The Process Analysis of Non-Grading (PANG) project evaluates the planned experiments with non-graded upper grades in communities with few pupils in Sweden. The main objectives is an analysis of the possibilities and difficulties that will appear through the new frame situation concerning realization of achievement goals and social goals. Six…

The rationale for a national investment in early childhood learning, the needs to be met, and the costs are discussed. A number of current program models, diagnostic service centers, programs for parent education, and preparent programs at the secondary and college levels are described. Research studies and findings about different early childhood…

The purpose of this study was to correlate parent-child attitudes toward the fine arts. A respondent group was selected from University faculty families to complete a questionnaire based upon the Eisner Art Attitude Inventory. Five hypotheses were tested: (1) A significant positive correlation exists between parents and their children's attitudes…

The preliminary plan for the proposed National Institute of Education (NIE) is outlined. The author discusses a conflict of interests and pressure between Congress and the educational community which seriously hampered confidence in the Office of Education's R&D program, and suggests that the NIE, to avoid this problem, must establish…

This unit is designed as an overview of the year's course on economics and socio-economic problems. Pupils learn something about economics as a social science and the role of economists in helping people solve economic problems. They examine steps in problem solving and learn to distinguish between questions asking for explanation and prediction…

The study assessed the perceptions of 84 educable mentally retarded (EMR) junior high school students (black and white from lower and middle class socioeconomic status) regarding the nonverbal communicative behaviors of teachers. The C. M. Galloway Categories of Teachers' Nonverbal Behaviors were employed to determine how racial characteristics…

The major purpose of this study was to ascertain whether or not a relationship existed between problem-solving ability and environmental factors. A secondary and related purpose was to find and examine any differences between demographic and curriculum groups. Data were collected from students and from school records in three public high schools…

This document presents the program, papers, and discussions of the first conference exclusively concerned with the American business system and the first one on the future. Approximately 1,500 key business, labor, university, and government leaders met to consider the issues, challenges, and opportunities confronting the American private…

The advanced technology of modern communications has created a condition in which the contradictions of complex social orders, the atrocities of interpersonal, intertribal, and international conflicts, the inequities inherent in practically all of our social systems, as well as the richness of our cultural and technical accomplishments constantly…

Despite all its flaws, the American experiment in pluralism has in many ways been an incredible success. We have been so busy criticizing our failures, so busy comparing ourselves negatively with Sweden and Great Britain that we have not bothered to ask how the United States of America has been able to absorb so much diversity without tearing…

This compilation of readings pertaining to vocational guidance is designed to provide counselors in a number of settings with access to articles that will complement standard information sources. Part 1 explores various approaches to the nature of work, while Part 2 focuses on society's dimensions of work with consequent implications for guidance.…

The literature reviewed here indicates that all environments are occasions for learning and that the open plan approach to school design can best provide for fluid interaction between the child and his physical surroundings. The idea of enhancing a learning process through enhancing the physical environment is not new. What is new, however, is an…

The defined and accepted needs to be met by the public schools give direction to the programs, the services, and the structural organizations that fulfill the needs. Needs -- as defined at the local, State, and federal levels of government by society, by business and industry, and by the individual students -- are inextricably interrelated. The…

This project was launched to discover if the communications gap between technical information about educational issues and lay consumption of the data could be breached. One of these issues, the financing of public education, was selected, and an investigation was launched to ascertain how written communications about educational finance could be…

The papers presented to a working group at the Conference on Social Deprivation and Change in Education, York, England, are comprised of the following: (1) Problems in the inner city (J.D. McConaghy), characterizing the decline of inner areas of cities in Britain as due to failure of management and of government; (2) The school and capitalist…