The New York State Outdoor Education Association is dedicated to: (1) the professional improvement of persons interested and involved in outdoor education, and (2) the development of attitudes, values, and behavior necessary for the wise use of natural resources. Its major goal is the enrichment of educational curriculums through the use of the…

Presenting its past, present, and future expectations, the Navajo Junior College anc the forthcoming Navajo Culture Center are described in detail in this publication. College information relative to the following is presented: (1) History and Origin; (2) Philosophy; (3) Objectives; (4) Purpose of the Navajo College (to serve the Navajo…

Written to discuss questions often raised about common (public) schooling in the United States, this book examines issues surrounding the founding of the Department of Education, encompassing a period from the 1830s to the present and focusing on the 1860s. At that time, the common school movement promised that education would be a means for…

Focusing on Rumania, this paper studies the relationship between the values system of the technological era and the implications for education. With increasing industralization and technological development, many societies have emerged as highly utilitarian in which all values are subordinated to acquisitive behavior, materialism, and individual…

Two related objectives in this report are: (1) to discover psychometrically a structure underlying secondary school social studies teachers' responses to those items in an instrument which pertained to what the "new" social studies ought to be emphasizing, and (2) to contribute to the development of scales measuring the domain of such ought-to-be…

I am an American Indian, and I believe education to be something totally different from what the white man believes it to be, for he sees education as factories, roads, space travel, degrees, high salaries, and a means to be a good life. I cannot separate the white man's education from the political/military strategies practiced against my race…

The policies and procedures of the college are presented in this 1974 edition of the handbook for the benefit of new faculty members and to serve as a reference manual on current practices for all faculty and staff members. The manual details the college's nature and purpose, faculty relations, faculty benefits and services, the academic program,…

Collected in the document are eight presentations which were made before a national invitational conference of Chief State School officers at Pinehurst, North Carolina, in April, 1974, taken directly from tapes of the conference. In his introduction, "The Quest for Unity and Understanding," John K. Coster enumerates conference goals: (1)…

A brief chronology of the most significant events leading to the formation of NCAIR is presented, followed by a report of the conference itself. Topics covered include problems of institutional research in the seventies, the role of college administrators, statewide planning, education legislation and finance, enrollment growth, and job…

This program guide, designed to be used in prekindergarten programs, was developed by the Jefferson County Public Schools in Lakewood, Colorado. The guide is organized into three major sections. The first section presents the philosophy of early childhood education on which the guide is based, a summary of the characteristics of young children at…

Interviews with several individuals representing a variety of viewpoints about the recent controversy regarding textbooks and philosophy in the Kanawha County, West Virginia, public schools are presented in this transcript of a National Public Radio program broadcast in December 1974. Beginning with a discussion of the issue of textbook selection…

Presented are reprints of 37 articles on mainstreaming handicapped children (published between 1968 and 1974 in "Exceptional Children"). The collected articles are arranged within four broad categories: the general rationale for mainstreaming, other philosophical considerations, types of mainstreaming models, and teacher training and…

The textbook provides a philosophical basis and offers practical suggestions for formulating behavioral objectives for students in grades 1-12 in the following subjects: English and literature, social science, mathematics, science, reading, art and music, and health. Definitions, uses, sources, and types of education objectives are discussed. The…

This book is based on the premise that each person, in his organizational and institutional roles, is embraced by a network of policy decisions that influence his behavior. From an examination of the importance of policy studies, the author moves to an exploration of the nature of policy and distinguishes the similarities and differences between…

Five papers comprise this book of symposium proceedings. Philip Smith, in "Objectives for American Education," theorizes that the U.S. can afford a sophisticated, dedicated profession to run the schools, and that educational leaders must become dedicated or other leaders will replace them. Francis Chase, in "The Status of Educational Planning in…