This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include NY. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. Syracuse Univ., 1964, Tobia Bressler, Magdalena M. Rood, Faith Dunne, ROBERT DE KIEFFER, Joseph Lawlor, Washington American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Charles E. Johnson, and Boulder Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
(1979). State Requirements for High School Graduation: Communication Skills. Technical Note. This paper contains descriptions of documents setting forth the minimum communications skills competencies required for high school graduation in seven states: Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Utah. It then describes the procedures used to compile a synthesized list from those documents for use in a project to assess the need for post-elementary communication skills instruction. The list of skills is appended. Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Graduation Requirements, Minimum Competencies
(1995). Bridging Anthropology and Native People, Winds of Change. Zuni students from Twin Buttes High School (Zuni, New Mexico) made a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology addressing the age-old conflict between Indians and anthropology. The presentation, entitled "Zuni Students Look at Frank Hamilton Cushing," examined the career of a famous ethnologist who spent four years at Zuni in the 1880s. Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Anthropology, Attitude Change
(1989). Assessing Language Proficiency: More Than One Way To Skin a Cat. Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, Number 12, Insights on Educational Policy and Practice. Alternatives to standard language proficiency testing of bilingual or language minority students are discussed in this educational policy bulletin. The New Mexico strategy is described, which uses multiple assessment techniques to identify students' home language, assess oral English proficiency through standardized testing and teacher observation, and measure students' content skill areas included on state competency tests. Recommendations and implications for policy and practice at the state, local, and department of education levels are presented. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
(1972). Social Change and Teacher Education. Proceedings of the Biennial School for Executives of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. (15th, University of Virginia, August 16-22, 1970). This is a compendium of papers from this week-long session. The keynote paper, of the same name as the booklet title, was written by the Honorable Joseph M. Montoya, senator from New Mexico. Other topics discussed are multicultural education, the need for individual involvement in school-community relations, campus change, a forum on the National Institute of Education, and accountability and social change. [More] Descriptors: Community Change, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Social Change
(1967). Pre-Test Report on National Head Start Evaluation. This pretest report on the National Head Start Evaluation Project gives data on ethnicity and ages of children enrolled in four Head Start centers in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, and describes the present status of evaluation at these centers. Completed pretests, proposed evaluation instruments, and available pretest data are presented. Appendices, which make up two-thirds of the report, give pretest distributions of scores on the Stanford Binet and distributions of chronological ages by location, ethnicity, and sex. Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education, Intelligence Differences
(1980). Options: A Career Development Curriculum for Rural High School Students. Southwest Version Adaptation Packet. The field-tested adaptation package for the Southwest version of the four-unit career development and life planning curriculum for rural high school students consists of selected pages and case studies from the basic teacher's guide and student activity sheets, adapted to the Southwest; most of the specific examples are from New Mexico. Adaptation packages are also available for the Northwest, Northeast, and Appalachian South rural regions of the country. [More] Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills
(1977). A Strategy for the Systematic Followup of Graduates of Personnel Preparation Programs. The procedure is described for a followup of the graduates of the University of New Mexico Department of Special Education; which was conducted in order to evaluate the academic programs. The components are comprised of: developing survey instruments; maintaining a correct mailing list; obtaining basic followup information; obtaining extensive followup information; and analyzing and reporting results. The substeps within each component are discussed. Questionnaires used in the followup study are appended. Descriptors: College Graduates, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
