The document is a proposal for American Indian Studies (AIS) at Montana State University (MSU). The 7 Indian reservations in Montana remain isolated within the prevailing life-ways of the state, thereby becoming virtual economic, political, and social islands within its culture. Montana Indian education has been inexcusably low, with less than 200 college students from all reservations in a recent academic year against an estimated 4,000 Indian youths of college age in the state. MSU, as a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Participation, Program Descriptions, Tribes, Universities
A national directory of tutorial projects was prepared by the Tutorial Assistance Center of the United States National Student Association. The directory is arranged alphabetically by states, including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The listings indicate the person to contact, number of tutors and tutees, program content, grade level, operating period, and occasional other notations. The index offers a breakdown indicating adult education, college and university...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Directories, Program Descriptions, Tutorial Programs
This document is the second in a series of biannual surveys. It is a collection of project descriptions, each of which includes the following: (a) project title; (b) statement of whether the project is in progress or completed; (c) affiliated institute; (d) name of project and investigation leader; (e) personnel; (f) time schedule; (g) source of finance; (h) keywords, taken from the EUDISED Thesaurus or the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors; (i) background, aims, and problem; (j) scope; (k)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Program Descriptions, Research Projects
With the aim of honoring the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by working to make his "human rights revolution" a reality, this report considers efforts to build a human rights society in the United States. The report celebrates the Center for Human Rights Education's (CHRE's) growth and accomplishments and documents the Center's work to ensure that both the language and the practice of human rights thinking become an essential part of U.S. social justice movements. The report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Liberties, Educational Attitudes, Program Descriptions
This digest describes the population of migrant farmworkers, some of their educational challenges, and programs currently available to serve them. Challenges cited include the constant mobility of migrant farm workers as they follow the crops, lack of a national record system to track the progress of adults, lack of transportation, and lack of child care. Fear is also a factor; many undocumented workers are afraid to apply for programs even when qualified. The two main types of programs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Literacy Education, Migrant Workers, Program Descriptions
This presentation and training aid provides a brief overview and discussion of the nature and scope of youth suicide, what prevention programs try to do, a framework for a public health approach, guides to programs and more. This material can be used for both handouts and as overheads for use with presentations. (GCP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Prevention, Program Descriptions, Public Health, Suicide, Youth
A short description of the availability of Harvard Project Physics course components is given as is a discussion of the growth of the use of Project Physics in schools, including some enrollment data and survey results. Locations of the 1970 and 1971 Summer Institutes are listed. Adaptations of Project Physics course outside the United States are discussed. A brief bibliography of articles related to Project Physics or other matters of interest is listed. An index of the Project Physics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Newsletters, Physics, Program Descriptions, Secondary School Science
This booklet describes the efforts and successes of the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI), a collaborative research venture of Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania that conducts research describing and analyzing the challenges of postsecondary education. Its goal is to provide institutions, policy makers, employers, students, parents, faculty, and administrators with the information and tools necessary to help them improve the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Since 1969 the International Planned Parenthood Federation has worked with the government of Botswana in setting up family planning services. An evaluation of the family planning aspects of the program were carried out. This is a summary of three research studies and some general comments. Included is: (1) an introduction to Botswana and the studies; (2) summary and comments regarding a study of family welfare educators; (3) summary and comments of a study of service statistics; and (4) summary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Planning, Population Education, Program Descriptions, Research, Surveys
The implementation handbook, over two-thirds of which is comprised of appendixes, describes a three-phased career education program in Texas involving 40 gifted and talented high school seniors. Phase I, the Guidance Laboratory Experience, features self-investigation and evaluation, career exploration, resource speakers, isolation of career areas, and mentorship interviews. In Phase II, Mentorship Laboratory Experience, students are placed in observer roles in specialized areas. Phase III,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Gifted, High Schools, Program Descriptions, Talent
This Kentucky plan for the years 1997-2002 is the third iteration of desegregation planning which began in 1982. It is the second edition of "The Kentucky Plan" adopted in 1990. This edition embraces the dynamic nature of public higher education in Kentucky as institutions seek to provide greater access for an increasingly diverse student population. Sections in the 1997-2002 plan include: Committee on Equal Opportunities; Introduction; Vision Statement; Basis for the Kentucky Plan;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Enrollment, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Status
This booklet touches on many topics related to child care consumer education for parents. The booklet begins by defining child care consumer education, discussing this education as a way to provide parents with child care information to assess their needs, locate services, evaluate quality, and choose the best possible care for their children. The booklet asserts that parents need information, personal attention, and access to support during the process of choosing child care. The booklet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consumer Education, Day Care, Parent Education, Program Descriptions
Noting that fruit and vegetable consumption is an important component of a balanced diet consistent with the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" and the Food Guide Pyramid, this report fulfills a request from the Appropriations Committee Directives to analyze current levels of fresh produce in Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritional programs, including school lunch programs. The report examines the USDA commodity purchasing process and the agencies involved in these purchases, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Children, Lunch Programs, National Programs, Nutrition, Program Descriptions
This report describes the content of an educational program for family day care mothers based on the results of a year-long collaborative effort of 24 low-income licensed day care mothers and the staff of the Educational Day Care Consultation Program at the University of Michigan. The Project staff, program structure, group meetings, individual home visits, recommended goals of a training program for day care mothers, lists of pamphlets and materials distributed to participants, and selected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Day Care, Guides, Mothers, Program Content, Program Descriptions
This publication highlights major achievements of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) activities over the period 1970 to 1990. Chapter 1, "The Stockholm Conference and the Establishment of UNEP," describes the establishment of UNEP. Chapter 2, "The Role of UNEP," covers program development, environment and development, and UNEP's priorities. Chapter 3, "Two Decades of Achievements," highlights problems and programs in the areas of protection of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Environmental Education, Global Education, International Programs, Program...
