The second draft of a companion document to the publication "Guidelines for School Libraries" sets forth guidelines and recommendations for media service programs. It outlines the staff, collections, and facilities that are required to implement those programs. Media services program patterns and their relationship to the curriculum are discussed,…

This 2-year study describes existing day care arrangements for school age children and examines the problems of providing day care for these children. A total of 30 day care centers and 73 family day care homes were included in the analysis, based on observation and interview schedules developed for the study. In addition to a general description…

This report describes and evaluates the Child and Family Resource Program (CERP) in Poughkeepsie, New York, one of 11 sites of this Head Start-affiliated program. Placing a professional in appropriate community agencies to help bring about changes in the social service delivery system (the Resource Agency Person (RAP) concept) is considered a…

This report consists primarily of an executive summary of the findings of a study undertaken from July 1974 to September 1975 by Kirschner Associates, Inc., for the Office of Child Development, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in order to assess the overall effectiveness of the Project Head Start Training and Technical Assistance…

This book presents principles, guidelines, and procedures for establishing and maintaining a quality group care environment (either family- or center-based) for infants in the first year of life. The following areas are covered: (1) a general statement of program goals, (2) relationships with families, (3) program and staff organization, (4) a…

The media program plays a direct and important role in the reading program in the Groton Public Schools, functioning in a close relationship with the classroom to promote student reading in several ways. The media center provides easy access to a variety of interesting materials for students to use in practicing the reading skills learned in the…

Today's citizens expect to be informed. This book has been written to serve as a guideline for those school officials who want to develop a planned public relations program. Such a program requires the efforts of all those involved in a school operation. Therefore, the book includes ideas and suggestions for students, central office staff members,…

A 3-year demonstration project at a sheltered workshop has provided prevocational training for 137 mentally retarded young adults, placed 28 of them in industry, and employs 38 in the sheltered workshop. The report includes goals and objectives of the project, project organization and operation, training procedures and techniques, contract…

This report is one of a series of special booklets concerned with current trends in school policies and programs. The purpose of this particular publication is to provide practitioners at all levels, and others interested in education, with the most up-to-date information on some of the current issues in early childhood education. Individual…

Reviewed in the paper are studies on college and university living, facts and proposals from persons cognizant of residential living, and information about present residential accommodations of students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The aim of the paper is given to be collecting previously unknown data about housing of…

A detailed statement of ideas expressed during and after a UNESCO Consultation on Computer-Assisted Instruction (March 16-19, 1970) prepared for the information of UNESCO experts is presented in this report. After an overview of the report, a brief section which reviews some of the remarks made by the experts about computers, educational…

Designed in workbook form, this study guide for administrators is part of a 4-volume series which can be used in an in-service program designed to create an awareness in teacher aides, teachers, and administrators of the potential contribution of teacher aides to comprehensive career education. (The other volumes are a coordinator's manual and the…

The 3-year Region 10 Program was designed to develop a cooperative network of sharing and resources among states in the region. Although, during the program, specific objectives and activities considerably changed as a response to the new knowledge and conditions which the Program identified, some general characteristics and outcomes which were…

A study was conducted to determine the real and potential contributions of teacher-aides to Ohio adult basic education (ABE) programs. The literature concerned with aides in ABE, consisting primarily of reports of inservice workshops, has focused on their functions and training needs. This study had four major purposes: (1) To provide demographic…

Four school resource officers (SROs) and four school administrators were brought together by the Center for the Prevention of School Violence, located in the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to discuss effective SRO-administrator relationships. This brief research bulletin describes the results of that…