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Download full textStapp, William B., Ed. – 1978
This report is an account of the 1978 National Leadership Conference on Environmental Education held in Washington, D.C. in March. The major purposes of the conference were to review recommendations of past environmental education conferences, assess the present situation in environmental education in the United States, and develop a clear set of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Environmental Education, Information Dissemination, Meetings
Larsen, Kent S., Ed. – 1975
Materials in this resource document were compiled for use in a Washington seminar directed to the interests of state and local government to develop strategies for privacy protection. Included are the texts of issue papers and supporting documents in the following subject areas: (1) criminal justice information; (2) public employee records; (3)…
Descriptors: Computers, Conference Reports, Confidentiality, Consumer Protection
Gage, N. L., Ed. – 1973
The Stull Act (after its principal sponsor, Assemblyman John Stull) requires all school districts in California to adopt a uniform set of guidelines for use in evaluating the professional competence of their certificated personnel. The act went into effect on September 1, 1972. In the spring of 1972, it became apparent from newspaper articles that…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Conference Reports, Educational Objectives
Wise, James H., Ed. – 1977
The conference from which these papers were taken was designed to present a balanced cross-section of opinion on the controversial subject of corporal punishment in the school. The papers contained in this volume include a review of the research on the effects of punishment, an analysis of state legislation regulating corporal punishment in the…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Conference Reports, Corporal Punishment, Discipline
Ohio State Library, Columbus. – 1978
The 16 recommendations of the 1978 Ohio White House Conference on Library and Information Services are presented with background information and identification of salient issues. Concerns include the legal structure of public libraries, funding, library services (particularly for those with special needs), public relations, preservation, library…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Conference Reports, Copyrights, Financial Support
Gove, Samuel K., Ed.; Zollinger, Richard A., Ed. – 1979
The activities at the President's Assembly on State Policy Research at the University of Illinois, which was convened to explore a series of questions related to the interaction between universities and the agencies that create public policy, are reported. The report of the assembly, which is a statement representing general agreement among the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Conference Reports, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
Mannix, Thomas M., Ed. – 1976
Contents include: welcome and keynote address (Clyde J. Wingfield); faculty unionism and the threat to American public higher education (Martin J. Morand); academics and collective bargaining (Seymour Martin Lipset); faculty grievance procedures in a non-union context (Sidney Herman); state and federal legislation (Edward P. Kelley, Jr.); in…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Troyka, Lynn Quitman, Ed. – 1977
On March 4, 1977, the Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE) of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Board of Education of the City of New York co-sponsored a National Conference on Minimum Competencies: Trends and Issues. Six papers were presented: "An Overview Regarding Minimal…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Conference Reports, Educational Assessment
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
The State has primary responsibility for public education. It should be the priority for each State legislature, State Board of Education, and chief State school officer to consider what methods can be employed to meet equal opportunity/ desegregation standards, to devise and implement strategies to overcome deficiencies, and, thereby, to assure…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Board of Education Role, Conference Reports, Elementary Secondary Education
Clark, Collin, Ed. – 1975
In June 1975, 100 participants spent a week considering the future of California's libraries. Library trustees, Friends, concerned citizens, and librarians from all types of libraries heard talks by state and local government officials, social planners, and eminent librarians. Topics discussed included library planning, librarianship in general,…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cooperative Planning, Evaluation, Financial Support
1978
The following speeches and a policy statement from a meeting on private higher education are presented: "From Campus to Capital: The Cost of Intellectual Bankruptcy," by Arthur Shenfield; "Educational and Professional Organizations and Their Effective Use," by John E. Horner; "Principles of Lawmaking and Public Administration," by Dallin H. Oaks;…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Church Related Colleges, Collective Bargaining, Conference Reports
1976
On March 11 and 12, 1976, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), and the Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing (CAPT), a project of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), cohosted a Minimal Competency Measurement Conference in Denver, Colorado.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agency Role, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1978
A variety of viewpoints were represented in this symposium for chief state school officials and senior staff of state departments of education. Russell Vlaanderen, Education Commission of the States, opened with a national overview: "The Policy Implications of Minimum Competency Testing: The Case of the Standardized Student." Attorney…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Conference Reports
Strenglein, Denise, Ed. – 1977
Centralized control of budgets and programs, a growing consumerism among students, and collective bargaining are among the issues addressed in a Florida statewide conference on institutional research. papers and reports include: the keynote address; a legislative workshop; a collective bargaining panel; The New College Story as Told by 103 Alumni…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Alumni, Budgeting
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. Council of Graduate Students in Education. – 1978
Graduate students and faculty from within and outside of the University of Pittsburgh community were among the presenters at this colloquium on educational change and challenge. The papers include: Academic Freedom, Anti-Communism, and the McCarthy Era (Steve Aby); The Finnish Contribution to the American Workers' Education Movement (Richard J.…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Aesthetic Education, Basic Skills, College Faculty
