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Download full textNational Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA. – 1986
This report contains two sections: a summary of a conference on state literacy initiatives including the agenda and list of participants, and a series of profiles of the literacy efforts of individual states. The four issues identified and discussed at the meeting were (1) development of state initiatives; (2) coordination and expansion of state…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1976
The 1976 meeting of the Education Commission of the States (ECS) concerned ways to relate education more effectively to the world of work. If states and localities decide to orient education increasingly toward career and occupational goals, changes will be necessary in governance and administration as well as curriculum and teaching approaches.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Woodling, Ruth W., Ed. – 1978
This publication contains the edited text of the proceedings of the September 1976 Conference on Education for Georgia Legislators. Addresses by 20 experts from Georgia and around the country are presented. The proceedings are intended to help legislators, educators, parents, and others interested in deeper insight into the issues of educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, Competency Based Teacher Education, Conference Reports
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1987
Summaries of conference presentations on college savings and prepayment plans and related tax, policy, and social issues are provided. The conference objective was to communicate the issues to constituents with the most at stake: parents, students, and relatives; state and federal legislators and staff; and developers of plans for higher education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
McCage, Ronald D., Ed. – 1974
The proceedings of the conference on outstanding research and curriculum activities conducted by the various State research coordinating units opens with William W. Stevenson's brief examination of alternative research efforts. The remainder of the first half of the document consists of abstracts of the 15 presentations at the conference sessions…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Career Education, Conference Reports, Coordination
Texas Advisory Council for Technical - Vocational Education, Austin. – 1977
This report summarizes the proceedings of the Governor's Conference on Technical-Vocational Education in Texas, which was held (1) to provide a public forum on vocational, technical, adult, and manpower education; (2) to assess developments in these areas since the 1973 Governor's Conference; (3) to examine key issues related to the funding,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Career Choice
Conti, Gary J. – 1982
A 3-day conference was held to generate the goals for Adult Basic Education (ABE) in Texas for the remainder of the decade, to examine barriers to and bridges for accomplishing these goals, and to propose strategies for implementing these goals. During the conference, 19 participants (including directors, supervisors, teachers, university faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Change Strategies, Educational Finance
Martorana, S. V., Ed.; Nespoli, Lawrence A., Ed. – 1978
This report of a National Conference on Regionalism and Regionalization in American Postsecondary Education contains an overview and summary of the final project report, a keynote address, four papers on the implications of regionalism, some reactor comments, an essay on leadership, and four descriptive accounts of operational regionalization…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1978
The proceedings of the 1978 Legislative Work Conference of the Southern Regional Education Board include eight essays on higher education. In the first essay, "Financing Higher Education in the 1980's: Fewer Students, More Dollars?," Lyman A. Glenny outlines nine issues that may affect fixed and variable costs for higher education. In…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, College Admission, Competency Based Teacher Education
Pennsylvania State Council on Vocational Education, Harrisburg. – 1989
This report summarizes the views expressed by 25 speakers and in 13 written reports at the public meeting of the Pennsylvania Council on Vocational Education. Comments are summarized on the following 13 topics: school code regulations; technical institutes; consumer and homemaking education; business education; agriculture education; students with…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Apprenticeships, Business Education, Competency Based Education
App, Anne H. – 1991
This publication summarizes presentations and discussions from a conference that addressed specific issues in the National Assessment of Vocational Education and in the 1990 Perkins Act that mandated the assessment. Introductory materials include a summary of consensus issues from the conference (David Boesel), welcoming remarks (Bruno Manno), and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Correctional Education
App, Anne H., Comp. – 1991
This collection of 22 papers is organized by the five conference topics. "Part 1: Effects of the Perkins Act on Policy and Practice" contains five papers: "Federal Legislation as Rorschach Test: Methodological Issues in Assessing the Effects of the 1990 Perkins Act on States and Localities" (Grubb); "Effects of the 1990…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Correctional Education
