The annual report of the New York Interdepartmental Committee on Indian Affairs which serves 8 Indian reservations within the state of New York documents the 1972-73 services of its various departments and presents the Chairman's report. The Department of Commerce reports that its new Minority Business Office is aggressively seeking Indian…

This report contains a collection of papers selected from those presented at the conference. Topics covered include: human relations in the interactions of ethnic groups, crowd control at athletic events, trends in health education on drugs, sex education and family life, administrative structure, year-round schools, physical education programs,…

In this selected bibliography many but not all the materials included have been annotated. The table of contents is organized both topically (general social and economic development, foreign aid and general technical assistance, agriculture and development, education and development) and geographically (Africa, Asia, India, Middle East, Latin…

This report of a conference, held under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Languages of the University of Bridgeport, is concerned primarily with improved foreign language teaching and flexible scheduling practices. In the first part of the report, the text of a speech suggests that fundamental changes in curriculum content revision,…

Recent developments in Britain show an increased recognition of the value of students of many disciplines of practical skills in foreign languages. In a number of universities language centers have been established to provide "service courses" in foreign languages and in non-university institutions degree courses have been established in…

This annual report describes the results of the second year (academic year 1967-68) of research work done in the Child Development Research and Evaluation Center for Head Start at Temple University. Part One of this report discusses the Center's National Data Program and sets out in tabular form demographic and cognitive data obtained on 86 urban…

The following articles on mental retardation are provided: translating research findings into classroom activity; camping programs; a measurement device for educable mentally retarded adolescents on their self-concept as a worker; an investigation of the Doman-Delacato Theory in a trainable program in the public schools; and problems of sex…

This handbook serves as an introduction to the research literature in the various fields of education, citing those titles considered to be most useful to the graduate student or advanced undergraduate making his first acquaintance with educational research. The first part, Educational Research--General, cites and annotates those tools with which…

Papers related to the work of the Bloomington Conference (April, 1968) for foreign language education improvement and standardization, particularly in teacher training programs, are presented in this special publication. A major effort is made at establishing the idea that good foreign language programs require cooperation between the subject…

This document contains abstracts of approximately 300 papers presented at the 1967 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. A sampling of the varied subjects covered includes: dynamics of the school board role, concept learning, programed instruction, administrative behavior and organizational characteristics, correlates of…

This project of the Indiana Language Program (ILP) directs its efforts to teacher education and instructional methodology in foreign languages. Five stages involved in the ILP foreign language work focus on: (1) identification of practices in foreign language methods in colleges and universities, (2) establishment of dialogue among methods…

One of the implicit assumptions of the East-West Center is that Asian, Pacific, and United States grantees will learn about the nature of people who have a multicultural orientation. One aspect of such people is the nature of issues faced when the move from their "home" culture to another and back. The Center offers a seminar to train…

A comprehensive report on the 82 Office of Education programs is provided in this evaluation of the programs for fiscal year 1972. The status of the evaluation function itself is briefly discussed; a general overview is made of the effectiveness of the Office of Education programs; the highlights of new findings from recent evaluation studies are…

Field trials of the Lincoln Training System (LTS-3) at Keesler Air Force Base were completed. Fifteen lessons on the material covered in the fifth week of an electronics course were prepared and used. Students using the LTS-3 materials learned slightly better than pupils who received conventional instruction, lower aptitude students performed…

Papers compiled in this publication focus on creativity and foreign language instruction, the "less-able" student, and curricular innovation. Representatives papers include: "Is Creativity in the Eye of the Beholder?,""How to Increase Latin Enrollments,""Mini-Courses,""Focus on Bilingual Education and TESOL,""Instructional Techniques for the…