This booklet is intended to inform school district officials, school planners, and manufacturers of the Bureau's criteria for adequate housing. Part 1 discusses the portable classroom impact, presents data about portable classrooms, and states the Bureau's policy regarding portables. Part 2, performance specifications, is presented to clarify the…

In this study a review was made of more than 140 publications which deal with the occupational and social adjustment of rural youth in the Southeastern region. This review primarily focuses on publications that concern: (1) the changing economic environment of rural youths, (2) their migration patterns, (3) their educational system, (4) their…

This paper proposes that a more flexible approach to the development of teaching groups, accompanied by the necessary changes in staff and facility utilization, would help solve problems arising from declining enrollments in elementary schools. Such problems presently occur in many elementary schools in Western Canada. The problems of educational…

This report delineates the data and the analytical procedures necessary for comparing educational demonstration programs. Used as a means of encouraging the introduction of new practices into the educational process, demonstration programs and their effectiveness depend, in part, on the quality of the data about the program and its availability to…

The extra expenditures for students requiring special attention in public schools, e.g., the financially disadvantaged and the culturally different, are estimated. Also provided are cost estimates for professional help given to the mentally gifted and the handicapped students (speech impaired, mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, deaf, and…

More and more secondary schools are becoming interested in introducing their students to computers and computer concepts. A central problem for such schools, however, is obtaining reliable computer service with capacity for all the students who are interested, but at a cost the school can afford. Although many schools use commercial or small-scale…

The fourth booklet in a second series of subject presentations intended to advance the effectiveness of small business management is presented. The lecture is designed as the basis for a presentation to the businessman in nontechnical language. The Lesson Plan is an outline of the material covered which may be used as a teaching guide or as a…

Ten chapters that present and evaluate alternative models for State school finance plans and for Federal aid, and school fiscal policy recommendations comprise this document, Volume Five of the NEFP series. Volume One of this series deals with educational needs, Volume Two with economic factors and education, Volume Three with various aspects of…

Results of a study of the costs of providing day care services are presented. The sections of the report are as follows: 1. Introduction; 2. Issues in Day Care Cost Analysis--use of cost information, cost structure, classification of day care types, organizational level to be addressed, total vs. per-child costs, economies of scale, diversity of…

This 2-part document is designed to aid school districts in the implementation of a planning programing budgeting system. The first part of the manual contains (1) statements of policy, (2) a master flowchart, (3) organization and functions of a PPBS system, (4) a flowscript of procedures, (5) job outlines, and (6) supplementary appendix material.…

Training evaluation and student achievement measurement literature is reviewed with primary emphasis placed on studies reported in the last 10 years. Recent trends in training evaluation and student achievement measurement are presented. Factors relating to this topic, such as statistical methods, course development methods, training techniques,…

The research project documented in this book is about the allocation of educational resources for secondary education in Great Britain. It re-examines some current assumptions about the allocation of resources in educational administration and in schools. The research attempts to test how far specific or dynamic demand affects the release and the…

Development of a basic information system for vocational education through Project EDNEED (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data) is summarized in this first volume of a five-volume final report. Objectives of the project were to (1) determine the extent to which selected data questions represent the vocational education…

This evaluation of a federally funded economics curriculum project reviews acquisition of learning outcomes, success of content and teaching methods, perception of curriculum change, and facilitation of decision making. Over 10,000 elementary and secondary school students in Illinois were exposed to economics through the specially developed World…

This report is concerned with suggestions for translating changing educational requirements and community needs into appropriate school facilities that are designed, or changed, to be cost beneficial and to conserve energy. Planning guides are offered for the construction and the improvement of elementary and secondary schools. Some preventative…