In devising training programs for gerontological service providers in Pennsylvania, attention was focused on determining to what extent inservice training improved the quality of or skill with which services were ultimately delivered. The Gerontology Manpower Project is recommending a client or consumer-oriented approach, as evidenced by project…

The purpose of the tenth grade limited pilot project of the 1975-76 Michigan Educational Assessment Program is to perfect instruments, testing, and reporting procedures for a future statewide assessment at the tenth grade level. The development of assessment materials for the grade ten assessment program began with the selection of performance…

This publication represents a model for the Natural Science Education Curriculum for grades five through eight in Delaware's schools. This guide is meant to serve as a minimal standard for natural science education, but at the same time strives for maximum output of the natural science program. The guide is based on the processes of science…

Presented are guidelines, suggested methods, and forms for the screening, evaluation, placement, and dismissal of children into and out of special programs for the handicapped in South Carolina. Offered are guidelines, forms, and publicity announcements for screening in the community and school. Provided are the definition, identification…

This recital of the status of the several components of the Florida Plan for Equalizing Educational Opportunity in Public Higher Education is descriptive of some of its developments to about March 1975. The plan projected its greatest impact on desegregation as occuring within the first two years of its five-year course, but with the continuing…

Monitors are provided with step-by-step directions on how to administer Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment Questionnaires to elementary school pupils. They are told what materials are needed, how to keep materials secure, and what to do if a student misses a session. Monitors are given suggestions for questionnaire administration and…

The 1974-75 directory lists members of the staff of the Division for Exceptional Children, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and provides names and addresses of city and county coordinators of services for crippled, emotionally disturbed, educable mentally retarded, gifted and talented, homebound, hearing impaired, hospitalized,…

The document represents a conceptual approach through which the application of proven and experimental ideas and practices can be formalized into a total instructional system for all grade levels. The concept points to the need for change in organizing and teaching for living in the real world. The second in the series, the document provides…

Assessed is the functioning of the Metropolitan Child Advocacy Committee established by the Oregon State Children's Services Division to provide evaluative and arbitrative services for children who did not fit easily into the normal social service framework. Case studies of two disturbed children whose cases came before the committee are…

This annotated bibliography consists of general citations regarding the state-higher education relationship up to 1972. Citations are listed in alphabetical order with brief annotations accompanying each entry. (MJM)

This prospectus prescribes a "general sense of direction for the University of Hawaii in the 1970s." It discusses: (1) the need to provide higher education for all who desire it; (2) the rapid growth since statehood of the state university system and prospects for continued growth; (3) the growth and purposes of the community colleges;…

This report contains recommendations for specific actions necessary to improve the system of higher education in South Carolina. It recommends (1) allowing the College of Charleston to become a state supported college; (2) organizing a separate system of junior colleges; (3) encouraging cooperation between the University branches and Technical…

This report of the Master Plan Committee on Public Administration is part of Phase III of the Illinois Statewide Master Plan for Higher Education. Chapter I summarizes the Committee's 14 recommendations. Chapter II is the introduction. Chapter III describes in some detail the nature of the public service's present and projected needs for persons…

This report of the Master Plan Committee on Legal Education is part of Phase III of the Illinois Statewide Plan for Higher Education dealing with graduate and professional education. Chapter I, the introduction, describes present legal education capacity. In chapter II the State's future legal education demands are discussed, and in chapter III…

This document discusses a recent New Jersey act that provides funds for paying a percentage of secular educational services in nonpublic schools. Recent State and U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with the constitutionality of such aid to nonpublic schools are described. (JF)