Disadvantaged children with reading difficulties in non-public New York City schools have been admitted to corrective reading programs administered by the New York City Board of Education since such programs were begun in 1965 with ESEA/Title I funds. In 1968-69, 157 schools and a total of 13,258 children were served in groups of 5 to 10.…

Public education has been preoccupied with the rapid development of the physical sciences and mathematics, which place a premium on developing the reasoning processes but not on the adequate construction of value judgments. The purpose of the present program is to provide a means of presenting character education within a curriculum consistent…

The 1967-68 Teacher Training and Reading Institutes constituted the third cycle of a program funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and performed under contract with the New York City Board of Education. The main objective of the training institutes was to provide teachers with training and insights particularly…

This is a statistical report on programs and student enrollments of organizations affiliated to the Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC) and the National University Extension Association (NUEA). Programs and registrations are listed by institutions under classes, conferences, correspondence, and total registrations; the total…

Contained in the bibliography are 55 abstracts and descriptive terms of documents concerned with all aspects of vocational education, work study programs, and rehabilitation techniques for use with virtually all handicapping conditions. Also included are a subject and author index, user information, and information on ordering specific documents…

Thirty-nine selected participants representing 21 states and Puerto Rico and including directors and consultants in homemaker-home health aide agencies and vocational-technical home economics educators participated in the 2-week workshop in July 1968 at Rutgers University. The objectives were to develop plans to improve and expand programs to…

Assistance from the United Nations Development Programme provided the opportunity for over one hundred participants to gather for a regional workshop in an attempt to tackle the problems of curriculum development in the South Pacific. The workshop concentrated on four major subject areas--social science, mathematics, English language, and basic…

To help teachers develop effective procedures for dealing with disadvantaged vocational students, the Baltimore City Public Schools sponsored a summer workshop in cooperation with the College of Education at the University of Maryland. As a result of this workshop, teachers were to a) become sensitive to the problems of disadvantaged students, b)…

The over-all purpose of this research project was to improve teacher efficiency in the undergraduate special education program at Southern Connecticut State College through the training of prospective teachers in the following three areas: interpersonal skills, attitudes and values toward minority groups, and clinical teaching approaches for…

The report on the 1973 Summer Workshop for New Community Junior College Presidents and Wives contains the presentations, or summaries of them, made by members of the workshop staff and summaries of the major discussions. These papers and discussions are: (1) Community College Administration: Part I, Great Challenges Ahead, and Part II, Design and…

A pilot project was initiated in the Dallas County (Texas) Community College District to: (1) introduce the instructional staff to the use of behavioral objectives, (2) provide for the development of instructional capabilities in writing behavioral objectives and in building instructional materials, and (3) assure that the results of the…

A workshop of interested science teachers from the metropolitan area of Illinois sought to increase their awareness of the career opportunities for their students in the biological and agricultural occupations that exist locally. The main purpose of the project was to establish programs in the metropolitan areas designed to match the interests of…

Organizational structure, educational objectives, and general information are presented on educational programs for the mentally handicapped in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The basic goal of Scandinavian programs for the mentally handicapped is normalization, with emphasis on social adjustment to prepare retardates for assimilation into community…

The purpose of this guide is to provide administrators and teachers who work in education programs for migrants with a tool which may be useful in guiding the development and appraisal of such programs. Objectives for migrant education programs and the criteria for program appraisal included in the guide have been developed through the efforts of…

The English Curriculum Committee of the Springfield (Massachusetts) Public Schools developed the Language Curriculum Guide for Low Achievers for two purposes: (1) to establish self-control of verbal and mental capacities so as to create a higher degree of self-respect and rapport with others; and (2) to produce competent workers, sound thinkers,…