MARANAO, OF THE MALAYO-POLYNESIAN LANGUAGE GROUP, IS ONE OF THE EIGHT MAJOR LANGUAGES IN THE PHILIPPINES AND IS SPOKEN BY 400,000 MOSLEMS ON THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO. THIS DICTIONARY, BASED PRIMARILY ON THE SPOKEN FORM OF THE LANGUAGE, CONTAINS 18,000 MARANAO ENTRIES IN PART I AND THEIR ALPHABETIZED ENGLISH GLOSSES CROSS-REFERENCED IN PART II. THE INTRODUCTION INCLUDES A SKETCH OF MARANAO GRAMMAR TO AID THE READER IN IDENTIFYING BASE FORMS (USED FOR THE ENTRIES) AND A RATHER EXTENSIVE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Botany, Computer Programs, Cultural Context, Dictionaries, Grammar, Lexicography,...
The purpose of this handbook is to provide information on the fundamental requirements, as set down in the Federal law and policy, that are necessary in planning Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act proposals. Also, this handbook is meant to clarify Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and its amendments. It provides a further elaboration of Health Education Welfare Department Program Guides 44 and 45A for Title I. The handbook is organized to reflect in sequence...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Compensatory Education, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Program...
THE MATERIALS FOR A BASIC COURSE IN SPOKEN BENGALI PRESENTED IN THIS BOOK WERE PREPARED BY REVISION OF AN EARLIER WORK DATED 1959. THE REVISION WAS BASED ON EXPERIENCE GAINED FROM 2 YEARS OF CLASSROOM WORK WITH THE INITIAL COURSE MATERIALS AND ON ADVICE AND COMMENTS RECEIVED FROM THOSE TO WHOM THE FIRST DRAFT WAS SENT FOR CRITICISM. THE AUTHORS OF THIS COURSE ACKNOWLEDGE THE BENEFITS THIS REVISION HAS GAINED FROM ANOTHER COURSE, "SPOKEN BENGALI," ALSO WRITTEN IN 1959, BY FERGUSON AND...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiotape Recordings, Bengali, Grammar, Language Aids, Language Instruction, Pattern...
The sources of the idioms included here, and of the notations about their grammatical and stylistic properties, were two Russian lexicons: "Tolkovyj Slovar' russkogo jazyka," published in Moscow in 1935, and "Slovar' russkogo jazyka," published in 1957 by the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow. Each entry contains the headword from the source lexicon, printed in capital Cyrillic letters, followed by a two-digit evaluation code that precedes each idiom and refers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computational Linguistics, Cyrillic Alphabet, Dictionaries, Grammar, Idioms, Language...
This text is designed to enable a student who knows English to gain reading proficiency in Albanian. Part One, which is presented here, includes the first 30 of the 100 units in the complete course. The units include texts from various periods of Albanian writing and include a variety of contents and styles: folklore, biography, news articles, literary works, art, history, archeology, humor, and allegory. Each unit has been provided with glosses for the lexical items that appear in the reader...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Albanian, Grammar, Independent Study, Postsecondary Education, Reading Instruction,...
This textbook of Nepali lessons is a revision of a text originally developed in 1965. Materials are divided into seven units and are organized to follow an audiolingual approach with pattern drills. The numeric system of Nepali is also outlined. A Nepali-English glossary is included, with both romanized and script versions of Nepali words, as well as an English-Nepali glossary and an English-Nepali technical glossary for surveyors. (CLK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiolingual Methods, English, Glossaries, Instructional Materials, Language...
This Aklanon-English dictionary consists of a list of basic root words or word bases of Aklanon. The dictionary is designed to be used both by native speakers of Aklanon and by foreign learners. For the former, it can serve to: (1) establish a uniform system of spelling, (2) broaden or intensify the use and understanding of idiomatic standard American English, (3) serve as a reference book for the standard speech of Kalibo, (4) broaden the vocabulary of those interested in studying their native...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dialect Studies, Dictionaries, Etymology, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Idioms,...