(1967). ADULT BASIC EDUCATION, NUMBER 1. CURRENT INFORMATION SOURCES. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ADULT BASIC EDUCATION CONTAINS 38 INDEXED ENTRIES, MOST OF WHICH ARE ALSO ABSTRACTED. SUCH TOPICS AS READING INSTRUCTION, PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY, TEACHER ATTITUDES AND CHARACTERISTICS, MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, REGIONAL NEEDS, PROGRAM PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION, TEACHER TRAINING, AND LITERACY EDUCATION FOR ENLISTED MEN AND NON ENGLISH SPEAKING MEXICAN-AMERICANS, ARE REPRESENTED. ALSO NOTED IS A COLLECTION OF ABSTRACTS OF RESEARCH STUDIES CONDUCTED IN NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, NEVADA, UTAH, IDAHO, WYOMING, AND COLORADO. [More] Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies
(1959). THE PREPLANNING TITLE VII CONFERENCE. THIS REPORT IS A TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS OF A PLANNING CONFERENCE HELD AT BOULDER, COLORADO IN SEPTEMBER 1958 FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESIGNING A LARGER CONFERENCE IN APRIL 1960. SPECIFICALLY THIS WOULD DEAL WITH MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TELEVISION, RADIO, MOTION PICTURES AND RELATED MEDIA FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES IN THE MOUNTAIN PLAINS STATES OF ARIZONA, COLORADO, IDAHO, KANSAS, MONTANA, NEBRASKA, NEW MEXICO, NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TEXAS, UTAH, AND WYOMING. Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Television, Films, Instructional Films
(1973). The Traveling Seminar — A Creative Workshop, Catalyst for Change. The New Mexico Research and Study Council felt workshops could be fun as well as interesting and educational. In 1972, a conference tour bus, including a library, open and closed circuit television, and other necessary audiovisual equipment, was obtained and the traveling seminar operationalized. Live activities were conducted in the built-in conference room over a built-in public address system. Descriptors: Administration, Innovation, Instructional Improvement, Public Schools
(1989). An Annotated Bibliography of Kiowa-Tanoan, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. Approximately 90 citations are included in this annotated bibliography on the Kiowa-Tanoan languages: Kiowa (Oklahoma) and Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa (New Mexico and Arizona). Both published and unpublished works are included. Among the sources are the following publications: American Anthropologist; Anthropological Linguistics; Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology; Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society; International Journal of American Linguistics; and Studies in Linguistics. Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Annotated Bibliographies, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar
(1972). College Vacancy Survey. This document provides a listing of vacancies for college freshmen and transfer students in 2- and 4-year colleges in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. All vacancies reported are for the fall term, 1972, at the 287 colleges and universities that returned the questionnaires. Specific information regarding application deadlines is given when available. [More] Descriptors: Admission (School), College Admission, College Choice, College Freshmen
(1990). Modern & Classical Languages: K-12 Program EValuation 1988-89. This evaluation of the modern and classical languages programs, K-12, in the Albuquerque (New Mexico) public school system provides general information on the program's history, philosophy, recognition, curriculum development, teachers, and activities. Specific information is offered on the different program components, namely, the elementary Spanish program and the middle and high school language programs. Information on each of these programs is presented, including a program description, number of students served, curriculum guides, instructional materials, methodology, and inservice teacher training. Descriptors: Classical Languages, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
(1964). HELP THROUGH LEARNING WOODWORKING. TWELVE HAND TOOLS BASIC TO WOODWORKING ARE ILLUSTRATED AND DISCUSSED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR SAFE USAGE AND MAINTENANCE. INSTRUCTION IS ALSO PROVIDED IN THE COMMON USES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOOD, HOW TO BUY LUMBER, AND HOW TO READ A DRAWING. EXERCISES ARE INCLUDED WHICH ENCOURAGE USE OF BASIC SKILLS IN SPELLING, WRITING, AND GENERAL MATHEMATICS. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY SOCORRO PUBLICATIONS, HOME EDUCATION LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM, 131 ADAMS, N.E., ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 87108. Descriptors: Adult Education, Drafting, Guides, Hand Tools
(1968). Population Characteristics of Selected Ethnic Groups in the Five Southwestern States. Population statistics based on the 1960 Census of Population are presented for Negroes, American Indians, persons with Spanish surnames, and "other whites" in the Southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Some 1950 Census data are included for comparative purposes. Detailed tables present information on age, social characteristics, comparisons between males and females, residence, school enrollment, educational attainment, family characteristics, and economic characteristics by ethnic group for the individual states. [More] Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, American Indians, Blacks