A description of the Oregon Total Information System (OTIS) project is presented. The purpose of the three year project was to improve education and its administration by implementing and demonstrating a total information system which could provide data processing services to school districts of varying sizes over a large geographic region. The…

An examination of the present status and future potential of cable television (CATV) in South Dakota is conducted. Chapter 1 offers a brief introduction to cable in the State and Chapter 2 discusses the value of CATV to South Dakota. The next Chapter presents a State plan for communications and the fourth deals with the subject of franchising. The…

Education has become one of America's biggest industries. As a result, the public wants some evidence concerning the quality of the educational program. This booklet was written to delineate the role of assessment as an important aspect of a comprehensive accountability system for the nation's elementary and secondary schools. It describes what…

A number of educational finance proposals suggest that the State become the primary collector and dispenser of revenue to support public education. Under such proposals the State would become, in effect, the employer for collective bargaining purposes. Accordingly, this paper deals with representation issues, the scope of bargaining, and problems…

Oregon's Dissemination Program was established in July 1970. The primary purpose of the program was to provide a means through which pertinent, validated information could be made accessible in usable form to assist educators in making better educational decisions. The program was administered by a staff of six, two of whom were assigned to two…

The paper treats career education more as a concept than as a program, an approach that cuts across all program areas and has potential for achieving many stated educational objectives. First, the term "career" is discussed, including the connotation it carries of a purposeful life pattern and of a continuous, integrating process. Second, career…

This report, one of six volumes presenting the results of Georgia's statewide testing program, provides test results for the eight grade by school category and, within categories, by school. The categories, totaling 48 for individual schools and 48 for systems, were devised in an effort to make comparisons between schools and systems more…

This report, one of six volumes presenting the results of Georgia's statewide testing program, provides test results for the eleventh grade by school category and, within categories, by school. The categories, totaling 48 for individual schools and 48 for systems, were devised in an effort to make comparisons between schools and systems more…

This report, one of six volumes presenting the results of Georgia's statewide testing program, provides test results for the fourth grade by school category and, within categories, by school. The categories, totaling 48 for individual schools and 48 for systems, were devised in an effort to make comparisons between schools and systems more…

The New York State Department of Civil Service, in recruiting and placing people in State jobs, is guided by the policy of equal opportunity for all. To determine the effectiveness of the efforts in carrying out this policy, the Governor requested that an ethnic survey of the New York State work force be taken, annually, for 10 years. As the…

The problems of this study was to assess the innovations, if any, that have been made in selected business teacher education institutions to implement the provisions of their state plan for vocational education. Areas of primary concern were: (1) to identify and analyze the changes in the teacher education curriculums for the preparation of office…

These second and third volumes of a four-volume study of manpower in state highway safety programs over the next decade estimate manpower resources by state and in national aggregate and describe present and planned training programs for safety specialists. For each educational level, both total manpower and manpower actually available for…

The fourth annual report on problems of the deaf concentrates in the area of the mentally retarded deaf. Proposed legislation for 1971 is first presented for hearing aids, audiologists and speech pathologists, pre-nursery school education, and a permanent state commission for the deaf. A survey and proposal for the retarded deaf are described as…

The Indians of Maine, descendants of Algonquian linguistic stock, number approximately 1800 and reside on 3 reservations totalling 22,600 acres of land. Most of the reservation land is forested, with important economic and recreational advantages in terms of timber production and hunting and fishing opportunities. In 1965, Maine became the first…

A faculty committee, consisting of members from various departments and from the Audiovisual Center at Washington State University (WSU), investigated the feasibility of establishing a two-way television network in the southeastern Washington area for participants in continuing education studies and for certain graduate classes. The committee…