A Tagalog reader designed for adult students beyond the intermediate level contains 30 lessons in agriculture, art, economics, education, history, language, literature, medicine, music, political science, religion, and sociology. Each unit contains four sections: (1) a reading passage with numbered paragraphs and underlined vocabulary words, for later reference; (2) two word lists containing general and specialized or technical vocabulary, defined as used in the text, with parts of speech,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Advanced Courses, Creative Writing, Cultural Education, Foreign...
Numerical tables of mathematical functions are in continual demand by scientists and engineers for preliminary surveys of problems before programming for computing machines. This handbook was designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems. The chapters contain numerical tables, graphs, polynomial or rational approximations for automatic computers, and statements of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Engineering, Functions (Mathematics), Graphs, Mathematical Formulas, Mathematics,...
Beginning Pashto is part of a set of materials for teaching oral and written Afghan Pashto. The Pashto writing system is taught in the first unit of the book and is used in the presentation of the material from then on. In the first three units, material is provided also in a romanized transcription. After that, the transcription of a word or phrase is given only when the word or phrase is introduced, or when pronunciation is the focus. Dialogues and readings on various topics (e.g. food,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Pashto,...
This index to the major communication journals published before 1975 contains a table of contents listing the primary articles in 13 journals, a subject index of those articles, and a contributors' index. The journals included are "The Quarterly Journal of Speech,""Speech Monographs,""The Speech Teacher,""Southern Speech Communication Journal,""Western Speech,""Central States Speech Journal,""Today's Speech,""ADASC...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication (Thought Transfer), Debate, Group Dynamics, Indexes, Interpersonal...
This document consists of the first 16 issues of a serial providing learning activities for intermediate and advanced students of Spanish. Each issue is organized around a separate theme, with the first 9 issues devoted to celebration of the fifth centenary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: (1) "Cultural Contact"; (2) "Expeditions"; (3) "The Age of Discoveries"; (4) "The Hispanic Presence in the United States"; (5) "Expo '92";...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Area Studies, Athletics, Content Area Reading, Cultural Activities, Culture Contact,...
This document provides a computer-based concordance of the vocabulary used in Friedrich von Schiller's "Aesthetic and Philosophical Writings" as they appear in Volumes 20 and 21 of Schiller's "Werke," 1967 edition, edited by Benno von Wiese. The first section includes the entire text, each sentence numbered for research purposes. The second section presents a frequency list of words, symbols, and digraphs and trigraphs appearing in the text. The third section provides a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aesthetic Education, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Computers,...
This supplement to the Peace Corps Course in Tunisian Arabic is intended primarily for Peace Corps volunteers, but is also useful to other English speakers who wish to acquire systematically a knowledge of Tunisian Arabic. The dictionary consists of two parts. The lexicon, which begins with a chart of all the phonetic symbols used in the dictionary, explains the main points of Tunisian Arabic grammar. The main body of the work follows, with separate English-Tunisian Arabic and Tunisian...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Arabic, Dictionaries, English, Grammar, Language Instruction, Multilingual Materials,...
The Mathematics Resource Project has as its goal the production of topical resources for teachers, drawn from the vast amounts of available material. This experimental edition on Ratio, Proportion, and Scaling, contains a teaching emphasis section, a classroom materials section, and teacher commentaries. The teaching emphasis section stresses ideas which may help to teach the topic, including calculators, applications, problem solving, mental arithmetic, estimation and approximation, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Calculators, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Instructional Materials,...
These lessons in Chichewa are a continuation of the first volume. As in the first volume, two types of lessons are presented. The "A" lessons present basic grammatical patterns through explicit discussions of the patterns involved. The "B" lessons present language in use. They contain dialogs, monologs, narratives, proverbs, riddles, and exercises based on these forms of communication. A section of supplementary materials provides readings on various topics of a cultural...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Culture, African Languages, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural...
