For more than two decades, tax-credit scholarship (TCS) policies have helped American families provide their children with the learning environment that meets their individual needs. Now available in 19 states, nearly 300,000 students nationwide use tax-credit scholarships to attend the school of their family's choice. TCS policies create an…

This law-focused resource booklet is intended to help secondary level students learn about the civil law portion of Iowa's judicial system. The materials are designed to help students understand how to deal with conflict in a peaceful and orderly manner and how to cope with decision making in personal law situations as related to the family, the…

This guide was designed to be responsive to societal changes and to help young people learn how to live, learn, and make a living. The first chapter contains an introduction to and overview of the total guide and was written for a broad audience, including parents, school board members, administrators, and teachers. It emphasizes that quality…

To help teachers and administrators evaluate and improve their reading programs, standards of excellence are presented for seven program components: administration and organization, student assessment, instruction and management, instructional materials, evaluation, staff and staff development, and community involvement. Procedures are suggested…

The preface to this document explains action by the Iowa legislature mandating that all schools in the state teach human growth and development to students in kindergarten through grade 12 and notes that education concerning Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is one of the components which are mandated.…

Information contained in this resource manual is designed to help educators become more familiar with career opportunities available to high school graduates in the local (Des Moines) labor market, and employer requirements for entry into these career areas. Fifteen occupational clusters are investigated: Agribusiness and natural resources,…

This publication seeks to provide Iowa teachers, school administrators, and others with a framework and perspective on developing programs in environmental education. The basic principles of environmental education are presented as a foundation for school programs. Strategies are identified to illustrate a framework within which existing school…

Developed by a comprehensive career education project in the Des Moines Independent School District, this teaching guide presents career education activities designed to facilitate student self-awareness in relation to career decisions. Goals and objectives in outline form present a framework of student outcome objectives regarding self-concept,…

With their emphasis on due process, these model rules and policies can help schools safeguard the rights of students and ensure that schools are more certain of the facts when all other alternatives have failed and it is necessary to dismiss or expel a student. Local rules and policies based on this model should help to keep both the rights and…

Presented is a non-technical account of the geological appearance and history of the state of Iowa. Included are Iowa's landscape features, geologic events, and processes that shaped the landscape. Maps and numerous illustrations picture the events and landforms described. Each of the state's seven principal landform regions is discussed in…

The exemplary project report describes in detail the development of a definition of career education, the concepts of the career development model, and the four phases of the career education objectives: awareness (primary level), accommodation (intermediate level), exploration (junior high level), and exploration and preparation (high school…

Presented by the Iowa Department of Public Instruction are recommendations for comprehensive hearing conservation services and educational programing for hearing impaired (HI) pupils. Part 1 consists of Iowa's Rules of Special Education which are arranged under 10 divisions: authority, scope, general principles and definitions; methods of…

This document is the presenter's guide to SO 008 871. The document is the result of three and one-half years of effort to improve social studies in the secondary schools in Iowa. Perspectives, part one of the two-part series, presents information and background to aid in the reform, innovation, and evaluation of social studies programs. This…

Prepared in recognition of the Bicentennial, this historic guide of Iowa is intended to supplement materials prepared by the Iowa Curriculum Division. It provides, in one convenient reference, information for use by teachers, students, tourists, and others interested in Iowa's history. Up-to-date information is given on historical societies,…

The Iowa State Board of Public Instruction recognizes its duty to aid in the provision of multicultural education stated in these guidelines. The purpose of the guidelines is to provide guidance and assistance to local school districts in the development and implementation of multicultural education programs. The board urges the cooperation of all…