This article features the educators who received top honors at the ACTE Convention in Kansas City last December. The educators who received top honors share a dedication to career and technical education and to their professional organizations. Among others, Kevin English, who currently serves as the industrial education department chair at Peoria…

The universities of Oxford and Cambridge had developed different attitudes towards the award of honorary degrees through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Recently, both have adopted a similar cautious and apolitical stance. This essay describes the role of honorary degrees in the production and reproduction of their cultural…

This study examined the extent that a scholarship program operating in Sierra Leone and Djibouti was successful in increasing girls' persistence in basic education. Results of field studies indicated that scholarships could be appropriately targeted and delivered in ways that appear to minimize misappropriation of funds. However, the scholarships…

This Yearbook begins with the article representing Ellen Jampole's presentation to the CRA membership. In her presidential address, Ellen had the audience alternately laughing, considering, and reminiscing about how she and other academics understand and develop the knowledge they carry. She shares these same themes in her narrative, "Traditions,…

Unique facilities integrate deaf students with hearing students. (Author)

The Total Energy Management (TEM) for Minnesota Schools program is a unified, planned approach to reducing the energy use and costs of an individual school or school district. The program is designed to increase energy awareness and improve school energy efficiency through: (1) careful energy accounting; (2) changes in operations and maintenance…

Innovations in the facilities of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf are described by the communications facilities consultant. (Author/MLF)

Contests and awards, an integral part of the FFA program, are discussed in terms of the need for guiding principles. Good teaching and motivational techniques can have a positive influence on vocational agriculture students and result in excellent performances and student learning. (Author/JB)

Revisions in standards for Oregon's public elementary and secondary schools have led to changes in state requirements governing high school graduation requirements. This manual suggests guidelines for school districts to follow in granting diplomas or alternative awards. It discusses the meaning of a diploma under Oregon law, school districts'…

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is presented annually to the United States publisher of an outstanding translated children's book. Translation is a difficult art that requires the translator to convey the spirit as well as the letter of the original work, represent another culture, and remain inconspicuous in the work. An analysis of the 42 books…

This collection of nine essays includes three from each of the contributing groups--elementary school, middle school, and high school students. Titles include "Libraries for the People and by the People,""How the Library Helps Us,""Improvements Since the Library Company of Philadelphia," and "Today's Library--A Place for All Seasons." (JAB)

Evaluative annotations of recent additions to the National Library of Canada's selection of notable Canadian children's literature are presented in two separate supplements, one English, the other French, with translations of the principal text in each version to the language of the other. The English supplement adds seven titles for 1976 and 13…

The children's books listed and annotated in this book were selected by Canadian children's librarians; they represent the most informative and relevant books in print for children, providing knowledge and understanding of the Canadian environment and cultural milieu. Each entry indicates bibliographic information and availability.…

One of the ten buildings chosen to receive 1976 AIA honor awards, is a complex consisting of a dormitory for 800 students, a dining facility that serves 400 at a time, and student activity rooms. (Author/MLF)

Examines the criteria used in selecting winners for the Radio Television News Director's Association (RTNDA) awards. (Author/GW)