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Kershner, Keith M.; Blair, Mark W. – 1975
Experienced-Based Career Education (EBCE) is an approach to the problems of youth in relation to career awareness and preparation. EBCE is based on the rationale that exposure to work environments reinforces the acquisition of academic skills and is more effective than traditional classroom approaches. Research for Better Schools, Inc. has…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Guidance
Pacific Oaks Coll. and Children's School, Pasadena, CA. – 1972
The second year of the Community Family Day Care Project, begun in August 1970, to test the belief that group day care is the best way to provide care for children of working parents is discussed. The tasks for the second year were to demonstrate the feasibility of improving quality, stability, continuity, and flexibility in an existing network of…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Certification, Change Agents, Child Caregivers
Miller, Donald M.; And Others – 1967
This report describes 3 years of research on identifying, categorizing, and comparing teachers' ideas about teaching. The study used two different groups of 32 Wisconsin elementary school teachers selected according to a stratified random sampling procedure. The first group of teachers participated in a taped 2-hour interview on their ideas about…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Discovery Learning, Educational Testing
Goolsby, Thomas M., Jr.; Frary, Robert B. – 1969
Two hundred first grade children participated in an experimental program involving innovative curricula and instructional techniques. A pretest-posttest method of instruction, employing sequenced and structured learning activities, enabled each child to progress at an individual rate and was supplemented by a readiness program. Evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Demonstration Programs, Desegregation Effects
Begab, Michael J. – 1968
To determine the effects of educational experiences on the knowledge of and attitudes toward mental retardation, 279 newly admitted graduate students and 288 graduating students in seven schools of social work completed a personal data sheet, semantic differential rating scales, a knowledge inventory, and a client preference rank order scale.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Educational Experience, Exceptional Child Research
Mussman, M.C. – 1968
Intended to provide administrators with information valuable in planning school involvement with the emotionally disturbed the text presents suggestions to a variety of questions on this subject. Questions on the nature and importance of the problem focus on emotional disorder, its relationship to behavior and achievement, and incidence, while…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Community Responsibility, Educational Needs, Emotional Adjustment
United Cerebral Palsy Association, New York, NY. – 1969
The proceedings include seven selected papers. In one, Brewster S. Miller reports on the 1968 activities of the Medical and Scientific Department of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations. In another, James J. Gallagher anticipates the next 20 years in special education for the handicapped. Also considered are the following topics: new directions…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Cerebral Palsy, Clinical Diagnosis, Down Syndrome
Graubard, Paul S., Ed. – 1969
Intended for college students and for teachers working with children who have not succeeded in school, the text presents research findings, brings concrete skills to the practioner, and attempts to clarify approaches to the problems of the field. The chapters, by different authors, discuss the following topics: ecological management of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Cognitive Development, Delinquency
Rainer, John D., Ed.; Altshuler, Kenneth Z., Ed. – 1968
A compilation of presentations from a meeting on psychiatry and the deaf, the text includes the following discussions: background and history of the New York State mental health program for the deaf; an introduction to the program of the New York School for the Deaf; school psychiatric preventive programs; adjustment problems presented by a panel…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Counseling
Center for Urban Education, New York, NY. Program Reference Service. – 1969
This fact sheet bulletin describes the Urban Day School (UDS) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school contains grades pre-kindergarten through 8, and its student body is drawn from lower income caucasian, Negro and Puerto Rican families. The UDS is a private school, without church affiliation, although it is staffed in part by Dominican Sisters. It…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classes (Groups of Students), Counseling, Cultural Enrichment
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1969
Conference papers on early childhood education cover the following topics: individual variation among preschoolers in a cognitive intervention program in low income families presented by Phyllis Levenstein, programmatic research on disadvantaged youth and an ameliorative intervention program by Merle B. Karnes and others, special education and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Conference Reports, Day Care
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1969
Thirteen papers on early childhood education are presented on the following topics: stimulation and cognitive development of infants and younger children, curriculum development for young handicapped children, a rationale for sequencing instructional activities for preschool handicapped children, observation of educational activities and…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cleft Palate, Conference Reports
Wyatt, Gertrud L. – 1969
To describe language development, two longitudinal case studies and a model for studying the patterns of interaction between children and adults are provided. Three groups of children exhibiting developmental speech and language disorders are then presented. First, stuttering children are discussed, with attention given to theory and experimental…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Case Studies, Child Language, Clinical Diagnosis
Campbell, Roald F. – 1969
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were the period of rapid urban development fostered by industrialization. This was also the period of system-wide development of city school districts funded by favorable tax bases from industrial property and from a complete cross-section of social strata. The first consolidation of districts began within…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Trends
Leonard, George E. – 1973
The pilot program was designed to aid inner-city Detroit public school students to raise and broaden their educational/occupational aspiration levels and plan for their future. The project served 15,000 students from seven elementary schools, two junior high schools, and one high school; control schools were selected to match the experimental…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Education
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