Summaries of research results concerning school-age children and youth are provided in four sections of this report. Each of the four substantive sections focuses on one of the following aspects of schooling: curriculum, classroom and school management, career preparation, and special needs and programs. The pages of the summary are organized in a…

Principals from 246 high schools in Washington state responded to a questionnaire survey of the speech communication programs offered in that state's secondary schools. The 85-item questionnaire elicited information on the basic course offerings, advanced courses, extracurricular speech communication activities, and the training and experience of…

Three papers address the question of why the field of curriculum alternates between periods of creative change and periods of relative inertia. Key historical influences are discussed and related to the present state of the field. Ralph W. Tyler's paper "What the curriculum field needs to learn from its history" deals with the cyclical…

TO EXPLORE THE NATURE OF THE LEARNING PROCESS, THREE IMPORTANT PROBLEM AREAS WERE STUDIED. STUDIES IN THE FIRST AREA, ATTITUDINAL AND AFFECTIVE SKILLS, ARE CONCERNED WITH INDUCING A CHILD TO LEARN AND SUSTAINING HIS ATTENTION. STUDIES IN THE SECOND AREA, COGNITIVE SKILLS, SOUGHT TO DISCOVER WHETHER GENERAL IDEAS AND SKILLS CAN BE LEARNED IN SUCH A…

THE INITIAL TASK OF THE PROJECT WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE STRUCTURE OF MAN'S KNOWLEDGE IN ORDER TO EVENTUALLY DEVELOP A DETAILED STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS OF CONCERN TO INDUSTRIAL ARTS CURRICULUM PLANNERS. FOUR DOMAINS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE PROPOSED -- (1) DESCRIPTIVE, AS THE SCIENCES WHICH ESTABLISH FACTS ABOUT PHENOMENA AND EVENTS AND DESCRIBE…

THIS SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS WORKS ON THE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION OF THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD. GENERAL DISCUSSIONS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION ARE FOLLOWED BY SEPARATE SECTIONS ON RELEVANT RESEARCH, DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIFIC PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS, AND REPORTS AND DISCUSSIONS OF PROJECT HEADSTART. THE MORE THAN 130 WORKS CITED INCLUDE JOURNAL ARTICLES,…

A REPORT ON IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY TO BE SPONSORED BY THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION WAS PREPARED AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT OF THE WOODS HOLE CONFERENCE ON FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES IN EDUCATION, HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DURING SEPTEMBER 1959. IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH WERE…

When 60 reading specialists were asked to evaluate the reading programs for the gifted in their schools, most of the 20 people who responded indicated that their school districts had programs for the gifted, but that these programs were just beginning. The respondents, most of whom taught remedial reading rather than reading for the gifted,…

This guide is designed to provide teachers with suggestions and assistance in equiping children as advocates of energy stewardship. It is divided into six discussion sections and one section dedicated to specific energy activities presented as curriculum guides for: (1) intermediate science, (2) high school science, (3) intermediate social…

The theory and research resulting from the Writing Research Unit of the Schools Council Project in England has received widespread attention. In response to that attention, and with the opinion that the ideas "Writing across the Curriculum" and "Language across the Curriculum" developed in the Project are fuzzy slogans not…

It was the purpose of this study to assess the extent of growth of machine shorthand programs, evaluate current practices related to its instruction, and determine whether its results warranted encouragement by the State Education Department. The machine system was compared to the manual system in the areas of: (1) scope and sequence of…

The purpose of an 8-week summer training institute was to provide 25 competent professional school personnel the necessary methodological skills to initiate, conduct, and report experiments on school learning and instruction. All trainees held administrative posts with responsibilities for curriculum research and development and/or instruction. A…

This is the technical report of a national survey of approximately 10,000 teachers, principals, superintendents, and state and local district supervisors. The report includes a description of the sample design, instrument development, examples of the survey forms, data collection, file preparation, and analysis procedures used in the survey as…

An examination of the lifelong learning aspect of the central and nationwide curricula in Sweden has been made by the UNESCO Institute for Education. The concept of lifelong learning is defined and criteria for developing positive attitudes and opportunities for its development are discussed. The analysis of the curricula in the basic and upper…

This report summarizes data obtained for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in a survey of the courses taught in public secondary schools of the 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 1972-73 school year. Questionnaires were mailed to a sample of 8,489 schools throughout the nation offering course work in any or all of…