This document contains accounts of nearly 200 programs currently in operation in California intermediate and secondary schools. The programs described were selected from among a large number of programs nominated by personnel from schools, district offices, and offices of county superintendents of schools. Teams of state department of education and school district personnel visited each of the nominated programs to confirm the accuracy of the descriptions. The publication is designed for use by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Instructional Programs, Program Descriptions, Secondary...
The speaker describes the El Paso approach to grade reports. The district has several different methods of reporting student progress. They include report cards every six weeks, an interim progress report for students who are doing unsatisfactory work or work that is not as good as could be expected, and parent conferences. (IRT)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading, Program Descriptions, Report Cards
Brief, individual program descriptions from member organizations of the National Federation for the Improvement of Rural Education (NFIRE) constitute the sum of this report on NFIRE developments. Each report includes: the name of the organization; the name of a contact person; an address; an organizational classification; a descriptive note on the general nature of the work performed by the organization in rural education; and the significant highlights or major focus of organizational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activities, Organizations (Groups), Program Descriptions, Rural Education, Synthesis
The seven descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in the U. S. which may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The programs described are: the Appalachian Adult Education Center (Morehead State University, Kentucky); The Georgia Expanded Food and Nutrition Project (Georgia...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Innovation, Program Descriptions
The National Association of Governors' Highway Safety Representatives (NAGHSR), with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), pilot tested a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program in a number of communities across the country. In 1995, NAGHSR launched the effort in five communities, which received technical assistance on the comprehensive approach to underage drinking prevention incusing assistance on coalition building, needs based strategic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Case Studies, Drinking, Prevention, Program Descriptions, Program...
This article describes the use of an eMentoring program by the Orphan Foundation of America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping young people move out of foster care and into adult life. The eMentoring program, which allows youth and their mentors to communicate via e-mail, helps foster youth prepare for work life by matching them with mentors based on their professional interests. The article includes highlights of the eMentoring process and a discussion of the benefits and risks of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Electronic Mail, Foster Children, Mentors, Program Descriptions, Newberger, Julee
The National Audiovisual Center was established in 1968 to provide a single organizational unit that serves as a central information point on completed audiovisual materials and a central sales point for the distribution of media that were produced by or for federal agencies. This speech describes the services the center can provide users of audiovisual materials, whether government or the public, and the services the center can provide a producer of audiovisual materials within the federal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, Federal Programs, Policy, Program Descriptions
The report analyzes the scope of child sexual abuse and reviews treatment approaches to the problem. A tentative definition of child sexual abuse is offered, and incidence figures are examined. Family dynamics surrounding incest are described, as are effects on children and families. Characteristics of successful treatment and prevention approaches are cited. The document concludes with a bibliography of approximately 75 citations and with abstracts of 15 child sexual abuse programs. (CL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Abuse, Definitions, Family Problems, Intervention, Prevention, Program...
A flexible surface disc device serves as the basis for the design of a computer operated multi-user shared hardware audio response system. The device employs a slow moving flexible, air supported surface in contact with a large number of heads. Relatively instantaneous distribution of audio from any portion of the disc to the users in accomplished through pulse amplitude and digital techniques. Analog recording and fixed heads in contact with the flexible surface allow for a reasonable...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audio Equipment, Computers, Design, Equipment, Program Descriptions, Voth, Brian
Described are 10 models of educational programing for gifted students as they have been implemented by different school districts. The following program alternatives are discussed: learning centers; resource rooms (implemented with native American students in a sparsely populated area); itinerant teachers; mobile learning units; executive internships; in class alternatives; programs providing unique learning experiences; special schools and self contained classes; Saturday seminars; and an arts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Models, Nontraditional Education, Program...
