To aid in controlling the cost of acquisitions in a research library, techniques were developed for the rational selection of serial titles for cancellation. The context for the proposed methodology was a network or multicampus environment rather than an individual library, and it was tested with a specific body of health sciences serial titles in…

This collection of papers briefly describes a curriculum for an early childhood education program based on parent participation and community involvement, and offers guidelines for school volunteers. The early childhood program described calls for: (1) parents and volunteers to be involved in the planning, implementing, modifying and evaluating of…

An annotated bibliography which presents approximately 300 references from 1951 to 1973 on the education of severely/profoundly handicapped persons. Citations are grouped alphabetically by author's name within the following categories: characteristics and treatment, gross motor development, sensory and motor development, physical therapy for the…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year project in which an instructional program model was developed and implemented with 103 educable mentally retarded and learning disabled children (6-to 10-years old) in three Mississippi schools. General objectives of the project are said to include development of an experimental special education model…

This report examines the impact of the Saturday School (a school and home learning program for 4-year-olds in a large suburban school district) on the following four groups: (1) students with learning disabilities, (2) students identified as either "mentally retarded" or of "low intellectual functioning", (3) students with…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this document presents the findings of the study team from the University of Colorado who spent a month at the Shonto Boarding School in 1969. Additional information was collected during brief visits and during a 1-week stay by the team leader who was at the…

Topics covered in these essays on testing in high school English are (1) the need for major literature tests to determine not factual recall but whether students are growing into rational and humane persons through their experiences with English; (2) the usefulness of pre-tests and re-tests, and the need to emphasize tests as a means of…

The Milwaukee Bilingual Program was initiated in September, 1969 and funded under ESEA Titles VII and I and under Milwaukee Public Schools' Local Funds to develop a curriculum taught in both Spanish and English in order to prevent the hindering of learning and lowering of self-esteem often experienced by newly arrived or recently arrived pupils of…

There are seven major sets of differences between young children of different economic backgrounds. The middle class child, compared to the lower class child, generally exhibits: (1) better language comprehension and expression, (2) richer schema development, involving mental preparation for the unusual, (3) stronger attachment to the mother,…

This study was concerned with an investigation and analysis of curricular and administrative change within specific categorically funded language arts programs and was directed toward the discovery and examination of the current status of curriculum development as related to the improvement of instruction and equilization of educational…

This book offers inner-city language arts teachers suggestions to make the teaching-learning act more significant and rewarding. The compilation of innovative activities and ideas is divided into six chapters dealing with (1) the improvement of students' self-image, (2) children's literature, (3) written expression, (4) poetry, (5) oral language…

This document presents a series of lectures on various aspects of the language problems of inner-city children delivered during the second semester of the 1969-70 academic year at the Department of Urban and Overseas English Programs of the School of Education of Indiana University. The papers are: Roger W. Shuy, "Sociolinguistic Strategies for…

Information on the educational status of the disadvantaged child and a summary of progress in teaching him to read are presented. A description of a typical inner-city elementary school in New York City includes the school buildings, student population, reading programs, attendance of teachers and children, teacher education, achievement, and…

A type of problem-solving communication was defined in which communication accuracy was expected to be facilitated by common factors. Three tasks were developed which represented this class of communications and permitted the assessment of communication accuracy. Dyads (48) of grade 5 students--six of boys and six of girls from four population…

This collection of conference papers by various authors covers the following aspects of individualized curriculum and instruction: (1) research trends, (2) applicability to specific subject areas, and (3) implications for teacher education. (LLR)