The National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education (NCFPE) developed a comprehensive analytical framework--a process--to evaluate the alternative financing proposals for postsecondary education. This staff report describes this framework, placing special emphasis on two of its major components--a data base and an analytical model.…

During the period from January 19, 1972 to July 19, 1973, the Portland, Oregon, schools involved in Project Career Exploration 7-10 (PCE7-10) have focused on the goal of providing for every student in grades 7-10 the opportunity to explore, through hands-on experiences, many jobs found in broad families of occupations, with the aim of enabling…

The position paper briefly outlines seven aspects of career education: (1) justice and equality, (2) the State goal, (3) competency-based credentialing, (4) curriculum, (5) services to students, (6) teacher education, and (7) Florida's position. (NH)

An attempt is made to determine whether a procedure requiring each member of a rating group to rank a subset of fifteen goals selected at random from one hundred and six goals would produce results that were, in effect, equivalent to having each member of a rating group rate each of the one hundred and six goals. The ratings of the one hundred and…

The aim of education should be total utilization of the abilities of the entire population. Career education must start early enough for the child to prepare his skills for the world of work. A structured career exploration curriculum is divided into awareness, orientation, simulation, and development. The first step, awareness, is designed to…

This publication examines the purposes and functions of policy as a conceptual focus for the problems and issues of higher education. Emphasis is placed on the conceptual difficulties of policy, distinctive features of policy, and policy functions and issues. The major contention suggests that the purpose of policy is to provide a general…

Career education is gaining acceptance as a way of making education more relevant and more human. There are five levels to the approach: Grades K-6 deals with career awareness; 7-9 provides occupational information and career exploration; 10-14 is concerned with job placement and specialized career education; the post-secondary level involves…

Accountability is being required of all America's institutions of higher education. Gallaudet College, an institution for the deaf in Washington, D.C., feels it has found a solution to the accountability problem in the use of "measurable objectives" in its program planning. The first phase from January 1 through June 30, 1972 of…

This booklet describes a systematic procedure for determining learner needs in the form of a hierarchy of learner performance objectives. A determination is made of the effectiveness of educational programs currently being implemented to meet these needs and of how changes in the programs might more effectively meet learner needs by developing a…

The state's strategy for stimulating constructive change is to help clarify objectives, develop analysis techniques, and stimulate self-renewal. Each of these elements is considered in some detail. The problem of clarifying goals and objectives involves three contexts: the content, the level of specificity, and the individuals or groups to whom it…

The high rate of turnover of college presidents, the scarcity of willing replacements and haphazard recruitment methods are symptoms of a lack of clearly defined administrative needs--one of the most serious management problems in colleges and universities. Directionless institutions in this revolutionary era are likely to surrender to factional…

The values and goals of students from Harcum Junior College (Pennsylvania) a private, resident, all female college, were compared with students from Harrisburg Area Community College (Pennsylvania) a public, non-resident, co-ed college. The two groups of students were compared in terms of their parents' educational background, their educational…

Remedial reading, or the teaching of the ability to decode and comprehend, taxes the skills and ingenuity of the English teacher. This problem, however, must be tackled on a day-to-day basis. Remedial reading programs can be made effective by utilizing the following techniques: a daily 5-minute quiz which embraces previously covered material; a…

Written by an experienced teacher and addressed to beginning teachers, the paper concerns the problems and pleasures of teaching in the '70's from one teacher's point of view. The physical, emotional, spiritual or moral, and intellectual requirements for teaching are examined. Also explored are four broad objectives of the teaching-learning…

In planning new directions for teacher education it is reasonable to assume that education will become more rather than less important in the next decade, that technology will drastically alter our way of life, that there will be a continued trend toward urbanization, that teaching will become more individualized, and that teaching talent will be…