (1) Offer a quality program; (2) be aware of your target market; (3) make your program unique; (4)…

Student activities, or what used to be termed extracurricular activities, is now being called by another term--third curriculum. Third curriculum is the most recent term used to describe a wide variety of school-sponsored teams, clubs, and organizations. Several aspects of the third curriculum are detailed: (1) need for student activities; (2)…

This kit is intended to help program planners write the information needed for an effective brochure advertising a workshop, seminar, conference, class, or academy. The kit contains the following sections: (1) Benefit Headlines Capture Reader Attention; (2) Establish a Need Quickly; (3) Identifying the Audience; (4) Making Top Names Tops; (5)…

To help secondary school principals make meetings more effective and personally satisfying, this pocket-size pamphlet contains guidelines in the form of 40 rules. Each page contains a rule, a paragraph elaborating on the rule, and a key self-evaluation question. For example, "Better Meeting Rule No. 12 'Stay on Task'" concludes with the question…

This paper briefly examines the nature of provisions for citizen participation in selected federal programs. Requirements for citizen involvement are discussed under three major categories: (1) organization and membership requirements, (2) duties and responsibilities, and (3) responsibilities of state and local agencies to accommodate citizen…

This brochure gives an overview to solar photovoltaic energy production. Some of the topics discussed are: (1) solar cell construction; (2) parallel and series cell arrays; (3) effects of location on solar cell array performance; (4) solar economics; (5) space aplications of solar photovoltaic power; and (6) terrestrial applications of solar…

This pamphlet describes the Space Telescope, an unmanned multi-purpose telescope observatory planned for launch into orbit by the Space Shuttle in the 1980s. The unique capabilities of this telescope are detailed, the major elements of the telescope are described, and its proposed mission operations are outlined. (CS)

The events of the five years 1967-1971 stimulated some of the best thinking the student council movement had seen to that time. This anthology is an attempt to capture some of that thinking. Important themes emerge from these articles: (1) a humanistic concern for the people student councils are meant to serve, (2) the reform movement, and (3)…

This pamphlet compiles conference discussions on the implications of various types of facilities on environmental education programs. (Author/MLF)

The Garden Club of America has compiled this environmental education packet of informational materials to help teachers educate their students for survival. The "Study Guide" contains essays by ten authorities on topics of population, soil, air, water, power and energy, solid waste management, open space, public lands, oceans, and wildlife. Each…

An explanation of management systems being utilized in vocational education, this pamphlet is designed for vocational educators, administrative personnel, project directors, and other individuals interested in this aspect of program development. Answered are these questions: (1) What are some systems and techniques that may be adapted for use in…

This pamphlet outlines programs to date of Federal agencies that provide funds for day care projects. Developed by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, these programs are federally funded by seven agencies: (1) Department of Agriculture, (2) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, (3) Department of Housing and Urban…

This report lists 329 books in the library of the Training and Career Development Division of the Personnel Service. The books are listed under six categories. They are: personnel administration (46), management and supervision (60), general reference (57), training (20), American Management Association (AMA) publications (118), and United States…

Excerpts from two propaganda leaflets distributed by Germany during World War I to demoralize American soldiers. Teaching suggestions encourage students to examine the leaflets' tone, guess who the authors might have been, and analyze the leaflets as examples of a propaganda technique. (AV)

Analyzed inducements offered in brochures advertising the volunteer army. Found that (1) the appeals focused on education benefits, military/civilian job training, and economic incentives and (2) few appeals featured the intrinsic satisfactions of military service. Considers the implications in terms of recruitment and retention problems. (PD)