This publication reports the proceedings of the Invitational Conference on Ethnic Modification of the Curriculum--later revised by the participants to be known as the Invitational Convention on Curriculum Modifications for Ethnic Emphases--convened in St. Louis, Missouri on November 20, 1969. The purpose of the invitational conference was to call…

The heart of this conference report is a series of papers and summaries of discussion on the following topics: (1) analysis of requirements for specific foreign language courses, (2) difficulties in language instruction research, (3) the establishment of language centers in all colleges and universities, (4) principles for the structure and…

The first section of this two-part report issued by the Minister of Public Education for the Saarland presents brief summaries of recent policy and programs--as well as plans for development--for all educational levels, kindergarten through college, academic and vocational. Reviews are also included of current activities in sports, school…

An annual report (1970-71) of New Mexico's State Department of Education, Division of Indian Education, this document presents data pertaining to the 20 schools receiving Johnson-O'Malley benefits. Observations from the Director of Indian Education indicate that kindergarten units were expanded to 41 units in 12 districts; that 10 Indian…

The major theme of Report Card 1 is enrollment projections. Reports in this section include: Barwick and Stafford's "Statewide Enrollment Projections for North Carolina, 1975-80"; Reiman's "Assumption-Based Model for Developing Institutional Enrollment Projections"; Rajasekhara's "Enrollment Projection," dealing with…

The National Conference on Moral/Citizenship Education (MCE) was the major activity of Planning for Moral/Citizenship Education, a year-long national planning effort. The primary purpose of the conference was to develop MCE recommendations from as wide a base as possible concerning research, development, and dissemination, with the ultimate goal…

Included in this report on the Southern Rural Health Conference (held in Nashville, Tennessee in 1976) are: (1) an introduction (details the conference goals); (2) a program agenda; (3) "Summation: Southern Rural Health Conference" (a speech); (4) "Health Care and Rural Development" (a speech); (5) "Innovative Approaches…

Presented is a quarterly progress report of Project MORE (Mediated Operational Research for Education), a research project developing multimedia instructional programs aimed at specific behavioral deficits among handicapped children, with emphasis on self-care skills for the mentally retarded and articulation therapy in public schools. Major…

Presented is a quarterly progress report of Project MORE (Mediated Operational Research for Education), a research project developing multimedia instructional programs aimed at specific behavioral deficits among handicapped children, with emphasis on self-care skills for the mentally retarded and articulation therapy in public schools. Major…

This report sets forth the Office of Education's activities for 1975. The first two chapters contain the mandated assessment of the condition of education in the nation and a brief statement of basic program objectives. The next four chapters describe programs administered by the Office of Education that (1) serve students with special needs; (2)…

Covering the 1976 fiscal year and the one-time transition quarter of July 1, 1976 through September 30, 1976, this annual report on the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) presents narrative and tabular data re: (1) A Year of Strengthening the Partnership (highlights on the Federal, state, and local partnership which constitutes ARC); (2) Growth…

This yearbook contains addresses and discussion group reports from the fifth annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Part 1 includes addresses which consider: definitions of reading, psychological explanations of reading, the sociology of reading, recent research in college reading, reading and semantics,…

The 1976 Annual Report to the President and the Congress of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children (NACEDC) focused its attention on early childhood education, studying alternatives in terms of cost effectiveness, program effectiveness, consolidation and a delivery mechanism designed to meet the needs of the…

Divided into two major sections--Theory and Research and the Teaching/Learning Process--this pathfinder to the literature on bilingual education lists bibliographies, research reports and sources, reference sources, discussions of issues, teaching guides and textbooks, instructional resources, evaluations, catalogs, guidebooks, serials and…

Describes five studies which investigate the effectiveness of computer use: (1) cost effectiveness in elementary school mathematics; (2) evaluation of computer use in a college chemistry course; (3) evaluating science software; (4) computer-videotape instruction in junior-secondary level mathematics; and (5) comparing microcomputers and flash card…