This document provides an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of five different academic calendars, including: traditional semester, early semester, quarter, trimester, and "4-1-4." The present California State Code defines the academic year of the California Community Colleges as 175 days, based on the K-12 standard. This…

The eight-year longitudinal study was conducted by the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) district, Buffalo, New York to determine the costs, benefits, and effectiveness of vocational education in that region. The study consisted of three phases plus a comparison with academic programs in the district. The phases included; (1)…

Photographs and descriptions of four projects using fabric to enclose large spaces are published so that administrators and designers looking for ways to build recreational facilities can consider these innovative shelters. Three of the four examples in this publication are air-supported structures: University of Santa Clara, Charles Wright…

Policy recommendations on tuition and fees as a proportion of educational costs are presented. The composition of tuition and fees in Washington, the basis of "educational costs," and the current and past relationship of tuition and operating fees to estimate educational costs are discussed. Also included is an inventory of the tuition…

This State of Tennessee Annual Evaluation Report on programs, prijects, services and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year 1973 is organized into seven parts. Part One is an "Introduction". Part Two, "Process and Outcome of Title I Instructional…

This report on Alabama programs, projects, services, and activities funded in whole or in part under Title 1 of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 1973 is organized into two parts. Part 1 is organized into nine subsections, including an "Introduction" and discussions of the following topics: statistics for…

The Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) is one of the national laboratories of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. CBRI has applied the techniques of partial prefabrication to school building programs in Uttar Pradesh, the state having the largest population in India. The plan provides that the elements of a basic…

Alternative approaches to the building of monographic bibliography files for an on-line data management system using minicomputers at the University of Minnesota Libraries' Twin Cities Campus center are described. Secondary and primary sources of the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) II records are considered--including Blackwell-North America,…

Twelve different conversion plans were delineated and evaluated in the performance of this study effort. An indepth technical, financial, and cost/benefit analysis was included. One plan was determined to be distinctively more cost-effective than any of the other plans because it provided a technically feasible system that assured the maximum…

Initiated in the mid-sixties under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Uniform Migrant Student Record Transfer System (UMSRTS) was designed to maintain ready accessibility via computer data base to the health and academic records of migrant children. The National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children (NCEMC)…

The objective of this study was to establish a criteria and model for comparative evaluation of manpower educational programs. The criteria developed deals with resource allocation in manpower education programs and how well those programs meet the needs of industry. In the proposed model, an occupation is reduced to its basic skills, which are…

This is a survey bibliography designed to familiarize those interested in planning with the problems, issues, institutional contexts, and substantive content of the broad area of planning that affects aspects of the physical environment whose modification by man has significant effects on social welfare. The bibliography is organized in three…

The feasibility of developing cooperative arrangements for sharing exotic foreign language serial titles among the health sciences libraries of California was investigated. Preliminary circulation counts indicated that 74 percent of the 77 titles counted had circulated twice a year or less and that the health sciences libraries do maintain…

Broad educational objectives and recommendations characterize this longrun planning report. Assuming that the goal of education is to help each child to realize his potential as a human being, producer, and citizen, the investigating committee recommended State legislation covering planning of and timetables for school integration, new teacher…

With a view toward improving allocation of funds, this study analyzed the ordering of agricultural extension publications during 1965-67 by the 95 agricultural Extension staffs in Tennessee. Ten variables in ordering behavior, and four relating to programs, were considered. Data from 1,559 order forms were reported in numbers, percentages,…