This paper discusses the influence of class size and school personnel on the development and implementation of the curriculum of 10 inner city schools in Montreal, Quebec. Information is based on interview data, personnel records, and responses to a questionnaire. Results indicate that while teacher-pupil ratios in inner city schools are slightly…

This guide is essentially designed as a teaching aid for those who would inform planners, officials of educational ministries, school administrators, principals, and teachers about educational outcome measurements. In outline and graphic form, the guide presents topics for discussion in a seminar dealing with how to obtain information on…

This research is based on two types of analyses. A cultural analysis focuses on the Hawaiian-American family and socialization system and is used to generate and interpret interface analysis findings. The second type of analysis concerns Hawaiian-American behavior in public school classrooms. The goal of the combined analyses is to specify points…

This update of a 1972 publication mentions approximately 60 court cases. Issues covered are: (1) obligation of divorced parents to pay college expenses; (2) admission as a student; (3) discrimination on grounds of race or sex; (4) exclusion for academic reasons; (5) mandatory activity fees charged to students; (6) differential tuition fees charged…

For use with junior and senior high school students, this book presents more than 250 drawings and pictures, with an introduction and brief texts in English and Spanish, depicting 450 years of Chicano history. The book covers: Mexico before the Spanish Conquests, Spain's colonization of the Southwest, the United States war on Mexico, events in the…

This paper suggests that the current crisis in Black Studies is due to its failure to achieve full legitimacy as a unique academic area of concern. The paper further contends that the lack of an external and internal legitimacy is due to the lack of an objectively identifiable unique methodology to undergrid Black Studies. Section I addresses the…

This evaluation provides a project description, principal objectives, a listing of activities and services, and aspects of communication of eight nonpublic school centers providing supplemental instruction in corrective reading, language, and mathematics to students deficient in these areas because of economic, linguistic, or environmental…

The state agency represents the interface between the statewide education system and the governmental and external bodies that would influence it. About 55 state agency staff members from all over the east coast attended an inservice workshop that attempted to measure some of the new dimensions of postsecondary education and to equip participants…

An assessment of future requirements for Illinois higher education operations and grants leads to the identification of some significant trends and problems. These include: (1) trends in enrollment and in financing higher education in Illinois for the period fiscal years 1966 to 1976; (2) projections of resource requirements for Illinois higher…

This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. This activity is a report or case study which looks at the implications, problems, and reactions to a regional comprehensive plan to regulate growth patterns in a 15,000 square-mile area of Toronto,…

This coordinator's handbook is designed to give necessary information and guidance to the person responsible for coordinating a training course based on one or more units in the Determining Instructional Purposes training package. Although the role of the coordinator resembles the traditional roles of instructor or consultant, it is not identical…

Project activities involved: (1) examination of exploratory measures of social incompetency of junior high school adolescents, (2) development and trial of educational units designed in response to problems in black urban schools, and (3) a compilation and review of cross-sectional Test of Social Inference (TSI) data. Extensive test data was…

This annual report describes the work of the Teaching Methods and Materials Centre of the University of Papua and New Guinea. The five main objectives of the Centre are information services, consultant services, coordination of resources, teacher education and in-service training, and research. Details are provided on the development, progress,…

These newsletters are a regular feature of the edition of the Progress Report sent to teachers, and further, supplement the World Law Fund's catalog of publications. Issues provide teachers with professional information on materials and techniques for teaching about world order. Typical inclusions present sample lesson plans and unit descriptions,…

Information on various aspects of education in the Maghreb countries is provided in this annotated bibliography which is part of an educational series. One hundred entries consisting primarily of works from newspaper and government documents and a few periodicals, published in those countries during 1971 and a few in 1972, comprise this work.…