This guide is designed for Ivatan (Ibatan) language training of Peace Corps workers in the Philippines, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of: phrase lists for a wide range of daily activities and needs; a list of targeted core language competencies, at three proficiency levels, for those daily activities; an Ivatan-to-English glossary; a workbook with illustrated exercises for language practice and skill reinforcement; and extensive grammar notes. (MSE)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acculturation, Community Services, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills,...
This audiolingual course in Indonesian consists of 102 lesson units; Volumes I-XI. (Volume I is in two separately bound sections.) The lessons are designed to train beginning students to Level 3 proficiency in comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing Indonesian. (This scale rates native speakers on Level 5.) Units consist of perception drills with cartoon guides, dialogs with English translation, pattern drills, grammar and cultural notes, and vocabulary listings. Later units provide for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Context, Grammar, Indonesian, Instructional Materials,...
This report examines the impact of recent and anticipated advances in communication and information technologies on the intellectual property system. Focusing primarily on the federal copyright system, it assesses the effectiveness of copyright law as a policy tool in the light of technologies such as audio and videorecorders, computer programs, electronic databases, and telecommunications networks. To provide a comprehensive view, the study examines the intellectual property system from a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiotape Recordings, Copyrights, Databases, Federal Government, Government...
Intended for teachers of preschool through sixth grade children, librarians, parents, educational media specialists, and students of children's literature, this bibliography contains annotations of 2,500 recommended books for children. The annotations, listed in alphabetical order by author, are divided into several categories, including the following: (1) traditional literature, (2) modern fantasy, (3) science fiction, (4) historical fiction, (5) contemporary fiction, (6) poetry, (7) holidays,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education,...
This English-Mandinka dictionary is part of the Peace Corps language training instructional materials series. Many of the entries include sample sentences illustrating the use of a given item. (CLK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Languages, Dictionaries, English, Instructional Materials, Language...
This revised selected bibliography offers descriptive annotations of literature, films, records, tapes, and other teaching aids related to marriage, parenthood, family relationships, and kindered topics. The material is divided into the following general areas: (1) theoretical, historical, and cross cultural perspectives on the family; (2) sexuality, sex roles, and sex education; (3) human reproduction and family planning; (4) adolescence and youth, including materials for teenagers and adults;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Family...
This bibliography lists available literature relating to the American Indians of Appalachia. Containing approximately 540 entries, the list includes publications on American Indians from prehistoric times up to the present. The materials focus primarily on the Shawnee and Cherokee tribes, which inhabited portions of what is now called central Appalachia, embracing the mountainous parts of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The listed citations touch upon...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Literature,...
The items in this extensive compilation of resources for early childhood educators are presented in seven sections: (1) sources of information on early childhood education, (2) a collection of various materials produced by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, (3) information on associations and organizations, (4) information on publications and suppliers, (5) information about state activities and publications, (6) articles and special reports, and (7) materials...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Welfare, Early Childhood...
This guide is designed for Ilonggo (Hiligaynon) language training of Peace Corps workers in the Philippines, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of: phrase lists for a wide range of daily activities and needs; a list of targeted core language competencies, at three proficiency levels, for those daily activities; an Ilonggo-to-English glossary; a workbook with illustrated exercises for language practice and skill reinforcement; and extensive grammar notes. (MSE)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Competency Based Education, Conversational Language Courses, Daily...
This guide is designed for Estonian language training of Peace Corps workers in Estonia, is intended for use in a competency-based language training program, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of 52 lessons, each addressing a specific language competency, organized in 14 topical units. An introductory section gives background information on the Estonian language, its phonology, morphology, and syntax. The instructional units follow. Each is prefaced by a page...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acculturation, Classroom Communication, Community Services, Competency Based...
In 1985 the Agency for Instructional Technology conducted its second national contest to search out the best promotion and utilization ideas that instructional television (ITV) agencies use to increase use of instructional video materials; and this 1986 compilation of the award-winning ideas is intended to serve as a reference for instructional technologists. The utilizations projects and activities described were entered in the competition under six major categories: (1) Recognition, which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Awards, Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Television,...
