Computer science (CS) education helps students acquire skills such as computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, among others. As these skills take preeminence in the rapidly changing 21st century, CS education promises to significantly enhance student preparedness for the future of work and active citizenship. Based on prior…

In 2010, the California Early Learning Quality Improvement System (CAEL QIS) Advisory Committee recommended a structure for a voluntary quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) that could apply to the state's 11,000 licensed centers and 36,600 licensed family child care homes (FCCHs). The proposed design consisted of an unweighted block system…

State coordinators of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs completed a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, or SWOT, analysis that examined 12 areas within state EHDI programs. For the early intervention focus question, 48 coordinators listed 273 items, and themes were identified within each SWOT category. A…

The second volume of the National Health Council (NHC) final project report for recruitment, counseling, and related activities in the health occupations consists of: three meeting agendas and information on the NHC Committee on Health Manpower; reports on two meetings of the Committee on Inventory for Health Occupations on the Secondary Level;…

The annual report of the State Advisory Council for Vocational Education and Manpower Development and Training addresses the major areas, as perceived by the committee, to be most in need of attention in order to improve the quality of vocational education in Kentucky. These areas are: improved communication with the general public, greater use of…

The report describes a Federally supported education and development program conducted during the 1973-74 fiscal year for members of the Michigan State Health Planning Advisory Council. The program sought to increase: (1) the council members' awareness of and insight into the comprehensive health planning process, (2) their knowledge of the health…

The report provides the framework for developing comprehensive competency-based teacher education (CBTE) for Florida's industrial education teachers based on their expression of specific needs. A research base of projects done by competent educational institutions was utilized. An advisory committee was formed and its composition and activities…

This 10-year followup to an S. M. Davidson and others (1984) study surveyed all 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine the composition and role of state Medicare program Medical Care Advisory Committees (MCACs). Recommendations are given to enable MCACs to be more useful in policy development. (SLD)

The number of vocational education graduates from public schools in Tennessee for 1973-74 is compared to employment needs for the same period. The projected number of vocational jobs was 62,068; public school vocational graduates numbered 50,154. Charts also show whether secondary, postsecondary and adult training programs' graduates for 1973 were…

A summary of a 50-state assessment of the organization, composition, staffing, and operations of State Job Training Coordinating Councils (SJTCCs), conducted through telephone interviews with Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) or SJTCC administrators, produced a sketch of SJTCC procedures and practices. Some of the findings of the summary…

This is the 14th report of the Illinois School Problems Commission, a continuing legislative commission since 1957. The 14th School Problems Commission began its work at an organizational meeting in October 1975. Public hearings were held in early 1976 to identify crucial problems and issues. During the later half of 1976 and early 1977, four…

Presented is the 1974 annual report of the Office for Children, an agency responsible for monitoring and coordinating all services for children in Massachusetts. Among the aspects covered are administrative organization; the development and implementation of a special budget for new and expanded children's services; the formation of 39…

The purpose of the project was to publish a State guide for local directors of vocational education that would facilitate the establishment of general vocational education advisory committees in 115 of the 130 local school divisions in Virginia by 1980. Specific objectives were to: (1) develop and publish guidelines for organizing and operating…

The career guidance advisory committee reviewed both national and State efforts in the area of career guidance and attempted to define and develop the concept. The committee examined concepts that were relevant to the needs of Massachusetts and developed a rough framework on which to build a comprehensive State plan. The report addressed itself to…

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that each state education agency (SEA) establish and maintain an advisory panel for the purpose of providing policy guidance with respect to special education and related services for children with disabilities. This document is a brief summary of survey information received from 48…