The major purpose of the Commission and its panels is to work to improve geographic programs at the college level; it is supported by the National Science Foundation. Specific objectives are: 1) to develop approaches to integrate geographic programs within the broader higher education context including interdisciplinary design; 2) develop and…

This document contains position papers presented at a 3-day conference dealing with the implications of career education for minority groups. Texts of these papers are included: (1) "Career Education Improves the Self Concept" by D.R. Baylor, (2) "Career Education and Black Americans" by W.F. Brazziel, (3) "Career Education: Expanded Options for…

Four-wave, five-year longitudinal panel data are used to assess selected antecedents and consequences of participation in student activities. Path analysis reveals that the "early" or freshman year educational expectations of high school students are a critical determinant of participation. Measured intelligence is also a determinant of senior…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a description of the UAR Ministry of Education's efforts during 1970 to implement national education policy. All children of compulsory age were admitted to elementary school. This required the construction of new facilities in rural areas to combat absenteeism and…

This report, prepared for the President's Advisory Council for Education Professions Development, describes the special characteristics of the community junior college, its students, and its staff. Major current efforts in preservice and in-service program planning and recommended programs designed to meet the various needs of staff are outlined.…

The Zuni comprehensive development plan encompasses a variety of projects designed to achieve major development goals on the Zuni Indian reservation in New Mexico. The single overall planning objective is to raise the level of living for residents of the Zuni reservation to equal or to exceed the average for all United States citizens. Major…

Abstracts and bibliographic information for 100 items are presented in this edition. All but a few of the abstracted publications were published between May and September, 1969. Items include brief and extensive newspaper articles, journal articles, and government reports arranged under these headings: General, Primary Education, Secondary…

This essay seeks to emphasize the relationship in Kenya between primary education and politics, in the context of local control through elected County Councils over primary education. It looks at the costs of primary education, including political and social costs, in terms of their effects on local government and on the relationship between local…

Volume II is a compendium of the major existing literature that (1) describes the activities performed in educational RDD&E; and (2) presents the frameworks or models that have been used to define, describe, differentiate, and relate educational RDD&E. The volume serves as a basic literature source for the design and implementation of new training…

Including 120 citations, this selected bibliography on rural education covers the period between 1967 and 1975 and presents entries representative of the developing nations. Major subject areas are: women, rural youth, integrated rural development, adult education, nonformal education, employment, educational planning and development, mass…

Based on a 65-day educational program in India designed to provide an Indian international perspective for 22 adult educators in the New England region and the addition of this dimension to their Adult Education programs at home, these papers written by the participants indicate their reactions to their Indian experience. They are intended for…

Underachieving ninth grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds were tutored by college students from similar backgrounds. Questionnaires were then completed by the tutees, tutors, school staff and the parents of tutees. For over half the tutees, an improvement in grades was reported. Changes in educational motivation, attitudes toward…

With particular attention to vocational research and development, this study reviewed the literature to obtain information on the factors or influences causing teachers to change practices. Research and development in vocational education was treated as an independent variable in an experimental research design with moderating variables of product…

This study, after introducing Ghana's history and people, traces the story of educational development since 1951 and describes the present formal educational system. The subject is divided into four categories of consideration. First, the development of education over the years from colonial times through the modern system that has evolved is…

Tanzania inherited a basically illiterate population that is largely rural. Hence, Tanzania is according top priority to rural development. Education is a vital input but its impact depends not only on the quality and relevance of the education given but also on its interaction with complementary inputs in agriculture, small-scale industry,…