A project to produce reports on ten effective bilingual education programs is described. The work involved in generating the report series was conducted in four phases: site identification and development of report formats, selection of sites and report writers, visits of writers to the program sites, and review and submission of the reports. The criteria for selection of bilingual program sites, the sites featured in the report series, descriptions of the selected programs and report writers,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions,...
This document provides information about the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP). UCSMP began by examining the curricula of other countries for proven ideas and methods, creating textbooks and training programs at both the elementary and secondary level, and engaging in extensive evaluations of its own work. This publication presents an overview on the developments of UCSMP over the years and UCSMP activities from 1983-2000. Materials available from UCSMP and contact...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Program...
Presented is a directory of 169 projects for severely handicapped persons. Descriptions include title of project, director's name, project address and telephone number, target population, designation of personnel (including teacher, medical personnel, and psychologist) involved in training, project areas (such as staff training, communication and socialization), and a brief abstract. Descriptions are explained to be solicited from a survey of directors of departments of mental retardation and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Directories, Exceptional Child Education, Program Descriptions, Severe...
THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH IS TO CORRELATE A COLLECTED MASS OF INFORMATION RELATED TO THE ACCEPTED NEED TO ESTABLISH A CURRICULUM FOR TEACHING GLASS AS A FINE ART MATERIAL IN THE UNITED STATES. AN ARTIST OR AN ARCHITECT WHO WISHES TO LEARN THE POTENTIAL USE OF GLASS MUST GO TO EUROPE, AS NO COMPREHENSIVE TEACHING OF GLASS AS A FINE ART EXISTS ON THE AMERICAN TEACHING SCENE. INFORMATION WAS COLLECTED DURING VISITS TO EGYPT AND GREECE, AND TO LOCATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, SUCH AS DOMINICK...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Glass, Program Descriptions, WILLSON,...
The guide summarizes eight federal programs providing special services and aids to disabled postsecondary students. Each program is described in terms of program name; legislative authority; brief summary; services to disabled postsecondary students; name or title of campus contact person; eligibility information (students and institutions); appropriations for FY 1981, FY 1982, and FY 1983; and names of federal contact persons. Programs address the needs of disadvantaged, hearing impaired, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Federal Programs, Organizations (Groups), Postsecondary Education,...
This report covers the activities of the Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) from October 1, 1967 through October 31, 1968, and indicates the major efforts projected for the future. Included in the report are descriptions of the Center's projects and activities, the new CSE approach, administrative functions and supporting services, its staff and national advisors. (MLP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Evaluation, Program Descriptions, Research and Development Centers
This proposal for a differentiated secondary school teacher education program consists of a brief program outline followed by a description of the two parts of the program. Part 1 delineates suggested criteria (classroom performance skills, administration and coordinating skills, human interaction skills, and content knowledge and related skills) for advancement through the program, advancement depending upon meeting criteria rather than spending defined amounts of time on each area. Part 2...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individualized Programs, Program Descriptions, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher...
Volume 2 of the second biannual survey of educational research in member states of the Council of Europe compiles survey replies from Denmark, Finland, Ireland, and Norway. The survey provides detailed yet concise information on the educational research policies of these governments relative to major educational research projects reported or in progress in the country. The report from each country is divided into two parts: (1) activities of educational research organizations, and (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, International Education, Program Descriptions, Research...
The special projects for improvement in nurse training listed here were funded by the Division of Nursing for the period June 1965 to June 1978. The list is arranged alphabetically by state, city, institution, and project. Each entry includes the following: grant code number, project period, institution name and address, project title, project category, and a brief project description. The project categories are as follow: career development, curriculum revision, expanded clinical role, faculty...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Directories, Federal Legislation, Nursing, Program Descriptions, Program Improvement,...
White House Conferences on Children and Youth, an idea originated by James E. West, have been held at approximately 10-year intervals during this century: 1909, 1919, 1930, 1940, 1950, and 1960. Although called by the President, and with one or more sessions usually having been held in the White House (from which the name of the conferences derive), the purpose of these conferences has been to advise the American people. Each of the conferences has been concerned with a problem typical of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Conferences, National Programs, Program Descriptions
The report relates the experience of contractors with the Manpower Administration of the Department of Labor in providing adult basic education to manpower program clients in research and demonstration projects. It summarizes the findings and progress of several experimental projects from the initial efforts under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 to those still underway as the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 came into force. Drawing on experiences from the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Program Descriptions, Teaching Methods
This report by the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC) describes its organization and activities and also library developments in Mississippi under the Library Services and Construction Act for the fiscal year 1973. The long range goals are listed as well as the resources development and services which the MLC has undertaken. The recent staff reorganization is described and an organization chart of the MLC is provided. The work load statistics, organization and activities of the centralized...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Library Services, Program Descriptions, State Agencies, State...
