This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the Mexican Education Minister's remarks at a conference for adult education. He stated that educational reform was part of a far reaching plan for social reform; he characterized civic training as an all-sector task, transcending confinement to the classroom and…

Conceptual frameworks for instructional K-12 programs in conservation and environmental education are provided in this draft curriculum guide. The objective is to help students understand cultural and social as well as physical interaction between man and his environment, interaction that, in fact, makes man interdependent with, and binds him to…

A study of the effectiveness of various support systems of program models in Follow-Through schools examines those characteristics of a support system that strengthen or weaken the program's potential for success. Exploration of the nature of support system variables in a sample of schools is accomplished through group interview techniques for…

Problems of American Indians living in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, are discussed in the series of reports presented in this document. Information gathered by questionnaire forms the basis for the reports on junior high school Indian students, elementary school Indian students, teachers of elementary and junior high school Indian students,…

Cable television offers a great potential for the improvement of present health services. A multipurpose cable communications system, adapted to interorganizational medical uses, could constitute the communications infrastructure needed in the present disorganized state of health care delivery. Such a system of video and data transmission offers…

An attempt was made to gather information about working women and to learn what provisions they made for the care of their preschool age children while they worked. In the pursuit of this information, the following tasks were performed: (1) documentation of where and how children are cared for while their mothers work, (2) finding out what working…

Contents of this book include: "Urban environment in the 1970's," A. Harry Passow; "Educational strategies and the disadvantaged," S.M. Miller and Pamela Roby; "A critique of the concept of 'compensatory education,'" Basil Bernstein; "Early childhood education for the disadvantaged," Helen Robison; "Up from poverty: the price of 'making it' in a…

This volume contains 20 case study profiles of educational RDD&E projects and, as such, constitutes the data base for the Oregon Studies. This part (Part 3) OF Volume IV contains profiles of five diffusion projects along with information that describes the development of the profiles, explains how to read the profiles, and includes a glossary of…

Based on their geographical location and the relative size of their camp operation, 20 resident camps were asked to conduct 30 telephone interviews in their local community with parents of children who: still attended the camp, had previously attended the camp but did not return for the summer of 1973, or had never attended the camp. Responses…

This learning package is a three-semester-hour, independent-study course in community health services designed for postsecondary, external degree students. Keyed to the commercially published textbook "Community Health" (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1970), the package contains a course administrator manual, a student unit study guide, and…

The Youth Advocacy Projects of the Teacher Corps are those that deal with the educational needs and ways of responding to the needs of criminal offenders. The program involves two-year programs for teacher training and utilization. The number and scope of these projects, originally called Corrections Projects, is outlined and illustrated. The six…

Public elementary and secondary schools in Illinois that have remained stably racially mixed over time are identified in this study. The neighborhood characteristics, pupil assignment policies, instructional programs, and other circumstances that have contributed to that stability are also determined. Several alternative definitions of…

Using the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education program classification structure, this document reports fiscal year 1975-76 financial data for Connecticut's regional community colleges. Four major sections comprise this report: (1) Part A--general fund statements, including summaries of general fund expenditures by function, unit costs…

These documents contain narrative analyses and tables of data pertaining to student enrollment and enrollment trends in Illinois public community colleges for fall 1975, spring 1976, and fall 1976. Data presented in tabular form include: comparison and trends in enrollment data from 1965 through 1975, enrollment data for fall 1975 relating to…

This document describes a model for predicting the success of recent high school graduates in Florida community college business courses. In the development of the model, test scores from the Florida Twelfth Grade Test and grades earned during the senior year by high school graduates from eleven high schools in Brevard County entering their first…