A research bibliography, one of a series from the Education Library at the University of Michigan, lists over one hundred books and six periodicals on the subject of non-traditional education. The materials, appropriate for use by educators, parents, and community groups, date from 1967 through 1972. Free, open, and non-graded alternative schools…

This document describes a new type of college; it is divided into seven chapters. Chapter I describes the Minnesota Metropolitan State College (MMSC) as a college with the entire metropolitan area as its campus, which admits students and awards them degrees on the basis of demonstrated competence and not on the basis of credit hours accumulated or…

This publication, designed to facilitate input of information about innovative instructional materials and activities for k-12 teachers of government in Iowa, is an outgrowth of a March, 1972, conference for social studies specialists. A primary outcome of the conference was the development of an information retrieval system of locally designed…

This federally funded exemplary project in vocational education for an Appalachian county in West Virginia focused on developmental career planning for disadvantaged students in nine county high schools. Specifically concentrating on an integrated vocational curriculum for Grades 9 and 10, teacher-developed units were designed to orient Grade 9…

During the past decade of adult education, the concepts of career education and lifetime learning have increased in importance. Federal involvement in adult education has increased without a conscious sense of direction, and will undoubtedly continue to increase, leading to greater political pressures on administrators. On the other hand, the…

Changes in economics education that have taken place in the California State University system since 1967 are described. The author, Chancellor of the California State University and Colleges, suggests that these changes have created a body of students able to understand public questions and make wise economic decisions. A major portion of the…

Forecast of a 1986 program of educational innovation involving education stamps and student bank accounts is presented. The objectives of the program are to provide more efficient, less expensive, and more equal education. The author maintains that these objectives will be met by allowing average citizens to spend money on an individual basis in…

The manual describes an offcampus intern program for 12th-grade students in political science. Description of the project, Government Responsibility and Student Participation (GRASP), is divided into six chapters. Chapter I, Deciding Whether to Adopt the Model, identifies the need for an intern course and projects presumed student accomplishments…

Classroom activities for high-school students in home economics are provided. Designed to help male and female students gain home management skills without the usual limits of traditional sex-role stereotyping, the activities aim at assisting members of both sexes realize their potential as independent, thoughtful, cooperative, and assertive…

The Upperclassmen Look at High School Survey was administered in April 1975 to randomly selected junior classes, along with the Vocabulary section of the Iowa Test of Educational Development. This survey was administered, along with the freshman survey in October, as a check on student attitude toward the following: new educational concepts,…

The general emphasis of Project LONGSTEP was on the identification of changes in student achievement that occur as a result of intensive educational innovation. This report focuses on three groups of students: those who started out as first-graders, fourth-graders, and sixth-graders in 1970-71. Its primary purpose was to analyze overall…

Proceedings of a workshop conducted by the Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing include: patterns of assessment of experiential learning (John R. Valley); physical assessment of ethnic people of color (Julie Sykes); introduction and integration of health assessment in the associate degree phase at Brigham Young University College of…

Over 400 references relating to the theory and practice of educational reform in developed and developing nations comprise this annotated bibliography. Three objectives are to (1) provide a compilation of the literature on national educational change efforts; (2) stimulate nonbiased inquiry into causes, processes, and outcomes of educational…

Second of a two-part series that identifies probable changes in English instruction resulting from technology's impact on society and schools. Provides a review of five books recommended for considering the source, nature, and direction of trends in hardware, software, and "neural netware," or brains. Reports questions used by researchers on this…

These papers are partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Education at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. The cohort included a variety of licensure areas that represent most levels and content areas of K-12 education. The students were encouraged to keep their questions and hypothesis directed at…