This report describes the year-long teaching internship at Seattle Pacific College (S.P.C.). Following completion of the sophomore block, a 10 quarter hour block including a daily public school laboratory experience, 75 students were placed in a year-long internship assignment in four public schools. Under the internship plan, after completion of a summer training session, the student was placed in a public school for a full day assignment for the entire academic year. The intern could earn...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Internship Programs, Program Descriptions, Teacher Education,...
The six descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in other countries that may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The six programs described are: Adult Education in Tanzania; A National Movement; The Functional Literacy and Family Life Planning Project (Thailand); Accion Cultural...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Program...
This document presents succinct guidelines for the general instruction programs of physical education in colleges and universities; it is not intended to cover programs of professional preparation in physical education or programs in the academic discipline of human movement. Its purpose is to increase the understanding of students, faculty, administration, and governing boards concerning the contribution of physical education to the general education of students in colleges and universities....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, College Curriculum, Physical Activities, Physical Education, Program...
In the 1967-68 annual report of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, an account is given of organizational expansion, financial and related problems, and activities both in Canada and abroad. Organizational concerns include facilities, university extension, new staff members, and the director's request for a leave of absence to visit the University of Zambia. Professional activities are reported for such areas as new publications, research and professional development, public school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Adult Education, Annual Reports, Expenditures, Professional...
Two sections of this newsletter are concrened with describing the present activities of curriculum projects and professional societies, in Great Britain, in the areas of science education and mathematics education. Announcements of general education activities, two articles concerning science education projects in Australia and Peru, seven short articles describing international conferences, an annotated publications list of science and science education books, and seven abstracts of journal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, International Education, Mathematics Education, Newsletters, Program...
The speaker outlines some of the difficulties in education that have prompted educators to search for alternative approaches, offers guidelines for the implementation of alternatives, and outlines the alternatives available in the Teaneck, New Jersey, schools. (IRT)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Nontraditional...
The four papers contained in this document were written by three members of the Materials Development Unit, Rehabilitation Research Foundation, Elmore, Alabama. These papers were selected for joint distribution to present the authors' experiences with the mathetical system in light of current mathetical programing activities. "The Two Meanings of Mathetics" and "Mathetics - The Ugly Duckling Learns to Fly" are an overview of the mathetical system and the techniques employed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Industrial Training, Instruction, Program Descriptions,...
The report provides descriptions of 65 projects in the states of Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin which were identified by a peer nomination process as representing unique and exemplary practices in special education. The one page description of each project includes program title; information on population served; a one paragraph description; program materials available; funding information; and name, address, and phone number of a contact person. (DB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Program...
In this progress report a summary of activities of the Pennsylvania Day Care Study Project is organized along the following framework: (1) design of an information management system, (2) the core analysis, and (3) exploratory studies. Activities needed in the future to accomplish goals are discussed as well as completed aspects of the project. (DP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Science Research, Day Care, Evaluation, Information Systems, Program...
The Cooperative Research Program (CRP) was organized in 1956 by the U.S. Office of Education. This 7-year program developed new knowledge about major educational problems and devised new applications of existing knowledge for solving problems. The average contribution of the Federal Government to each project was $50,000 for a 2-year project or $25,000 per year. The amount contributed by colleges, universities and state departments of education varied widely but was used for services,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Program Guides,...
This handbook presents in summary form descriptions of the Middle States Association, the Commission on Higher Education and its organization, a statement of the Commission's functions and working philosophy, brief sections on accreditation and the accrediting process, and a set of major policy statements adopted by the Commission and by the Federation of Regional Accrediting Commissions of Higher Education (FRACHE). In addition to the presentation of Commission policies, practices, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Policy, Higher Education, Organizations...
The selected bibliography of programs for speech handicapped children contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of November, 1973. Abstracts are chosen using the criteria of availability of document to user, current applicability, information value, author reputation, and classical content. Preliminary information explains how to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Exceptional Child Education, Program...
The advertising program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) has at least 12 measures of program assessment, which serve as a basis for discussion rather than as a prescription for an effective assessment program. The program assessment methods are accrediting, internal program review, teaching evaluations, a university survey of faculty, university and departmental comprehensive tests, a university survey of seniors, university senior essays, a university survey of alumni, a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Advertising, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Program...
