Audiovisual instruction has become a necessary part of good teaching. This monograph separates the experiences and devices of audiovisual materials into three categories: nonprojected, projected, and audio materials and equipment. The design of schools for the use of such materials, the importance of audiovisual research, and the administration of…

To assist vocational agriculture teacher-coordinators in development and improvement of directed work experience programs, a project was initiated to (1) develop tentative procedures, (2) pre-test the procedures, (3) evaluate procedures and outcomes, and (4) revise the procedures for dissemination. Representing the final stage of this project,…

Intended for local school district and state education agency personnel, the resource manual provides a guide for placement committees to follow in fulfilling their responsibilities, especially in developing individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children, and a guide for those responsible for training placement committees in…

Reported here are the hearings on the Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act, which requires participants of federal aid to higher education to provide senior citizens with access, on a space available basis, to already scheduled courses and programs. The hearings were held in New York City on June 11, 1977, before the Subcommittee on…

Documenting the inefficiency of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs for American Indians, this report discusses HUD program administration and presents specific recommendations. The report is divided into the following sections and subsections: (1) 1977 is the ninth consecutive year HUD has promised more Indian housing than it has…

This publication is a comprehensive record of testimony and exhibits presented to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives during hearings on H.R. 15, a bill to extend for five years various federally funded elementary, secondary, and other…

This State Education Agency (SEA) Self Analysis Instrument for ESEA Title I is one of the products developed and validated by the SEA (State Educational Agencies) Management of Compensatory Education, a multistate project funded through ESEA Title V-505. An additional product of the project was a SEA Process Model said to support the…

The booklet provides some guidelines and suggestions around which career guidance programs may design their standards. It discusses and briefly outlines some recent legislation, publications, speeches, and committee actions which deal with the objectives and methods of career guidance. It lists 10 assumptions which should be considered when…

The contents of this report by the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs--based on information gathered at the National Nutrition Policy hearings, from testimony before the Select Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee and through staff investigation--are organized in nine chapters, as follows: (1) Food Stamp…

Project ACT (Adult Competency Training) was a United States Office of Education staff development project in Region 8 from 1972 to 1975, implementing a self-generating and self-supporting staff system to help adult educators become better prepared to serve their clients. The project served Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and…

External funding can provide a valuable means of enabling an institution to augment the growth and quality of its regular program. Because the institutional benefits of special projects can be maintained only through a reasonable degree of central administration and control, Chemeketa Community College has developed this guidebook of procedures to…

The document presents a description of the policies and procedures of the New York City Street Crime Unit (SCU) which conducts street surveillance and decoy activities. The organization and administrative structure of the SCU is studied according to the size of a unit and the chain of command requirements. The SCU's methods for selecting and…

An investigation of the activities of the state Right to Read Programs during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 is provided in this volume. In order to determine the effects of the programs at the state and local educational-agency levels, data were obtained from visits to the 31 state departments of education involved and to…

Case studies describing the program operation of the 31 state components of the Right to Read Program during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 are provided in this volume. Data are grouped into nine major categories of investigation: estimated participation in programs, projection of total participation, training activities,…

This study consists of a list of guidelines for the implementation and operation of a year-round school program. The list was developed from a survey of 120 school administrators, functioning at the superintendent, district, and unit school levels, who are involved in 45-15 year-round programs in 16 school districts throughout the country. These…