A unique field trip guide, this brief book interrelates the history of Manhattan with that of the United States as these stories were affected by Black Americans. Obscure and famous landmarks in Manhattan serve as focal points for the narratives on people, places, events, institutions, and organizations from 1624 to the present. Beginning with Old…

Contemporary approaches to research and practice in the administration of organizational change tend to emphasize systematic aspects of the process, focusing on the orderly sequencing of such activities as goal-setting, planning, and execution. This emphasis has given rise to efforts to identify and describe overall strategies of organizational…

The McKinley Project represents a systems approach to reorganizing instruction. The reorganization was based on three conclusions drawn from a comprehensive investigation of research and practices by the Commission on Public Personnel Policies in Ohio. The conclusions were that (1) variance within a grade level on many learning variables is…

Changing conditions and events in Thailand required that a third edition of this area handbook incorporating current data be published. It is a compilation of basic facts written with military and other personnel in mind. An analytical appraisal of social, economic, and political aspects is provided with emphasis on the interaction of these…

This study was made within the art education programme adopted by the Unesco General Conference at its fifteenth session. Its purpose is to provide educational administrators, students, teachers and the general public with information showing what countries are thinking and doing about art education. Twelve member nations were selected to reflect…

The document reproduces the eleven keynote addresses given at a conference on special education. The presentations centered on such topics and issues as accountability, relevance, integration of subsystems, individualized instruction, diagnostic-prescriptive teaching, systems analysis, instructional technology, differentiated staffing, creativity…

Eighteen war/peace curriculum units were selected for secondary students for this resource collection of course descriptions. The objective of the guide is to suggest courses dealing with the overall war/peace issues ranging in scope from the ethnics of war to world peace and from national to international conflicts. Considerable emphasis is…

This report presents a summary of opinions on compulsory education from a variety of sources, discusses literature on the subject, and provides conclusions and recommendations. Based on study findings, the task force members concluded that while compulsory education is currently not a subject for discussion, compulsory attendance is. In addition,…

Material in this learning package is designed to introduce college students to the systematic study of the role of international institutions in interactions among states. Emphasis is upon students: 1) testing various ideas found in the scholarly literature concerning international conflict and its control through international institutions; 2)…

A project to improve the leadership competency of personnel responsible for program development and implementation in ABE is presented. The intent of the program planners was to help the ABE administrator discover new patterns of need, to search for new teaching formats and content, and to reassess the relationships which exist in the world of…

As a land of extreme rural poverty and illiteracy, Bangladesh needs to consciously promote, develop, and support local institutions and participatory leadership, involving local people in the planning, development, and implementation of developmental policies. Begun in 1959, the Comilla experiment constitutes the rationale for institutional…

This study, which grew out of increasing concern over vocational educators' tendency to seldom look at the "gestalt" of State vocational education organizational structure, shows some potential ways of looking at the vocational education system which have here-to-for not been attempted. This study also provides, for those who have not addressed…

Intended for vocational educators--new teachers, teachers returning to the profession, experienced classroom teachers, and cooperative work experience coordinators--this handbook is designed to show what the student can gain from the experience of membership in vocational youth organizations and give guidance to the teacher/advisor in chapter…

The primary data gathering instrument for Project EDNEED (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data) is contained in this second five-volume final report. The instrument consists of a list of questions and associated informational elements grouped into 18 files, and can provide a basis, used as a preliminary source book, for…

The Higher Education Colloquium is composed of individuals who have made significant contributions to American higher education as researchers, college or university administrators, foundation executives, or in other roles. These proceedings include the following: recognition of the efforts and excellence of Ruth E. Eckert; "New Tasks for New…