This bulletin provides a foreword to the Program of Studies series published by the Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools. This series outlines the unified curriculum for students from kindergarten through high school. A statement of educational goals of the system and a discussion of educational standards and requirements for graduation from…

Educational goals state broadly and in long-range terms what it is hoped the educational process will achieve, but not how those goals are to be achieved. Goals are preferably set before educational needs are assessed. Goal setting is most effective when ten suggestions are followed: (1) identify and analyze strengths and weaknesses; (2) involve a…

BECAUSE OF THE EVER INCREASING EXPANSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL CHANGES, TEACHING CHILDREN TO DISCOVER (DEFINED HERE AS THE ACQUISITION OF AN ABILITY TO FORMULATE AND SOLVE PROBLEMS) SHOULD BE GIVEN CONSIDERABLE SIGNIFICANCE AS AN EDUCATIONAL GOAL. THE PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT IS (1) TO CLARIFY CERTAIN ASPECTS OF TEACHING CHILDREN TO DISCOVER,…

The traditional concept of the university is being challenged today by students, faculty members, and the general public. The news media have tended to aggravate, inflate, and distort university events. In some cases this kind of reporting has made public figures of those student leaders who attempt to make the university an instrument of…

The Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Commission has formulated a statement as the guiding philosophy for its deliberations on Minnesota's long-range, comprehensive higher education plans. The Commission's basic position for viewing higher education in Minnesota during the next 10 years involves (1) the development of human resources through…

This conference, on the importance of the humanities in a society that is becoming more urban, youthful, and leisured, noted that humane ideals must not be lost in the quest for technical expertise. Junior colleges, relatively free from academic tradition, can respond to this expectation. The objectives of this conference were (1) to foster an…

Adult educators view remedial education, higher education, and lifelong learning as the purposes for extending adult education programs through satellite communication. Thanks to communication satellites, the parameters of the adult education learning will be broad enough to include all adults regardless of age, sex, marital status, minority group…

Activity from July 1 through September 30, 1965 was concentrated on developing objectives for the instructional and guidance programs. The instructional objectives sought were statements of successful student performance which include the criteria of success and the conditions under which the performance is to take place. Criteria specified that…

The primary purpose of this curriculum research project was to devise an instrument that would reveal general information about the philosophy, objectives, and curriculum of a school without requiring in-depth analysis of any particular subject-matter area. The instrument presented here was developed through a group-process consensus approach by…

When implemented by local school districts, the guidelines in this document should result in a process that will produce a consistent link between educational outcomes and planning. By June 1981, each local school district must complete each of the following steps. (1) Develop essential student outcomes for both state-mandated and locally…

This study examines the relationship between university faculty and administrator attitudes toward collective bargaining in terms of their view of the goals and the functions of the university. The faculty and administrators in a single, large, multipurpose state university were sampled to provide three test groups: administrators, faculty with…

The quality of postsecondary education institutions should be enhanced by more effective procedures for evaluating and reporting to the public on the achievement of the stated goals and objectives of each institution. This paper considers the use of an educational audit as a means of meeting this need. An educational audit is defined as an…

As technology continues to increase the complexity of our occupational society and relationships between education and work become closer and closer, it becomes necessary to create for youth a world in which educational institutions and the business/industrial community collaborate to provide an environment, a set of learning experiences, and a…

In this paper the National Assessment of citizenship's objectives, procedures, exercises, and findings are considered as a source of implications for further research in the area of social studies. First, the methodology of National Assessment can be used as a model for developing objectives, and for devising exercises to measure attainment of…

A review of literature dealing with educational accountability and a discussion of the history of the movement, this paper suggests that the National Assessment of Educational Progress was partly a result of the public's growing concern about the quality of education and the increase in local, state, and federal taxes needed to support education.…