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Chrismer, John M. – 1979
This document reports a needs assessment study designed and conducted to provide South Seattle Community College (SSCC) with information about the present and future educational, occupational training, and cultural needs of the total community served. Results of the survey are divided into chapters covering a specific population of the community…
Descriptors: Business, College Students, Community Needs, Community Surveys
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). – 1976
The report contains 39 speeches by cultural affairs ministers at a 1976 Council of Europe conference in Oslo, Norway. The focus is on four themes: (1) the challenge of cultural policy in a changing society, (2) cultural policy as an instrument for improving the quality of life, (3) encouraging artistic creation, and (4) European cultural…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Citizen Participation, Conference Reports, Creative Development
Ireland, Jackie – 1979
College community services, traditionally funded by the levy of special purpose taxes, have been threatened by the passage of Proposition 13 and the resultant abolishment of permissive taxes. Survey data show that the average budget cut for community services was at least 50%. These cuts resulted in: (1) a 76% increase in "fee" courses…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Budgets, Community Colleges, Community Services
Gemmill, Lester B. – 1977
Designed to meet the needs of those working with Title IV, Part A programs of the Indian Education Act, 396 selected books, films, records, newspapers, and magazines are listed in this catalog. Since the greater of the entries have been suggested by Indian people from across the nation working with Title IV programs and pertain to tribes in every…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, Annotated Bibliographies
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1978
In just 30 years the approximately 25,000 Canadian Inuit moved from traditional hunting and trapping to a multifacted, multimillion dollar economy based on tourism, arts and crafts, and renewable resource development. The rapidly changing Inuit world brought positive changes such as compulsory, better-quality education and improved health, as well…
Descriptors: American History, Canada Natives, Cooperatives, Cultural Background
NOSTRAND, HOWARD LEE – 1968
STANDARDS ARE PROPOSED FOR STUDENT UNDERSTANDING IN THE SOCIOCULTURAL COMPONENTS OF A LEVEL II LANGUAGE COURSE, OR AFTER THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF A LANGUAGE IN HIGH SCHOOL. BRIEF STATEMENTS OF STANDARDS FOR LEVELS I, III, AND IV ARE PROVIDED AS BACKGROUND. IT IS ASSUMED THAT NO ENGLISH WILL BE USED IN CLASS, AND THAT CULTURAL INSIGHTS WILL BE TAUGHT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Audiolingual Methods, Bibliographies
Reed, Horace B. – Skidmore Alumnae Quarterly, 1967
A residential program for 150 disadvantaged junior high school students from both urban and rural areas of New York was conducted at Skidmore College. A part of Programs to Excite Potential (PEP), this pilot project is based on the hypothesis that a multisensory art experience can stimulate academic motivation and strengthen the self-confidence of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Behavior Problems, Communication Skills, Cultural Enrichment
Maynor, Waltz; Thompson, Vernon R. – 1974
Major priority areas established by the American Indian (Lumbee) Parent Committee of the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Program for Robeson County, North Carolina were: remedial reading; additional vocational education; special guidance programs; accelerated training for gifted; specialists in math; and cultural enrichment…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, American Indians, Counseling, Cultural Enrichment
Medford Public Schools, MA. – 1969
Operation RISE (Recreation-Instruction-Service-Enrichment) was an ESEA Title I Program comprised of services to 660 (from grades 11-12) educationally disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students of Medford, Massachusetts during a six-week period in the summer of 1969. In this period each student was given remedial instruction in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Educational Diagnosis, Educationally Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Education
Phelan, John, Ed. – 1969
Defining censorship as any control that limits the intended content of any communication, 10 essays explore the phenomenon of censorship, its sources, its forms, and the manner in which it operates in the areas of politics, religion, aesthetics, and sex. Focused on the varied relationships of censorship to society and the individual, essays deal…
Descriptors: Censorship, Commercial Television, Communication Problems, Cultural Enrichment
Wichita Unified School District 259, KS. – 1969
The Wichita Program for Educationally Deprived Children, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, directed itself to correcting reading problems of and attendance aide activities for elementary and junior high school students. The present program involved over 13,000 students in 43 schools. Additional art, music, physical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Center for Urban Education, New York, NY. Program Reference Service. – 1969
This bulletin describes the New York City Children's Community Workshop School, the school being founded on the premise that children learn best through concrete activities which relate to the experiences of everyday life. Serving a mixed racial population of Black, Puerto Rican and caucasian students, the students (five and one-half to 11 years…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classes (Groups of Students), Community Schools, Cultural Enrichment
Gaitskell, C. D., Ed. – 1969
The report in this issue of Curriculum Bulletin documents extra-curricular and after school activities adopted by Canadian urban communities in Ontario to combat cultural disadvantagement and reading deficiencies among inner-city children, pre-school through junior high school ages. The projects described in the metropolitan areas of Hamilton,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1974
The General Accounting Office (GAO) undertook this review to test the effectiveness of the Upward Bound program, which is administered by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's (HEW) Office of Education (OE). This program was designed to provide low income students who are potentially successful but inadequately trained, with skills…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Bound Students, College Preparation, Compensatory Education
Leon Soto, Eron de – Bulletin of the PSMLA, 1972
This paper discusses the influence of Indian culture on the creation of Mexican folklore to the end that the inclusion of such knowledge in classes where students are studying Spanish as a second language will make those classes less formal, more interesting, and more meaningful. The author provides many examples of Indian cultural traditions…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Cultural Background, Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment
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