This is a series of four situation reports prepared by the International Planned Parenthood Federation for informational and consultative purposes. The countries reported on are Fiji, Indonesia, Israel, and the Philippines. Some of the latest statistical figures for each country are listed. They are area, population and growth rate, birth, death,…

Approximately one-fourth of the older persons in this country live below the poverty threshold. Information, questions, and answers are provided for administrators considering using their school's facilities for serving meals to older persons. (Published by American Association of School Administrators, 1801 N. Moore Street, Arlington, Virginia…

This survey of the educational offerings in the Forensic Sciences was initiated to identify institutions and agencies offering educational courses and/or programs in the forensic sciences and to evaluate the availability of these programs. The information gathered by surveying members of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences reveals that…

This paper describes the freshman orientation procedures and activities of 17 public-supported institutions with student populations of 9500 or more. In addition, large, public-supported institutions are compared with all other institutions (N = 93) studied on proportions of informational, social, and intellectual activities offered in orientation…

Cooperative work experience programs were examined in terms of their scope and success in meeting student and community needs. Teacher-coordinators, administrators, and students participating in work programs at eight colleges offering work programs were interviewed. Students from industrial technology classes at a 4-year college were surveyed to…

This directory of university and college programs for personnel in deafness lists, alphabetically by state, programs for training teachers, programs for training professional specialists, and programs for training interpreters. Complete contact information (names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail, Web site) is provided. (DB)

Participative training in a four-part mode. (Editor)

There is now a need, just like in industry, for quality assurance in education, for injecting systematically planned and formal processes, precise definitions, objectivity, and measurability in education. The demand for educational excellence in industry is "out there," and companies in more advanced countries are partnering educational…

Reported are results of two surveys of gifted and talented education in New York State during 1974-1975, one sent to each local public school district in the State and another sent to each of the 46 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). Major findings of the survey include: 92% of Boards of Education do not have a policy statement…

This collection of 107 abstracts of sex equity projects currently funded by the National Institute of Education (NIE) and 122 abstracts of NIE-sponsored sex equity publications indicates NIE's activities in the area of sex fairness and describes the results of NIE's research; it is intended to facilitate communication among researchers and others…

Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 25, 1972, Atlanta, Georgia. (DS)

A plea is made for reallocation of resources within departments to recognize the importance of different kinds of higher level work. (DF)