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The Mythology Of Reading: I--Sight Words, Patrick Groff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is significant to note that the teaching of "sight" words was not one of the "persistent questions on beginning reading" which a carefully- selected group of experts recently chose to discuss (1). Indeed, from what one knows of this topic it would have been surprising to find the notion that young children should be first taught words as "wholes" being given critical examination in any such discussion. This is because the validity of instruction in "sight" words is accepted without question by almost all of today's experts in reading instruction.

Western News, July 3, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: "Newsviews" Criticizes Children's TV, Michigan History Revealed in "Voices", Job Openings Listed, How to Avoid Waiting in Line, Doctoral Examinations Scheduled, Summer Hours Posted for Libraries

University Magaizine Vol. 1 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Letters To The Editor • WMU China Trip • Campus Scenes • Entertainment • President's Club • Alumni News • Mentor-Mentee Program • Meet Charles Starring • Bronco Sports • Class Notes • In Memoriam

Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 15, issue 4.

Barriers To Knowledge For Practice: The Casework Effectiveness Dilemma, Alan Siman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the social work community there exists an acknowledged need for evaluating the effectiveness of casework services. This need developed and was sustained over time because of pressure exerted by the profession for internal accountability: understanding practice to improve intervention and insure professional growth. But more recently, evaluation endeavors arose from pressure to demonstrate external accountability: the need to prove the validity of casework services. This shift was produced by the change in casework financing from private voluntary contributions to public tax dollars. Claims made in the early 1960's that expansion of casework services could reduce existing, and prevent future, …

The Welfare Calculus Allocations And Utilization Within The American States, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the history of the American states, the attitude toward "welfare" had been fundamentally ambivalent. On the one hand there is a great thrust in this country toward charity, and toward helping the poor. Much is given each year to United Funds across the country (860 million in 1972-73), and the Christmas listing by the New York Times of the 100 "neediest cases" results in much spontaneous offering of aid. On the other hand, Americans are singularly suspicious of institutionalizing this impulse. These suspicions leave the United States behind other comparable countries in providing social welfare benefits. Indeed, so suspicious …

Program Research As Social Practice, Harris Chaiklin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

What is done with the information developed by any researcher involves ethical and political considerations out of his control. In administrative research the sponsor has been able to dictate all conditions. We believe that this has contributed to the crisis in confidence about whether or not developing knowledge makes a difference in solving the problems of this world. It is time for professional societies to take more responsibility for the behavior of their members and to provide them with more protection.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Welfare Calculus: Allocations and Utilization Within The American States - JOHN E. TROPMAN, pp 416
• The Politics of Funding: Human Needs and Social Welfare - ROBERT F. KRONICK, pp 436
• The Socially Constructive Aspects of Outside Agency in Community Decision Making in a Rural Area - BARRY R. GORDON, DANIEL I. RUBENSTEIN, pp 451
• Evaluating Explorations and Demonstrations for Planning in Criminal Justice - LEONARD RUTMAN, pp 460
• Client Costs and Early Discontinuance from a Community-Basec Treatment Program - RONALD A. FELDMAN, MORTIMER GOODMAN, JOHNS. WODARSKI, WALLACE J. GINGERICH, pp 469
• Barriers to Knowledge for Practice: …

The Politics Of Funding: Human Needs And Social Welfare, Robert F. Kronick

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Sociological theory has provided two models that attempt to explain social power and decision making in America, the elite model (Mills) and the pluralist model. Mills saw power in America like particles dispersed in a triangle--with more and more power at the top, but more people at the base of the triangle. For Mills there was a powerful elite that ruled almost like a monarchy and decision making on all fronts was vested in them. Rebellion as utilized in Merton's paradigm would turn this triangle upside down in setting up new goals and new means, as well as distributing power …

The Socially Constructive Aspects Of Outside Agents In Community Decision-Making In A Rural Area, Barry R. Gordon, Daniel I. Rubenstein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The "outside-change agent" is dangerous, something to be feared (based on past experiences, long since blurred by boredom and powerlessness) and not taken into the community. The outsider offers few, if any, tangible immediately useable resources -- only promises and fancy talk. Limited experience has taught the Appalachian that promises fade into misery and fancy talk to poverty. The self-fulfilling prophesy of inhospitality and disbelief in oneself, turn the Appalachian against the change agent and challenge the agent to leave the area out of self-felt persistent futility.

Evaluating Explorations And Demonstrations For Planning In Criminal Justice, Leonard Rutman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

This paper has emphasized the importance of evaluative research as an integral component for both explorations and demonstrations, particularly for its contribution to planning in criminal justice. In so doing, an attempt has been made to differentiate the purposes and, consequently, the appropriate research strategies for evaluating these projects. The research of explorations aimed to facilitate the process of conceptualizing and operationalizing "innovative" services into testable demonstrations. To increase the validity and generalizability of individual demonstration projects, replications in different places under varying conditions are needed. According to Wholey, however, many small studies have been …

Client Costs And Early Discontinuance From A Community-Based Treatment Program, Ronald A. Feldman, Mortimer Goodman, John S. Wodarski, Wallace J. Gingerich

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In social work circles client withdrawal from a treatment program commonly has been labeled as "discontinuance". Discontinuance rates have been inordinately high for both casework and group work endeavors, ranging in some instances to 59Z of all clients following the first interview (Aronson and Overall, 1966; Empey and Erickson, 1972; Goldstein, Heller, and Sechrest, 1966; Levinger, 1960; Overall and Aronson, 1963). Discontinuance represents an obvious and essential concern for social work for one overarching reason, to wit, treatment interventions cannot be implemented should the client(s) withdraw from the therapeutic relationship. Additionally, as some investigators have shown, discontinuance represents a focal …

