A conference on problems of education of children in the inner city considered the functionally retarded child. Recommendations and suggestions for action were made concerning early childhood education, the family, teaching, labeling, educational research, school responsibility, and community participation. (JD)

A Commission on Instructional Technology has been established to assist the nation and to meet some of the most pressing educational needs. The Commission's task was to determine if belief in technology's value for education is justified. The starting point of the study is learning. The value of any technology used in education is therefore…

A research project concerned with college planning for the period 1960-1985 is described. Five basic questions were discussed--(1) what is the outlook for population changes, for the country as a whole and by categories of the population? (2) what is the outlook for jobs, and what are the implications for training? (3) what is the outlook for…

The final report of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) National Teacher Training Study opens with a comment on how little is known about ABE teacher training. Therefore this report is concerned with only the broad areas of need in the field. Four reports have been prepared and issued as a result of this project and are all summarized here. The…

The study was designed as a means of becoming more knowledgeable about potential audiences so that a more effective extension education program could be developed for the Sea Grant program. The major objective was to identify problems and opportunities for an organization with the capability of delivering effective extension education programs to…

The Statewide Measures Inventory is essentially a list of items of information, along with concise definitions and other information of interest relevant to statewide postsecondary education planning and management. It has been designed primarily for use by state level postsecondary education planners and decisionmakers. The primary objective of…

This document presents an overview of the Illinois State University competency based program, "Administration By Competency." In an effort to generalize the approach, various questions are answered: How are competencies determined? How should they be stated? How is level of competency determined? How should competencies be organized?…

This speech concerns higher education in the 1980's and the role of the private institution. Emphasis is placed on: (1) the nature of the new period of change into which higher education must enter, (2) some of the impacts of this period on private institutions, and (3) solutions for the private institutions in the new period. (Author/MJM)

The purpose of analytical models is to reduce complex institutional management problems and situations to simpler proportions and compressed time frames so that human skills of decision makers can be brought to bear most effectively. Also, modeling cultivates the art of management by forcing explicit and analytical consideration of important…

This booklet is the second in a series of five published in connection with the Guam Assessment of Educational Needs. Collectively, the series represents an effort to identify and validate the most critical education needs for the Guam schools so that improved educational opportunities can be developed for Guam students. This document describes…

Dimensions and perspectives of the external degree as a potential thrust for the University System of Georgia, are explored in this report. Emphasis is placed on a definition of terms, significant developments in the external degree movement, the scope of educational decisionmaking required in planning external degree programs, forces and…

The concept of career education embraces the programs referred to as vocational-technical but it also encompasses all other segments of the educational program. In the concept of career education in the community college there are two themes, specialization and regeneration. The specialization theme enables an individual to refine his ability to…

A mathematical model is developed for the expansion of facilities at different campuses of the University of California for a given sequence of enrollment forecasts. Based on total projected enrollments for the University system, the model computes a minimum total cost expansion program, i.e., the stages at which to expand existing campuses or to…

Current approaches and programs toward teaching in the international education area tend to be casual and ambiguous. Two existing problems center on: 1) a lack of conceptual agreement and explicitness of meaning of terms by authors and teachers who in turn convey this vagueness to students; and 2) the lack of sustained concern with teaching…

Oregon's educational needs were identified through 120 in-depth interviews with the general public, educators, students, and dropouts. The result of these interviews was a list of 27 critical needs. An interview instrument was developed around these critical needs, and was administered to a statewide sample of the population of Oregon who…