Identification, coordination, and development of community resources for career education projects are discussed in this guidebook. Topics discussed include the following: (1) the role of the community resource coordinator; (2) community resources (available people, materials, and services that are useful and valuable for educational purposes);…

The Southwest Regional Center for Community Education Development conducted a series of workshops to identify and field test competencies deemed essential for the superintendent, district coordinator, principal, and building-level director of community education. These workshops generated a data bank of validated competency statements and related…

This monograph discusses how to bring about changes and reforms in the area of human services. The introduction defines human services and briefly discusses some reform movements and whether or not viable change methods are available. Section I discusses the roles of various change participants including the change agent, lobbyist, ombudsman,…

PRIOR TO 1965, A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF OHIO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF THOSE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS LIVING WITHIN ITS OWN BOUNDARIES. NEW LEGISLATION THAT YEAR LEGALIZED THE SPENDING OF TAX MONIES FOR TRANSPORTING PUPILS ATTENDING NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND SERVED AS A MANDATE FOR ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, REQUIRING THE…

A SUMMER PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PROVIDE COMPENSATORY AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES IS PRESENTED. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CHILDREN, PARENTS, AND STAFF ARE PLANNED TO--(1) OFFER ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE AS NEEDED, EMPHASIZING LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS, (2) STIMULATE IMAGINATION AND DEVELOP LEARNING THROUGH DIRECT EXPERIENCE, (3) PROVIDE EXPERIENCES SIMILAR TO…

This directory contains a compilation of contact persons for a number of state and federal agencies for dissemination of educational information. The lists include contact persons from all fifty states, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. Most addresses include phone numbers. The agencies are as follow: (1) National…

Based on the educational philosophy of "anybody can teach, anybody can learn", a free university offers ungraded, unaccredited classes to the general public, without charge, on any topic such as societal issues, arts and crafts, intellectual subjects, and practical skills. To plan a program, only a borrowed phone and office, human…

THE COORDINATORS WERE GIVEN AN OVERVIEW OF THE ENTIRE ES '70 PROJECT AND ORGANIC CURRICULUM AT THE ES '70 COORDINATOR'S WORKSHOP, AUGUST 1967. SPECIAL EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON THE ROLE OF THE COORDINATOR IN CARRYING OUT THE PROGRAM IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. A NETWORK CONFERENCE HELD SEPTEMBER 1967, OF 51 PARTICIPATING SCHOOL PERSONNEL, USOE AND E.F.…

The aim of an audiovisual program in a school is to facilitate learning by improving instruction. The Guide is planned for the teacher or administrator who is concerned with the task of organizing and administering the audiovisual program at the elementary through high school levels. Principally, it explains how an audiovisual club or any pupil…

This report contains tabulations of responses to a questionnaire sent to the persons in each state education agency responsible for coordinating the programs of Special Needs in Vocational Education. Each respondent was asked to identify one program serving Special Needs in his state. The questionnaire also asked whether the state had held a…

New York City's three ESEA Title I, secondary level, remedial reading programs have evolved into an individualized, diagnostic-prescriptive, skill-centered approach to teaching reading, with centralized administration and supervision. They now involve 31,275 students, 417 full-time teachers of reading, and 310 reading paraprofessionals in 82 New…

To determine what educational background is needed by practitioners, a survey was conducted of audiovisual personnel in Indiana schools with enrollments of 1,000 to 2,000. A questionnaire was mailed to 104 schools and respondents asked to describe their responsibility for audiovisual equipment and software, budgetary duties, and production of…

This study involved all distributive education state supervisory and teacher education personnel in the United States, 48 distributive education teacher coordinators, and 400 distributive workers at the entry, supervisory, and management level. This document, Volume II, includes the critical tasks, competencies needed to perform the tasks, and a…

The standards proposed here are designed to serve as a yardstick for public libraries and library systems that serve a population of 150,000 or more and that wish to establish audiovisual services or to strengthen their existing collections and services. The guidelines are intended to supplement the "Minimum Standards for Public Library Systems,…

After outlining the advantages of individualizing instruction through the use of learning laboratories, this book describes the physical facilities needed in a laboratory and stresses the crucial role of the laboratory coordinator, who must be a counselor, test administrator, tutor or teacher, supervisor, bookkeeper, and curriculum specialist. A…