The study finds that North Carolina is only partly prepared to take maximum advantage of the knowledge explosion which is taking place in the United States. Although the state has a great many libraries, and some very eminent ones, its library resources are still largely unrelated in a systematic way, thus making it impossible for the information…

To attempt to assert that assessing educational need is a concept new to education would be naive. On the other hand, there is little question that this most critical component of planning and decision-making has over the years largely been left to the somewhat capricious whims of intuition and educational "guessmanship." This paper is a…

The Statewide Planning Project for Vocational Rehabilitation Services was established by the Governor of the State of Connecticut to develop a master plan for vocational rehabilitation services. The entire state was considered and the project included citizens, public and private agencies, and representatives from professional groups. Five…

This report encourages the citizens of each State to seek the improvement of their education, and assists them in locating and utilizing effective and appropriate means for achieving a high level of educational quality. Six topics focus on State leadership in planning educational improvements: (1) forces and factors that affect planning, (2) State…

This federally funded 13-month inservice teacher training project began with a 3-day staff training workshop, which served to orient a superintendent, local project coordinator, and guidance counselor from each of four schools to the career education concept. Each of the four project schools then held a local inservice training workshop, involving…

This curriculum guide is for the first phase of Ohio's Career Development Program, the Career Motivation Program for Grades K-6. Intended for use by elementary school teachers in the classroom, the guide is divided into three major parts: Grades K-2, Grades 3-4, and Grades 5-6. Each unit contains developmental objectives, behavioral objectives,…

This document is the Foreword, Preface, list of the English Textbook and Framework Implementation Committee, and Introduction of a larger document concerned with the English Teacher Specialist Program of the California State Department of Education. The Introduction provides background information, including a brief history of departmental…

In October of each year, the Research and Statistics Section of the South Dakota Department of Public Welfare studies the racial makeup of its recipients to report on the proportion of American Indians, the state's largest minority group (32,402 or 4.9% of the state's population according to the 1970 census), receiving assistance under state…

The Utah project was funded in June, 1970, and refunded from June, 1972 to June 1973, to provide Technical Assistance to educators in sparsely settled rural areas of the State. Technical assistance includes information, consultative and program development services. Three full-time Field Agents are based in Regional Cooperative Service Centers and…

The purpose of this revised handbook is to supply information and provide answers to many of the questions pertaining to the administration of migrant education projects in North Carolina. The Federal program is described in terms of legislation affecting migrants, definition of a migratory child, and contracts for studies and surveys. Also…

Findings of Phase I (Pilot Program) of the Pennsylvania Assessment of Educational Quality program are presented in relation to the design of the phase, the rationale for measurement, the procedures for data collection and data processing, and the results of the first analysis of the data. Tests were given to 1413 fifth graders and 1285 eleventh…

This study gathered information in regard to the extent to which public school districts maintaining a secondary school either operated or planned to develop an adult education program. Information was gathered from all 329 public school districts maintaining secondary schools. Of the 329 schools, 132 indicated that they had an adult education…

Materials produced following a seminar held on the orientation to educational evaluation, conducted for ABE Summer Institute directors and allied staff, are provided. This material relates to common perspectives for effective evaluation that can become part of the evaluation methodology used by the summer institute directors. The planning for the…

Programs and activities for young children in Texas are reported, based on data collected from the state agencies who administer these programs. Two sections are presented, the first dealing with early childhood development in the state, and the second with a survey of state agency programs. A history of federal and state involvement is followed…

SIX AREAS OF EXCEPTIONALITY SERVED BY PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAMS ARE PRESENTED, INCLUDING MENTALLY RETARDED (BOTH EDUCABLE AND TRAINABLE), BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED, DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING, ORTHOPEDICALLY OR NEUROLOGICALLY HANDICAPPED, EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED, AND MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED. INCLUDED FOR EACH EXCEPTIONALITY IS A DEFINITION, CRITERIA FOR…