A research project was conducted cooperatively by the New York State Education Department Bureaus of Distributive Education and Occupational Education Research to determine whether the present secondary programs in New York State provide sufficient career information and adequate preparation for young people to obtain employment in the travel…

Cabletelevision (CATV), if properly applied, can increase and enhance educational opportunities. FCC regulations allow free educational access to cable television. CATV has the capacity to dedicate more than one channel to education; this can provide a greater variety of educational programing with repetition throughout the day. A second…

An assessment of the future Native Alaskan educational program is presented, showing a complexity of major social trends, technical developments, and accumulating evaluative and projective data that are profoundly challenging the existing educational structures and rationales. The quantity of significant concerns appears endless, ranging from…

The ultimate effectiveness of career education curricula can be determined only when the children who have been influenced by them become young adults. However, decisions must be made now about which career education paradigms should be translated into curriculum materials, and which materials already developed should be further refined,…

The purpose of the literature review is to outline the basic considerations involved in designing and conducting meaningful evaluation of training efforts in work organizations. First to be examined are basic questions in training evaluation strategy: the barriers to conducting evaluation of training efforts, the reasons for conducting such…

This publication was developed in response to inquiries received from teachers and association leaders about the effect of a year-round school schedule on the livelihood and working conditions of teachers. It is intended to assist association leaders who deal with the problems related to (1) local negotiations or policy agreements for the…

This report describes a survey which was conducted to determine community junior college presidents' views of how to evaluate remedial programs. Questionnaires were mailed to 166 schools in the New England and Middle Atlantic States. Since no institution forwarded a copy of any formal evaluation guidelines, it is suggested that very few of the…

1973-74 approximately 1,100 Indian students in grades 1 through 8 participated in Project HEED (Heed Ethnic Educational Depolarization) in Arizona. The project target sites were 59 classrooms at Sacaton, Sells, Peach Springs, San Carlos, Topowa, Many Farms, St. Charles Mission, and Hoteville. Primary objectives were: (1) improvement in reading…

This report presents the results of an effort to translate future-oriented research and other thinking into a structured set of program goals for National Institute of Education (NIE) consideration. A variety of societal trends are presented to illustrate the conclusion that new roles of education and educational R&D are of central importance…

The educational goals, as adopted formally or tentatively by the respective States, have been compiled in this single document. The goals were obtained by a survey conducted by the State Educational Accountability Repository (SEAR), a program of the Cooperative Accountability Project (CAP), administered by the State of Colorado. The predominant…

American Indian people, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the nation all have a common interest in assuring a quality education for Indian children. No education program can be truly effective, however, unless it has the support and the involvement of those directly benefiting from it--the Indian students, parents, and communities.…

This report examines how the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) process might be utilized in an institutional research format to bring about future formalized assessment and planning in undergraduate and graduate teacher education. With the focus on the recent NCATE reaccreditation process at the University of…

An evaluation was conducted of a regional program designed to implement in each of eight selected school districts during the 1974-75 school year a career education program that had been previously tried in a school setting. A pre- and post-evaluation design for students and staff members was used. Students and staff members in pilot career…

The seventeenth Lake Okoboji Educational Media Leadership Conference addressed itself to the various applications of media accountability to the total educational process. The keynote speech emphasized the media professional's responsibility to meet changing needs for educational improvement. Seven work committees studied and reported on…

It is suggested that the American system of formal education be included in discussions of problems of productivity, both as a contributor to the problem, and as an instrument to be used in seeking solutions to the problem. Career education, in particular, is viewed as being capable of making contributions toward increasing productivity. Two basic…