A guide to instruction in Setswana, the most widely dispersed Bantu language in Southern Africa, includes general material about the language, materials for the teacher, 163 lessons, vocabulary lists, and supplementary materials and exercises. Introductory material about the language discusses its distribution and characteristics, and orthography. Each of the lessons consists of at least two phases: mimicry and communication. The first focuses on pronunciation, manipulation of grammatical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiolingual Skills, Bantu Languages, Cultural Context, Daily Living Skills, Games,...
This directory is the tenth edition published by the American Institute of Physics listing colleges and universities which offer degree programs in physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and the staff members who teach the courses. Institutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico are indexed separately, both geographically and alphabetically. Also included is an alphabetical index of personnel. The document is available for sale by Department DAPD, the American Institute of Physics, 335 East...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Astronomy, College Faculty, College Science, Curriculum, Directories, Educational...
A semantic inventory, an organized network of observations on the lexical structure of Huichol, is presented. Each entry includes a name form or lemma, its pronunciation if not clear from the lemma form, part of speech, and examples to illustrate its range of inflections. The discussion of semantics begins with a syntactic framework for the definition using a typical sentence, followed by the definition proper, phrased in terms of elements of the typical sentence as examples of the semantic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Definitions, Grammar, Lexicology, Semantics, Spanish, Syntax, Vocabulary
This volume is intended as a supplement to Nepali language instruction. It contains songs, numerals, dialogues in Devanagari script, a Nepali-English, English-Nepali glossary, and an English-Nepali surveyor technical glossary. (AM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Glossaries, Indo European Languages, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction,...
Through an analysis of school uniform policies and theories of social justice, Samantha Deane argues that school uniforms and their foregoing policies assume that confronting strangers--an imperative of living in a democratic polity--is something that requires seeing sameness instead of recognizing difference. Imbuing schooling with a directive that says schools ought to be places where children learn to confront the humanity of others requires that we ask questions about how educational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Uniforms, School Policy, Humanism, Dress Codes, Social Justice, Cultural...
This audiolingual text is designed to serve as supplementary material for a beginning course in Finnish, to be introduced "when the student has mastered much of the basic structure of Finnish and about 700 lexical items." The authors suggest that it may also be used as an intermediate course. The text comprises 57 graded reading selections representative of various types of Finnish literature and writing. Each reading is followed by comprehension questions intended to develop facility...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Context, Finnish, Glossaries, Instructional Materials,...
The two volumes comprising this text represent the beginning and intermediate levels of a course in the Quechua language for speakers of Spanish. Based on the "Audio Lingual Materials" format, the ten lessons in the the first volume generally contain: (1) a short dialog and a supplementary vocabulary section or adapted dialog which present new structures, (2) explanation of new grammatical structures, presented in non-technical linguistic terminology, and (3) a number of repetition,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiolingual Skills, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Quechua, Spanish...
This teacher's manual for a preschool second-year program in English as a second language contains daily lesson plans--objectives, activities, exercises, and subject material--for 22 weeks of class. The program is designed for two English instructional periods per day. English should also be used as the medium of instruction in one other subject. The first four weeks are spent in review of the first year's work. The subjectives and subject material for each week's work are listed at the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, English (Second...
Opinions abound on what students should wear to class. Some see student dress as a safety issue; others see it as a student-rights issue. The issue of dress codes and uniform policies has been tackled in the classroom, the boardroom, and the courtroom. This Policy Report examines the whole fabric of the debate on dress codes and uniform policies through a collection of short reports; policy recommendations; and opinions by administrators, teachers, students, and civil libertarians. Topics of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Liberties, Clothing, Dress Codes, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary...
