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Download full textAlaska State Dept. of Health and Social Services, Juneau. Div. of Family and Youth Services. – 1992
Participants, at a conference convened by the Division of Family and Youth Services in Alaska on November 7th and 8th, 1991, began the development of a framework for a statewide plan for runaway and homeless youth. With the assistance of Division staff and the Northwest Network of Runaway and Youth Services, over 100 professionals and citizens…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Homeless People, Runaways, State Legislation
Orr, Sally; Haskett, George – 1985
This conference report addresses the issue of parental leave, particularly maternity leave at childbirth and parenting leaves for fathers and mothers after childbirth. Growing interest in this area is attributed to the dramatic change over the past 10 years in the labor force behavior of women. Currently existing national and employer policies for…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Federal Legislation
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
Clark, Catherine P. – 1985
This document reports the proceedings of a 1985 conference on preventing the legal problems that could grow out of the implementation of career ladder and merit pay programs for teachers. The contents of the report include a welcome by Preston C. Kronkosky; an overview by Virginia Koehler of the goals, characteristics, and demands of career ladder…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Court Litigation, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKlee, Linnea; And Others – Child Welfare, 1992
Recommendations concerning California's efforts to provide for the health needs of its children were developed at the California Conference on Health Care for Children in Foster Care. The conference was organized to discuss California's implementation of the Child Welfare League of America's Standards for Health Care Services for Children in…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Health, Child Welfare, Conference Proceedings
Scott, Laurie – 1978
Discussions at the National Consortium on Testing conference are summarized. Updates on recent and upcoming events are given by Jeff Schiller (National Institute of Education), Doug Whitney (American Council on Education), John Maxwell (National Council of Teachers of English), Dorianne Almann (National Science Teachers Association), Eric Gardner…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
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
Perry, Katye M., Ed.; And Others – 1985
These combined proceedings summarize presentations of two conference programs designed to address state-mandated student achievement issues. Dr. Terrel Bell delivered the keynote speech at a teleconference focusing on a broad perspective of competency testing. He discussed testing problems, as well as positive aspects such as comparison, diagnosis…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Economics, Educational Policy
Schechter, Jan – 1981
Representatives from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas discuss the issues surrounding teacher and student competency and accountability. For each state, they review legislative policies and actions and the programs of the state education department regarding the use of competency and accountability standards. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary 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
America's New Immigration Law: Origins, Rationales, and Potential Consequences. Monograph Series 11.
Cornelius, Wayne A., Ed.; Montoya, Ricardo Anzaldua, Ed. – 1983
Twelve papers presented during the Fourth Annual Earl Warren Memorial Symposium, which focused on the forces that shaped the pending Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1982 (known as the Simpson-Mazzoli Bill) are given. Included are "The Political Economy of Immigration" (Zolberg), "Of Borders and States: A Skeptical Note on the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Employer Attitudes, Equal Education
Association of Mexican-American Educators, Inc., Redwood City, CA. – 1978
Officially incorporated in 1965 to advocate for equal opportunity for all, especially students of Hispanic ancestry, and greater opportunities for Hispanic professionals at all levels of the teaching field, the Association of Mexican American Educators, Inc., held its 13th annual conference October 26-28, 1978. The five position papers included in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bilingual Education, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
Bender, Louis W., Ed.; Clampitt, Joyce A., Ed. – 1975
The state agency represents the interface between the statewide education system and the governmental and external bodies that would influence it. About 55 state agency staff members from all over the east coast attended an inservice workshop that attempted to measure some of the new dimensions of postsecondary education and to equip participants…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Planning, Federal Legislation, Higher Education
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
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