Completion of phase 2 of a project to disseminate materials to train staff in the implementation and operation of a comprehensive guidance and counseling program resulted in workshops, classes, and a final report on the career guidance planning model called PAGE 2 (Programmatic Approach to Guidance Excellence) in Illinois. Where phase 1 saw to…

Popular theatre that speaks to the common man in his own language and deals with directly relevant problems can be an effective adult education tool in the process Paulo Freire calls conscientization--a process aiming to radically transform social reality and improve people's lives. It can also serve as a medium for participatory research. Popular…

One of the goals for community education is to encourage the widest use of school buildings for activities that promote learning among youth and adults. Through legislation passed by the 66th Texas Legislature, community education will be expanded to many more school districts and communities throughout the state. This publication has been…

Communities Alive For Living and Learning (Project CALL), designed at Kishwaukee College to help three local, rural communities develop educational, recreational, and cultural programs, is described in this report. The first sections of the report consider the need for and purposes of the project. The Project Coordinator's report presents an…

This study identifies the opinions and ideas of black scientists that are agreed upon by black elementary school teachers as being useful for improving the science education experiences of black elementary school children. Background information about the scientists and teachers who participated in the study is provided. Relevant literature is…

Rapidly increasing Navajo enrollment in San Juan County, Utah, public schools in the 1960's forced the rural school district to improve educational services to a sizable Navajo population while attempting to preserve local control in the face of changing Indian self-determination policy. The district implemented a Curriculum Development Center, a…

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is establishing a new discretionary grant program entitled Replication of Project New Pride: A Serious Offender Youth Treatment Program. Project New Pride was chosen for replication because of its demonstrated effectiveness in Denver, Colorado,…

A SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR AGRICULTURAL MIGRANT CHILDREN WAS IMPLEMENTED IN CONNECTICUT DURING 1967. EIGHTY CHILDREN IN 4 SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM WHICH WAS SUPPORTED UNDER TITLE I OF ESEA. SPECIAL EMPHASES WERE PLACED ON INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION AND SELF EVALUATION BY THE STUDENTS. TEACHERS AND OTHER STAFF…

THIS ISSUE IS MADE UP OF TWO ARTICLES, AN EDITORIAL AND A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON NEW YORK CITY'S I.S. 201 CONTROVERSY, AND CRITICAL DIALOGUE ON PREVIOUS ARTICLES. THE FIRST ARTICLE, "FOR AN ELECTED LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD" BY JOE L. REMPSON, WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO THE I.S. 201 CONTROVERSY, PROPOSES A PLAN FOR SYSTEMATICALLY INVOLVING THE NEGRO…

VARIOUS ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY IN GHETTO SCHOOLS HAVE FAILED. THE FACT THAT A FEW ALL BLACK SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL MERELY INDICATES THAT SEGREGATION OR FAMILY BACKGROUND MAY NOT BE THE MAJOR CAUSES OF GHETTO SCHOOL FAILURE. HOWEVER, A MEANINGFUL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE FOR THE GHETTO CHILD WILL NOT BE PROVIDED UNTIL THE ONUS OF…

This handbook sets out a program for early childhood education. It was prepared to be used as a guide for the testing, revision, refinement, and expansion of materials and teaching strategies. The content of the handbook is divided into nine sections: (1) Research Establishing Need for the Early Childhood Education Program, (2) Modifying Behavior…

This preparation of the Temple-Philadelphia-Trenton Teacher Corps Program describes the use of the resources which are available to most colleges, universities, school systems, and communities to achieve the goals of technology in education--individualization and humanization. Staff deployment and characteristics (including intensity and diversity…

Highlighting an on-going need to create programs that meet the multiple needs of minority aged, the Conference aimed to: identify the needs of the Hispanic Elderly in the Western Region, and develop program models which can be implemented in response to the needs. Workshop topics included: the need to coordinate the efforts and activities of the…

How do we estimate personal growth? What do experiential education programs accomplish? Personal growth (affective domain) often is fostered through experiential education programs, but it is difficult to measure the relationship between the two. One manner of measurement is the observation of external actions by a student that demonstrate what…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this second section (5.2) of module 5 (implementation--for administrators) centers on aiding in the implementation of a career education curriculum. Module 5 is one of six…