Western News, June 26, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Salary Adjustments Await Appropriations, Gernant Announces Retirement, Presidential Assistant Honored, Bookstore is Closed, Board Appoints New Department Heads, Retired Biology Professor Dies, University to Host Mathematicians, Freedom Train Will Stop in Kalamazoo, Job Openings Listed, New Baseball Coach Selected, WMU Cited in Congressional Record

Western News, June 19, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Will Meet Tomorrow, Orientation Begins Sunday, Open House Tuesday for "Mrs. J", Gorski Named General Manager, Job Openings Listed, WMUK-FM to Broadcast Special Concert, Graduate Assistant Needed

Western News, June 12, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: A Reminder for Academic Departments, Campus Calendar, Instructional Position Openings, Parking Lot Will be Repaved, Central Stores Will Close, Job Openings Listed, Parking Lot Will be Repaved, Final Chamber Concert Next Tuesday

Western News, June 5, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Noted Reading Expert Coming, Economy Conference Here Saturday, Ticket Sales Begin Next Week, Instructional Position Openings, Job Openings Listed, Ensembles to Perform Tuesday, Mathematician to Speak Here, Annual Emeriti Picnic is June 15, Canadian Prep Star Signs, Use the Slow Option, Departments Can Save Money, Open Ticket Sales for Fall Series

Bulletin: Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 1975-1976, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• University Calendar • Board of Trustees • Administrative Officers • Administrative Groups • Admission • Degrees • Degree Requirements • General Education Requirement • Student Planned Curriculum • Undergraduate Curricula and Approved Majors • Major and Minor Requirements • Teacher Certification • Student Fees • Academic Regulations • Student Academic Rights: Policies and Procedures • Student Services • Student Financial Aid and Scholarships • Buildings and Grounds • The Honors College • College of Applied Sciences • College of Arts and Sciences • College of Business • College of Education • College of Fine Arts • College of General …

Faculty Publications 1973-74, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1973-Ii is the twelfth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

Western News, May 29, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Chandelier Installed in the Oaklands, Upward Bound Starts 10th Year, Job Openings, Announce Winners of Fulbright-Hays Awards, Workshop for Women Again Offered, English Examination Dates Listed, Office Name Changed, Campus Calendar, Applications Now Open for Child Care Center

Western News, May 22, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: York Named Theater Director, Report on Board of Trustees Meeting, Student Center Weekend Schedule, Announce Competition for Grants, Budget Limit Causes Bulletin Cutback, Trustees Establish Guidelines, Faculty-Student Recital is Tuesday, Job Openings, Instructional Position Openings, Comedy Announced for Spring

Western News, May 15, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Enrollment Continues to Climb, Guy; Doc; Rich and Vikki Coming Here, Name Change Announced, Faculty Bargaining Team Named, Claims Representative Schedules Visits, China Tour Group to Report, Board of Trustees Meets Friday, Western Hosts MAC this Weekend, Faculty Senate Takes Hiatus, Math Colloquium Announced, Campus Group Elects Officers

Western News, May 8, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: TV production wins top award, Art exhibition continues this month, C.E.T.A. job requests reported, State will assess service charge, Announce English examination dates, Freshmen given parking privileges, Accountants meet here Saturday, Offer special prices for printing, Metric conversion seminar slated, Tennis team plays at home this weekend

Threshold 1975, Seventieth Edition, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Academics • Administration • FALL • Features • Fall Sports • Service Organizations • WINTER • Features • Winter Sports • Groups • SPRING • Features • Spring Sports • Seniors • Closing

Tenth Conference On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 10th Conference on Medieval Studies (May 4-7, 1975).

Western News, April 24, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Inauguration; Commencement Saturday, Reish Heads P.B.K. Group, Medieval Conference Here May 4-7, Student Telephone Talkathon Sets World Record; Helps Burn Center, Dr. Grotzinger Gives Final Address As Outgoing Faculty Senate President, Carnegie Recital Hall Concert Culminates Brass Quintet Tour, W.M.U. Students To Tour N.Y.C. Art Galleries; Museums; Studios, Delehanty New Herald Editor

Western News, April 17, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Summer Hours Under Study, To Close Parts of Two Campus Streets from April 28-Sept. 1, Pro/Con Union Panel Today, Set Library Break Hours, To Install Ratliffe as President At State Speech Conference Here, Elsasser Award To Nancy Diehl, Midwest Business Communicators To Meet Here This Weekend, Name Advisory Committee For Physicians' Assistants, Plan Backpack To Isle Royale

Faculty Recognition Dinner 1975, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recgonition Dinner

Tuesday, April 15, 1975

Honored Retirees:

• James O. Ansel
• Clara R. Chiara
• Theodore L. Carlson
• Rosalia A. Kiss
• George E. Kohrman
• A. Edythe Mange
• Calyton J. Maus
• James W. Miller
• Clarence N. Van Deventer

Western News, April 10, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Cite Children's Theater Play, To Hold Tenure; Promotion Decisions Pending Contract, Invite Campus To Inauguration, Set Year-Round Hours, Set Foreign Language Tourney, Encourage Students To Register Now for Fall Because of Changes, To Celebrate Debate Anniversary, Collegiate Singers Perform Sunday, Track Team To Tennessee, Four Philosophy Faculty Honored, People To People Invite Cagers To Tour Scandanavia in August

Western News, April 3, 1975, April 3, 1975

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Offer Bus Service to Malls, Festival of New Music April 3-5, Research Services Has Open House, Faculty Recognition Dinner April 15, AAUP Elects Council; Officers, Canterbury Tales Here April 15-19, 'Spring Fling' Ends Saturday, Western Moves Temporarily to Maple Hill Mall this Weekend

University Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• President's Message
• Campus Scenes
• Criminal Justice Program
• Annual Report to Investors 1974
• Alumni News
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam