The Governing Board of the Unesco Institute for Education, in its 21st Session held in Hamburg in April of 1969, decided to publish a book commemorating the tercentenary of the death of Jan Amos Comenius. This great 17th century educator is still a constant inspiration to those concerned with the improvement of contemporary education. Publication…

The Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs, in its annual report for 1970-71, lists the tribes and their populations, the commission's membership, and legislative advisory committees and consultants. As noted, projects completed in 1970-71 included the printing and distribution of the 1971 tribal directory and other materials published by the…

The controversy over the causes of intelligence--genetic or environmental--is reviewed. More specifically, the subject of the consistently lower intelligence scores for blacks is analyzed. Much attention is devoted to Jensen and his monograph published in the "Harvard Educational Review," entitled "How much can we boost IQ and scholastic…

In times of social change, the major institutions of a community undergo sometimes drastic modifications, even restructuring. Institutions such as education, government, and the family go through many interim stages before reaching a static point. If a pattern of these changes can be established, or if a cause and effect relationship can be…

In May 1970, USOE requested new training designs for research, development, diffusion, and evaluation personnel in education, and a consortium of interviews conducted on a nationwide basis in 21 selected institutions engaged in one or more of these activities, and the results confirmed extensive national and regional needs for trained RDD&E…

The training consortium described in Vol. 1 of this report (SP 005 047) determined national needs for RDD&E personnel. The training program designed to meet these needs has three areas of objectives: materials development, training, and program development. Forty-eight training modules would be used individually in various agencies for evaluating…

Volume 3 of the report of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory training program for RDD&E personnel is devoted to a budget-cost analysis. The introduction outlines the scope of the program and the total man-hours required for the training modules, together with the proposed first-year budget. Other chapters detail the first year…

After tracing the rationale, development, and activities of this project on problem areas in Mexican American education--from initial identification of 26 problem areas, to a review of 19 position papers, to the final delineation of 10 priority areas for research and/or development--this report presents for each of these top-priority areas…

During fiscal year 1970, the states received $1.1 million for research under Section 131(b) of Part C of the Vocational Education Amendment. This amount was sufficient for states to keep their Research Coordinating Units (RCU's) functioning, but provided very little for new research. The main activities of the RCU's were to disseminate results of…

The effects of a federal grant may go far beyond the school system involved. One high school in Maine received $275,000 for a library/media center to see what a well-equipped and stocked, and adequately staffed library/media center would do to improve the quality of the learning opportunities for students. A survey of all Maine school…

Hypothetical educational models for American Indians that would utilize education as a social instrument to reinforce tribal value systems are proposed. Models of programs for preschool through higher education are discussed in terms of administration and faculty, curricula, and methodology. Tribal values are advocated throughout the paper, and to…

The lack of qualified leadership to direct, plan, and do research in agricultural agencies is an important restraint on rural development in countries like Colombia. An increase in the number of students attending institutions for agricultural education has been often viewed as the solution to this problem. It is argued here that an increase in…

This paper finds that most authorities advocate educational models which include all the population and which try to be both diversified in accepting wide cultural differences and inexpensive in achieving results quickly. In many cases these objectives have been found to be incompatible. However, the author feels that new media may now be so…

An instrument to help teacher supervisors in El Salvador to identify and measure good teaching was developed and tested. Because the supervisors were not trained as researchers, they needed an instrument that was simple to use as well as reliable. Several indicators were defined to distinguish between modern and traditional teaching methods, for…

This document presents the third annual summary of the activities of the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education. The summary includes activities related to: (1) Coordination and governance in higher education; (2) coordinating academic plans and programs; (3) educational opportunity programs; (4) planning for educational facilities;…