The booklet provides some guidelines and suggestions around which career guidance programs may design their standards. It discusses and briefly outlines some recent legislation, publications, speeches, and committee actions which deal with the objectives and methods of career guidance. It lists 10 assumptions which should be considered when…

The manual was designed to help local education agencies in the state of Washington plan education programs for young handicapped children. Addressed in terms of goal, rationale, critical subcomponents, and evaluation procedures are eight components: administration, child find, educational programs, parent/family involvement, community…

The handbook contains ideas, worksheets, and sample forms to assist in the administration of volunteer programs teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to refugees. Chapters address: (1) planning (finding a coordinator, planning the program, assessing the need, and defining the volunteer's job); (2) recruitment (locating volunteer teachers,…

This report, the first in a three-volume study evaluating federally-supported day care in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, contains a discussion of various issues related to the use of federal standards for day care services and presents four optional strategies for upgrading the quality of day care in the four states. Each strategy includes…

THIS REPORT CONTAINS EIGHT PLANNING RECOMMENDATIONS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCEDURES FOR THREE PLANNING PHASES OF A PROJECT TO DEVELOP A CONTINUOUS PROGRESS EDUCATION CENTER. THE COMPLETED CENTER WILL OFFER A NONGRADED CURRICULUM TO ABOUT 3,500 RACIALLY INTEGRATED STUDENTS AT THE PRIMARY, INTERMEDIATE, AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVELS. COMMUNITY…

A study was made of the Washington Agricultural Extension Service from 1912 to 1961 to identify and interpret the changing administrative structure, program content, methods and techniques, relationships with other organizations and agencies, fundamental changes in ways of deciding educational content, influences of the Extension Service on…

The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members or candidates in school board elections on the role and function of school board members and on the programs, services, and staff of the state school board association. Access to information and resources useful to board…

The Washington State Council for Postsecondary Education was required to examine the educational functions and the administration of the Joint Center for Graduate Study (JCGS), Richland, and also upper-division educational services to the Tri-Cities area of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick, Washington, by Washington State Senate Resolution 1975-130…

Described in this speech are five growing FLES programs in the State of Washington that reflect in their distinctive structural and content patterns the particular philosophy of the different school districts in which each has developed. In each description mention is made of (1) enrollment and district participation figures, (2) grades included…