This series of four text-workbooks was designed for tenth grade mathematics students who have exhibited lack of problem-solving skills. Electric desk calculators are to be used with the text. In the first five chapters of the series, students learn how to use the machine while reviewing basic operations with whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and percents. The rest of the chapters present word problems in simple consumer mathematics, business activities, installment buying, banking, stocks and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Algorithms, Calculators, Grade 10, Instruction, Instructional Materials, Laboratory...
This question book was developed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for testing applicants who are preparing for certification as airline transport pilots, aircraft dispatchers, or flight navigators. The publication contains several innovative features that are a departure from previous FAA publications related to air carrier personnel certification written tests: (1) testing materials related to the pilot who seeks to advance to the airline transport pilot level are contained in this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Air Traffic Control, Air Transportation, Aircraft Pilots, Aviation Education,...
Two experimental language-learning textbooks were developed in collaboration with Apache-speaking scholars from the San Carlos and White Mountain Reservations. One was written in the grammar-translation tradition and modeled after successful textbooks for Navajo and Papago. While the text's main purpose is to teach elementary conversational Western Apache with some emphasis on reading and writing, it also teaches some of the linguistics of Western Apache to Apache students and speakers....
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Apache, Elementary Secondary...
Intended for use by food service personnel and management, dietitians, college teachers, students, and researchers, this catalog lists a wide variety of instructional resource materials in the areas of nutrition, health education, cooking, and food services management. The main sections of the catalog are: (1) the bibliography--a complete citation of the title, author, source, date of release, descriptor terms, and an informative synopsis of the contents; (2) subject index--a listing according...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Breakfast Programs, Catalogs, Consumer Education, Cooking Instruction,...
This guide is designed for Tagalog language training of Peace Corps workers in the Philippines and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of 21 learning modules to be used in independent study. Each module contains a list of the targeted language competencies and related phrases, a dialogue or text, vocabulary list, grammar notes, usage, vocabulary and grammar exercises, a cultural activity, and an answer key. Module topics include: greetings and introductions,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills, Dialogs (Language), Food,...
These lessons in Chichewa, the official language of Malawi, aim to enable the student to achieve working competency in the language in the shortest time possible. The "A" lessons in the book present basic grammatical patterns through explicit discussions of the patterns involved. The "B" lessons present language in use. They contain dialogs, monologs, narratives, proverbs, riddles, and exercises based on these forms of communication. The text is illustrated with pen-and-ink...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Culture, African Languages, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural...
This handbook is designed by teachers for teachers to share ideas and activities for celebrating the Martin Luther King holiday, as well as to teach students about other famous black leaders throughout the school year. The lesson plans and activities are presented for use in K-12 classrooms. Each lesson plan has a designated subject area, goals, behavioral objectives, materials and resources, suggested activities, and an evaluation. Many plans include student-related materials such as puzzles,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Activities, Black Achievement, Black Leadership, Class Activities, Curriculum...
This textbook presents the essential structural features of Djerma as it is currently spoken in the western region of Niger. The course is organized into 30 units which constitute instructional material for from 300 to 400 hours of classroom instruction. It is specifically designed for intensive training programs of approximately 4 to 5 hours per day, or 30 hours per week, extending over a period of 10 to 12 weeks. Thirty tape recordings, containing the dialogues and drills of the 30 units,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Languages, Audiolingual Methods, Autoinstructional Aids, Dialogs (Language),...
This book consists of four sections: (1) "Supplemental Materials"; (2) "Supplemental Investigations"; (3) "Test Item Bank"; and (4) "Blackline Masters." The first section provides additional background material related to selected chapters and investigations in the student book. Included are a periodic table of the elements, genetics problems and solutions, and background information on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The second section...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Biological Sciences, Courseware, Educational Resources, Instructional Materials,...
Papers in this proceedings explore the theme of rethinking teaching and learning through technology. Along with general session papers that address asynchronous learning networks and the World Wide Web as a classroom without walls, the document contains papers in the following eight tracks: (1) Assessing the Effectiveness of Technology in Teaching and Learning, including evaluation of a notebook computing project, evaluation of three educational online delivery approaches, and return on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Computer Uses in Education, Distance...
The passages in transcription comprise one component of the "Pashto Reader" materials. They accompany "Pashto Reader," which is the basic text, and the "Pashto Reader Originals," the passages in their original published forms. They are passages in Pashto presented in broad phonetic transcription, for use by linguists and others interested in the structure and pronunciation of authentic Pashto but unfamiliar with the written script. The 45 passages are divided into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Instructional Materials, Language Variation, Letters (Correspondence),...
Listings of the National Science Foundation's grants and awards for 1972 are organized by topic areas. Within each topic area the entries are listed by state geographical locations. Each entry contains the name(s) of the person(s) conducting the research, the institution at which the research was conducted and the amount of the grant received. (JP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grants, Institutional Research, Mathematics Education, Research Projects,...
The 1969-70 report on California's testing program provides information on the achievement scores of students in grades one, two, three, six, and twelve. The report is divided into three parts: (1) a statewide analysis and summary--an introduction to the report which begins with a summary of the findings; (2) percentile ranks and normalized standard scores for achievement test scores and other school district factors for all districts--the data collected from the program and a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement Tests, Low Achievement, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables, School...
This basic dictionary, consisting of two sections, Amharic-English and English-Amharic, is the first such dictionary written since 1920. Since there is a considerable lack of consistency in Amharic spelling, the Amharic orthography used here has been standardized through etymological studies. Whenever necessary, English expressions are given in parentheses to restrict or clarify the meaning of an entry. (PMP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Amharic, Dictionaries, English, Etymology, Letters (Alphabet), Orthographic Symbols,...
This index to journals in communication studies published through 1979 is divided into three sections. The first section lists the major articles appearing in 14 journals: (1) "The Quarterly Journal of Speech," (2) "Communication Monographs," (3) "Communication Education," (4) "Southern Speech Communication Journal," (5) "Western Journal of Speech Communication," (6) "Central States Speech Journal," (7) "Communication...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Debate, Indexes, Mass...
Developed for use in a manpower development and training program, these curriculum materials include: (1) occupationally-related language arts and mathematics courses of study (Appendixes A-J), (2) occupationally-related remedial lesson materials for native born illiterates and non-English speaking trainees (Appendixes K-O), and (3) discussion materials for occupationally-related group counseling (Appendixes P-R). Appendixes contain: (1) commercial occupations basic education, (2) distributive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Group Counseling, Illiteracy, Instructional...
These 12 issues of "Exceptional Parent" present a variety of articles and other information relevant to parents of children with disabilities. The January issue provides an annual directory of national organizations, associations, products, and services. Other monthly issues each have several articles relating to a particular theme, including: (1) early intervention, (2) mobility, (3) summer activities, (4) recreational activities and services, (5) telecommunications, (6) teenagers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Child Rearing, Children, Disabilities,...
This bulletin focuses on these topics: (1) Higher education; (2) Some recent movements in city school systems; (3) Constructive tendencies in rural education; (4) Medical education; (5) The progress of dental education; (6) Recent progress in legal education; (7) Art education in the United States; (8) Industrial education; (9) Agricultural education; (10) Progress in home economics education; (11) Progress in kindergarten education; (12) Adult education for foreign-born and native illiterates;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Land Grant Universities, Special Education, Average Daily...
A school-associated violent death is any homicide, suicide, or weapons-related violent death in the United States in which the fatal injury occurred: (1) on the property of a functioning public, private or parochial elementary or secondary school, Kindergarten through grade 12, (including alternative schools); (2) on the way to or from regular sessions at such a school; (3) while person was attending or was on the way to or from an official school-sponsored event; and (4) as an obvious direct...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, School Safety, Violence, School Security, Crime,...
This guide is designed for Russian language training of Peace Corps workers in Russia, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of seven instructional units. An introductory section gives an overview of the Russian language, Cyrillic alphabet, phonology, and morphology. The first instructional unit is intended as a 1-week introductory course, presented as a game with mnemonic aids, many immediately useful phrases and expressions, and pronunciation aids. This unit is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acculturation, Classroom Communication, Community Services, Competency Based...
This document contains the four concluding chapters and index of the Biennial Survey of Education, covering the years 1928-1930. Chapter 4, Statistics of universities, colleges, and professional schools, 1929-30, is made up of three parts: (1) Personnel, receipts, and property (Emery M. Foster and Frederick J. Kelley); (2) Expenditures (Henry G. Badger); and (3) Land-grant colleges and universities (Walter J. Greenleaf). The remainder of the chapters in this volume include: (5) Statistics of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys,...
The 12 participants of Arizona State University's annual graduate workshop in Indian Education were public school teachers, a superintendent, and a student in social work. Prepared by the participants, these 13 papers relate directly to the American Indian's education: "Education for What?", "San Carlos Apache Indians", "The Pima", "The History and Culture of the Havasupai Indians", "Back to School With the Apache Indians", "The Mohave...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indians, Bilingual Education,...
This text book on the Vietnam War is to be used in teaching high students. Each of the volume's 12 chapters is a self-contained unit on an aspect of the War. The chapters are: (1) Introduction to Vietnam: land, history, and culture; (2) America at war in Vietnam: decisions and consequences; (3) Was the Vietnam War legal? (4) who fought for the United States; (5) How the United States fought the war; (6) When war becomes a crime: the case of My Lai; (7) Taking sides: the war at home; (8) How the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, High Schools, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities,...
The following is taken from the Publisher's Note: "Long out of print since it was originally published in 1942 by the U.S. Government Printing Office, this classic work on Federal Indian law, and the whole legal history of Indian-white relations, is here republished in a facsimile edition. It is, as Felix Frankfurter observed, the only book that has ever made sense and order from 'the vast hodgepodge of treaties, statutes, judicial and administrative rulings, and unrecorded practice in...
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Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Control, Education, Federal...
This instructor's edition of a vocabulary textbook for college students, who read at the fifth to eighth grade level, features 25 chapters and teaches 250 basic words. The first and third chapters in each unit contain word-part practices. The second and fourth chapters in each unit contain synonym-antonym practices. The book's last chapter in each unit contains an analogy practice, review, and test. Also included is an answer key, a section on dictionary use, and a word list. The student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education,...
This is one of a set of five handbooks compiled by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory which describes the processes for planning and operating a total Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program. Processes and material are those developed by the original EBCE model--Community Experiences in Career Education or (CE)2. The area of operations to which this handbook is devoted is curriculum and instruction. There are nine sections. Curriculum Outcomes concerns general outcome goals...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community...
Arranged alphabetically by State and by communities within each State, the 1974 report contains employment information on all braodcast units licensed by the Federal Communications Commission with more than 10 full-time employees. The report includes separate entries for the number of full-time and part-time employees, with full-timers being further classified according to higher pay (officials, professionals, technicians, sales workers, and skilled craftsmen) and lower pay (office and clerical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Broadcast Industry, Employment Patterns,...
This primary education curriculum guide was developed jointly by the Iowa and Nebraska Departments of Education to provide educators with a coherent framework to guide local planning for reform of educational programs for children at the kindergarten and primary level. In the belief that the field has moved beyond separate areas of service or curriculum, this second edition of the guide presents content related both to differences among learners and to emergent areas of curriculum throughout...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change, Educational Objectives,...
In contemporary academic literature and in many national curricula, there is a widespread acceptance that critical thinking should be an important dimension of Education. Teachers and researchers recognize the importance of developing students critical thinking, but there are still great difficulties in defining and assessing critical-thinking skills. The multiple definitions of critical thinking indicate the need for further clarification of the concept. An important attempt for clarifying the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Delphi Technique, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking,...
