A chronology of the events in a 1977-1978 series of teacher/school board/administrator conflicts in Warsaw, Indiana, is presented in this paper. Newspaper stories, editorials, letters, memoranda, interview statements, legal documents, and minutes of various meetings are cited in accounts of numerous individual events. The events reported involve…

Four hundred and six books, articles, and instructional realia published between 1945 and 1968 are listed in this bibliography for teachers and students of Spanish-speaking and bilingual students. While emphasis is placed on English as a second language textual materials for all levels of education from primary to adult, lists of materials such as…

Beginning chapters of this volume define language and describe the sound, stress, and intonation systems of English. The body of the text explores extensively morphology, phonetics, phonemics, and the process of communication. Individual chapters detail such topics as morphemes, syntactic devices, grammatical systems, phonemic problems in language…

A textbook of audiovisual materials describes the use of items for classroom display, the blackboard, and flat materials (flash cards, projectionable materials, films). There are separate chapters on the audial materials and techniques (phonograph and radio), tape recorders, television, and the foreign language laboratory. An extensive appendix…

Findings are presented from a questionnaire survey of selected statistics of pupil enrollment, number of high school graduates in 1963, percent of students graduating based on grade 10 enrollment, and certain characteristics, such as organization, compulsory school age, pupil mobility, free textbooks, and free kindergartens of large city school…

This illustrated reader is intended for advanced language students in a bilingual education setting on the elementary level. It is a traditional adventure story written in Gwich'in Athapascan. (NCR)

The rationale behind the approach taken for an academic writing course, "Communicate in Writing: the English of Academic Study," is discussed. The first step was to provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of specimens of appropriate texts in functional terms. This analysis was made in order to identify the most frequently occurring…

Films are becoming recognized as an important medium of foreign language instruction. Although there is a lack of instructional films in German, an abundance of excellent feature films is available through the German Embassy and various consulates. Well-edited scenarios are needed, however, in order to make using these films an effective teaching…

The field-tested activity manual is intended to improve cooperative education coordinators' relationships with their students by providing an individualized approach that allows the student to participate in planning the area of emphasis for study and activity. Although useful in regularly scheduled classes, it was prepared especially for those…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks initially prepared for the Armed Forces and now offered to the public. The text is designed to be used with a native speaker of Danish or with the accompanying recordings. The textbook is divided into three major sections, each consisting of five learning units and one unit for review. Each unit…

This guide is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides the purpose and goals of ethnic studies and explains how to use the guide. Part 2 contains eight units for the study of ethnic experiences. These include (1) Native American, (2) Mexican American, (3) Black American, (4) Jewish American, (5) Italian American, (6) Polish American, (7) Japanese…

A practical guide to preparing an undergraduate research paper in African history is provided. Since the common problems of choosing a topic and locating needed resources often require more time than is necessary, suggestions which increase efficency in these stages are emphasized. A short annotated list of African history textbooks with clear…

Title IX of the Education Amendemtns of 1972 bars sex discrimination in any academic, extracurricular, research, occupational training or other educational program operated by an organization or agency that receives or benefits from federal aid. The regulation (45 CFR Part 86) for Title IX summarized in this document falls into five categories:…

Access to all kinds of materials useful to educational researchers is provided by this guide. There is an explanation of the library card catalog, followed by an annotated bibliography which includes books, periodicals, indexes, directories, abstracts, reviews, theses, dissertations, research studies, government publications, pamphlets,…

This collection is prefaced by a discussion of the Ceylon seminar from which the papers included here derived. The papers are grouped into 12 chapters: (1) "The Humanistic Aspect of the Teaching of Modern Languages," (2) "The Teaching of Modern Languages as a Key to the Understanding of Other Civilizations and Peoples," (3) "The Methodology of…