This monograph on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models for practitioners who are implementing or redesigning public service employment programs explores three major approaches to public service employment: countercyclical, employability development, and structural targeting. The content is presented in six sections. The…

The Pre-Retirement Rehearsal Project sought to motivate, educate, and guide persons forty-five years of age and older (especially those with limited academic skills) in successful retirement planning. Community awareness of the need for planning was achieved through the opening of a pre-retirement center, design of three brochures, construction…

Elderly women may suffer from economic problems, isolation, loneliness, poor housing, poor health care, and few viable alternatives to institutionalization. Although the total number of aged poor has declined by over 40% in the past 20 years, the number of aged women living alone and poor stayed almost unchanged. The separation and divorce rates…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit is to encourage the participant to view management as an art rather than as a science. The art of management includes consideration of managerial styles; organizational climate, which, in turn, includes consideration of motivation, communication, the environment, and structure within the organization;…

This handbook was designed to assist vocational personnel in assessing professional development needs and developing an individual growth plan. It contains five sections: (1) An Overview of Staff Development, (2) What is a Need?, (3) Assessing Needs: Alternative Methods, (4) Planning and Evaluation Activities, and (5) Facilitation Suggestions.…

The booklet contains the text of eight selected documents on human rights. The documents are Excerpts from the UN Charter; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political…

A group of activiites for responding to individual learner needs designed by seven teachers of Spanish, French, and Latin, are presented as practical application exercises to meet identified learner problems in their classrooms. The source of learner problems was identified and correlated to specific learning tasks according to the original model…

The setting of priorities among educational objectives is just as critical, and at least as difficult, as the selection of objectives. Information that is commonly used to make decisions about priorities involves: the needs of persons who will benefit from the school program; the resources available; and the knowledge of what payoffs are likely…

MANY FACTORS ARE RELATED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OPTIMUM SIZE FOR SCHOOL ORGANIZATION. BEFORE A STATE CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION OF SIZE, IT SHOULD PERHAPS FIRST ANSWER THE QUESTIONS--WHAT DO WE WANT THE STATE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO ACCOMPLISH, AND WHAT ARE THE STRUCTURAL ALTERNATIVES THAT WILL BE BEST FOR OUR STATE. WHEN THESE ARE ANSWERED, SIZE THEN…

The Klein School and the concept of education that it represents is presented. The concept grew out of the desire that the teaching-learning environment (curriculum, people, and buildings) should meet the needs of individual children. In providing for the individual differences of both teachers and students at Klein, the rigidity of time…

The statements and notations in this report have been abstracted from 12 interdisciplinary conferences conducted on subjects related to social and environmental variables as determinants of mental health plus one conference on recreation. This summary reflects the essence of statements that may have a direct or indirect bearing on considerations…

Humanistic education, basing much of its theory on data provided by subjective experiences, is an attempt to create new perceptual systems for understanding human beings and to make these processes available in educational settings. Humanistic education is surveyed, with the view that its component branches are organized bodies of knowledge, each…

The report by the President's Committee on Mental Retardation mentions the accomplishments of the last decade, including the beginning of national networks for diagnosis, a plan for services in each state, and advances in public awareness of all facets of mental retardation. The following programs are considered necessary: services must be brought…

Intended for beginning students concerned with reading instruction as well as for graduate students, reading teachers, or remedial specialists, the text deals with the overall classroom program, methods for evaluating and diagnosing group and individual needs, and developmental and remedial teaching of specific skills. Chapters explore the…

The author reports on a program designed to improve the skills of staff members in recognizing, and adapting instructions to, the varied learning styles, abilities, and affective needs of pupils in an ethnically unbalanced "pocket of poverty" elementary school. The staff included paraprofessionals and teachers of reading, mathematics,…