This final volume of a four-volume study considers the need for personnel for traffic control, police traffic services, pedestrian safety, school bus safety, and debris hazard control and cleanup. Training requirements to meet national objectives are discussed, in terms of curriculum, staffing, student recruitment, facilities, equipment and…

Legislative alternatives for providing a mechanism within State government to plan and coordinate early childhood programs are presented and analyzed. The alternatives addressed are: (1) placing early childhood responsibility in an existing agency; (2) creating a new office of child development as an independent State agency; and (3) creating a…

Developed by classroom teachers, university professors, and personnel from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, this guide is an effort to assist teachers in locating and utilizing safety materials as well as to assist them in developing well-balanced safety programs for the children and young people in the state. The preschool and…

The objectives of this study were two-fold: (1) evaluating the conservation content in the elementary, intermediate, and secondary grade textbooks used in 13 western states, and (2) researching, recording, and reviewing the textbook selection procedures. Part I indicates that textbooks are selected either by a state agency or the local school…

A second-year interim report on a three-year cooperative study involving a regional sampling of 41 Kentucky school districts is presented. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop methods of sampling and annually assessing the extent of learners' needs and to stimulate educational programming based on the reduction of learners' needs. Major…

A report of a Community Resource Development (CRD) study in the Extension Services of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Missouri is presented. The three states represent different stages of development of CRD work, and are differently organized. The purpose of the study is to compare the three Extension organizations. Extension personnel of relative…

This research was conducted to provide a background for writing a plan for a state-wide day-care system. The findings of the study are presented. Existing statistical resources in Alabama and the 1970 federal census data were used in preparing this report. In addition, empirical data was gathered throughout Alabama to project the state-wide need…

No library in Nebraska can be self-sufficient; and, what Nebraska badly needs is a pool of knowledge, a total information source. Nebraska's problem is how to make information in one part of the state available to a user in another part. A parallel problem is how to make this information available as quickly as possible. The requirements for a…

All of the libraries in Tennessee were surveyed in an effort to determine both the manpower needs and the classification of all library personnel on the basis of the newly-adopted categories in the American Library Association (ALA) policy on library education and manpower. The purpose of the study was to reveal information pertinent to library…

The article lists the topics of 45 inservice workshops offered by the nine Texas teacher education institutions and by cooperating agricultural companies. Their variety is considered sufficient to keep Texas vocational agriculture teachers adequately supplied with the competencies necessary to keep abreast of curricular changes. (Author/AJ)

Finance reform in education is discussed with emphasis on state, local, and federal funding and court litigation. The focus is on equal education for poor communities. (DS)

This report provides figures for seven states of the cost of student transportation following desegregation. (Author/AM)

The study compared states identifying either many or few students as behaviorally disordered on the variables of (1) average per pupil expenditure, (2) size of minority population, (3) number of students identified as learning disabled. No significant differences between the two groups of states were found for the three variables. (Author/DB)

Examined ability of social, economic, and educational variables to predict screening referral rates among 398 school districts in statewide preschool screening program. Results from two studies indicated that screening referral rates were not related to broad social, economic, and educational factors in any simple way. Suggests implications for…

Investigated whether block grants improve decision making through the decentralization of control of social programs to state governments. Found that department bureaucrats have sought to protect the new flexibility from encroachment by elected officials through the rationalization and systematization of decision-making procedures. (Author/ABB)