Author, governor of Pennsylvania, proposes the creation of a National Education Trust Fund to operate just as the Federal Highway Trust Fund does, on a revolving self-liquidating basis. (Author/MB)

Proposes building new medical schools to double enrollments, thus increasing the quality of U.S. health care, removing a source of stress on unsuccessful applicants for admission, and simultaneously providing employment for many basic science instructors. (AL)

The United States Commissioner of Education urges fuller national commitment to adult and continuing education; he suggests that a national center and local councils be created for information dissemination and program planning. (LY)

Tongue-in-cheek advice to school administrators on methods of turning down employee requests not clearly covered by existing policies and regulations, and requests for initiating new procedures and programs. (AN)

The purpose of this article is to describe some specific uses for CATV systems, and to propose that most discussion relative to CATV has concerned itself with broadcast television, not CATV at all." (Author)

Includes a review of the elements of ideal project contracts, some suggestions concerning contract negotiation, and a sample contract from a recent development project. (Author/JEG)

The 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York. This year's EDM conference was highly competitive, with 145 long and short paper submissions. Of these, 23 were accepted as full papers and 37…

This scenario discusses a situation in which a proposal has been published by a consortium of foundations for an "external" evaluator to evaluate a replication at two new sites of a program they have been funding for many years. A proposal is received from Dr. Porto-Novo, who has been the external evaluator of the initial program for about 10…

This article reports on methodological approaches to evaluate the relevance and quality of educational research publications. In the first section it focuses on the ISI Social Science Citation Index and shows that this standard instrument for bibliometric measurement is insufficient for the representation of European educational research. In the…

The Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) is a bold approach to improving student learning by encouraging teachers, parents, and the community to work collaboratively to introduce innovative projects that address local needs. Initiated in 1999 by the Alberta Government and its partners, AISI provides targeted funding to school…

THIS POSITION PAPER ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION BEGINS BY SUGGESTING 4 GENERAL GOALS FOR THE EXPERIENCES WHICH THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM SHOULD PROVIDE FOR CHILDREN. THESE EXPERIENCES SHOULD BE DESIGNED TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, TO PRODUCE SOME UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF OUR WORLD, TO DEVELOP…

A State Education Department-based agency or Teachers Reserve is needed to canvass New York for potential teachers to stem the rising teacher shortage and to develop and maintain a program for training or retraining any individual desiring a teaching career. A statewide meeting of colleges, school administrators, and women's service groups is…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAMS PROPOSED IN "LIBRARIES FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY," BY LOWELL A. MARTIN AND MARY V. GAVER (NEW JERSEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER, 1964.) RECOMMENDATIONS COVER (1) INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION ACTIVITIES TO BE UNDERTAKEN AMONG AREA…

This document contains three sets of rough notes designed to help community education programs. These ideas are rough notes that are intended to spell out some of the problems and issues that confront any researcher tackling the new problem of community education programs. These ideas are addressed to State Educational Agencies (SEA) interested in…