Concerned with changes in enrollment and credit hour patterns, the chancellor of the Kansas City Metropolitan Community Colleges (MCC) created a special Task Force to consider recommendations for marketing strategies for the 1978-79 academic year. The Task Force reviewed regional and district demography, area population trends and density, age and…

Convened to offer a forum for discussion of values education to over 100 representatives of public and private schools, the conference explored moral dilemmas, educational trends, cognitive moral development, and educational objectives. The keynote address by values education exponent Dr. Edwin Fenton (Director, Carnegie-Mellon Education Center,…

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,…

A summary report is presented of interviews with 28 bilingual teacher aides who work in ten elementary Schools Austin Independent School District. The interviews were conducted to provide data to assist the project staff in assessing ongoing activities of the aides as well as specific process objectives. They were designed, therefore, with a…

A summary report is presented of the first of two interviews with a random sample of parents of kindergarten, third and sixth grade students in the project. Undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Parental Involvement Component of the Title VII Bilingual Project, the interviews had a twofold objective: (1) to measure the degree of home support…

Maryland postsecondary institutions were examined to determine duplication of academic programs and possible impacts on student desegregation. The Fall 1975 Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) was used to categorize the academic programs offered by the public and private institutions. Undergraduate programs that are duplicated by…

The document presents checklists by which music teachers and school administrators can evaluate concrete elements of orchestra programs in grades four through 12. The opening sections outline the immediate benefits of having a school orchestra; effects on later adult life of student participation in orchestras; goals of a school orchestra program;…

The final evaluation report provides an assessment and discussion of the FY 1974 activities of the Research for Better Schools' Career Education Program, one of four employer-based career education programs currently funded by the National Institute for Education. The introduction (section 1) provides an overview of the evaluation activities and…

Goal IX of the Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) deals with appreciating human accomplishments. The assessment instruments concentrate on attitudes that measure the degree of value students place on areas of human accomplishment and the willingness of students to explore environments where firsthand experiences are available. The purpose of…

The methods and procedures of education in our schools must be reexamined according to the writers who have contributed to this document. This is most strongly felt in the areas of testing and evaluation for it is these areas that may have the greatest impact on a child's educational career. This document is presented in three sections: (1) An…

The introduction of this report on educational policies in Quebec informs the reader about the present education system of Quebec and emphasizes that "democratization" is the most significant of the policies established in implementing reform from 1964 to 1974. Chapter 1 reviews the educational system as it existed in 1974, providing a…

Missouri's migrant program aimed to: raise the migrant children's educational level to that of other children in their age group; acquire a complete set of educational and health records for each child; screen and refer those children needing health services to the appropriate personnel; instill within parents and children the desire and need for…

The three volume report documents the project to review and evaluate the educational component of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Camp System: the first volume summarizes the project; the second presents in detail the project design, findings and conclusions, recommendations, and guidelines for implementation; and the third volume contains…

Through Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, six programs were funded in Washington, D.C. public schools to meet the educational needs of handicapped disadvantaged children. One of the programs, the Columbia Road Pre-School Pilot Project was designed to serve as an experimental model for early childhood education for…

The first section of the guide contains the text of two speeches dealing with the current challenges of career education and the school counselor, presented at the 1972 New Jersey Regional Career Education Conferences. The second and larger section contains a variety of materials resulting from a series of conferences in 1973 aimed at developing…