In recent years the focus on accountability and governance in public education has shifted from the individual class and teacher to individual schools and staffs. By the way he applies and coordinates his school's available resources, the principal determines the product of his school, the departing pupil. More effective education is becoming…

Feelings of Indians (Oneidas, Chippewas, Potawatomis, and Winnebagos) on factors of reservation life (education, community living, employment opportunities, and community problems) were surveyed through attitudinal studies conducted at selected Indian reservations in Wisconsin. Reservation families tend to be large, inadequately educated, living…

This annual report evaluates the programs run by the Vermont State Department of Education for educationally disadvantaged children. The report comprises a general introduction highlighting the operations of these programs: a descriptive summary including such items as basic statistics, staff visits, changes in State Agency procedures, effect upon…

A selected bibliography of materials dealing with education in Israel--including books, treatises, and those parts of works which treat with specific problems of education--is presented. Each entry is described in a summary of several paragraphs. The arrangement is topical, topics including the philosophy and theory of education, legislation and…

The essays gathered here portray the spead across the land of an awareness, a consciousness of social plight among minorities, since the early 1960's. The blacks, the largest minority group, were the first to attempt to act out their consciousness and make the world better for themsleves. They have been followed lately by the Chicanos and the…

The purpose of this study was to determine what impact the Emergency School Assistance Program has had on selected public school districts in the State of Mississippi, as perceived by project directors, principals, and teachers. The investigator developed and pretested a 40 item questionnaire. Random sampling procedures were used to obtain 400…

Wichita's activities funded under ESEA Title I, designed to improve educational opportunities for its disadvantaged youth, began in the spring of 1966. The major thrust has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language development. Integration policies using busing prevented the concentration of funds on…

This invitational conference examined some of the problems of measurement and evaluation in the inner city. Both the traditional tools and techniques of measurement in evaluation are being questioned, particularly by ghetto community members. Thus, a need was seen for clearly justifying the existence of testing and research efforts and enlisting…

The Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory's Communication Arts Program for American Indian and Mexican American youngsters age 3 through 9 outlines a day which consists of experiences that develop the child's oral language capacity and reading and writing skills in English. The basic plan rests on an installation strategy that assumes…

Evaluation reports for 10 of the 23 1971 Summer Migrant Projects in North Carolina are presented in Volume I of this compilation. Each report contains the following information: (1) descriptive statistics and results of student achievement; (2) description of the project as obtained from site team reports and other available information; and (3)…

The purpose of the study reported was to determine the effects of the use of daily newspapers by elementary school students on their general and newspaper reading skills. Five social studies teachers taught 50 50 minute lessons over a period of 10 weeks to homogeneously grouped pupils in grades 4-7, using three local dailies as the instructional…

Contents of this book include the following articles: "Genetics and competance: Do heritability indices predict educability?" Jerry Hirsch; "The role of experience in the development of competence," J. McVicker Hunt; "Intelligence-- why it grows, why it declines," John L. Horn; "The demographic context of metropolitan education," Karl E. Taeuber;…

The Economic Research Service has used 1964 census data to develop information on the characteristics of Spanish-surname farmers in 14 Texas counties. Selected characteristics were examined for this population and for non-Spanish-surnamed farm operators in the same counties. It was found, for example, that Mexican American farm-operator families…

The purpose of this study was to develop a kindergarten social studies unit based on selected key concepts of anthropology and to evaluate the achievement in anthropology for preprimary children. The relationship of selected pupil characteristics to gain in anthropology was also examined. Eleven Georgia public kindergarten classes which were field…

The eighteen essays are written by educators, sociologists, and psychologists based upon studies conducted between 1964 and 1966 pertaining to racially caused educational inequalities in Northern Urban cities. The authors express the idea that educational quality can be improved more by desegregation of public schools than by curriculum or other…