This book contains the following essays regarding sexism and language: "Linguistic Sexism as a Social Issue,""Sexism as Shown through the English Vocabulary,""Sexism in the Language of Marriage," and "Sexism in Children's Books and Elementary Teaching Materials" by Alleen Pace Nilsen; "Gender-Marking in American English: Usage and Reference" by Julia P. Stanley; "Sexism in the Language of Legislatures and Courts" by Haig Bosmajian;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Childrens Literature, Feminism, Language, Language Usage, Legislation,...
This 7,000-word dictionary is designed for English speakers learning Dari. The dictionary consists of two parts, the first a reference to find words easily translatable from one language to the other, the second a list of idioms and short phrases commonly used in everyday conversation, yet not readily translatable. Many of these entries have no adequate translation and may thus provide an insight into the Afghan culture. The list of translatable words gives Dari words in Arabic script and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Idioms, Multilingual Materials, Phonetic Transcription, Vocabulary, Word Lists
Activities and accomplishments are described for a 3-year project which (1) developed and field tested a Career Education Curriculum Resource Guide (K-14), containing materials which can be adapted for use in the classroom setting. (2) compiled and printed a Career Education Consulting Package for statewide dissemination (specific instruction on the process of initiating career education activities), and (3) established career education resource centers in region V secondary schools. The body...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Principles, Administrator Guides, Career Education, Career Guidance,...
The English-to-Haitian Creole (HC) dictionary defines about 10,000 English words in common usage, and was intended to help improve communication between HC native speakers and the English-speaking community. An introduction, in both English and HC, details the origins and sources for the dictionary. Two additional preliminary sections provide information on HC phonetics and the alphabet and notes on pronunciation. The dictionary entries are arranged alphabetically. (MSE)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alphabets, Comparative Analysis, English, Haitian Creole, Phoneme Grapheme...
This document, consisting of 7 chapters, 31 figures, and 360 tables, provides statistical data on most aspects of United States education, both public and private, from kindergarten through graduate school. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) all levels of education; (2) elementary and secondary education; (3) postsecondary, college, university, technical, and adult education; (4) federal programs for education and related activities; (5) outcomes of education; (6) international...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Degrees (Academic), Dropout Rate, Educational...
This volume of the 30th annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents: plenary panel papers; research forum papers; short oral communication papers; and poster presentation papers from the meeting. Information relating to discussion groups and working sessions is also provided. Plenary lecture papers include: (1) Mathematics, didactical engineering and observation (G. Brousseau); (2) A Semiotic View of the Role of Imagery and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics...
This booklet presents a variety of materials concerning the first part of Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes." After a brief introduction to the play, the booklet presents a description of the principal characters in the play, a profile of the playwright, information on funding of the play, an interview with the playwright, descriptions of some of the motifs in the play (including AIDS, Angels, Roy Cohn, and Mormons), a quiz about plays,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Acting, Cultural Enrichment, Drama, Higher...
This curriculum guide to Hawaiian Studies for fourth graders is designed to be used in conjunction with a social studies guide called "Early Hawaiian Life." The curriculum guide is divided into ten units dealing with the following topics: geography; migration-canoe building; land division; society and government--family; society and government--social structure; society and government--religion; food--agriculture; food--fishing; shelter; and kapa (barkcloth). Each unit is preceded by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Culture, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education,...
Newton's Apple is a PBS family science program that explores basic science through high-energy, hands-on demonstrations. This volume is a collection of the teacher's guides from four seasons of Newton's Apple which were originally broadcast from 1991 through 1994. Each of the four seasons in the volume contains 26 lessons and a combination of supplementary materials, including family guides, transparencies, and indexes. Topics covered in Season 900 include Olympic sports, solar-powered cars,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Architecture, Athletics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Elementary...
This curriculum guide contains a 4-week course designed to address the problems students face in making career or job choices and selecting the appropriate high school courses to give them the necessary skills to achieve their career goal. It contains materials for teachers to use in doing the following: assist students in self-assessment, expand the student's knowledge of actual careers available and real job opportunities, help them understand the educational curriculum choices they have and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance,...