PROGRESS IN THE OPERATION OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IS REPORTED. THE PROJECT DREW HEAVILY ON THE IDEAS AND THINKING INCORPORATED INTO TWO EARLIER PROGRAMS CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY. CONCERN WAS CENTERED ON THE IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION OF INDIVIDUALS IN VOCATIONAL AND TEACHING EDUCATION WITH POTENTIAL…

A RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT WAS ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE VOCATIONAL RESEARCH THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH RESOURCES, PERSONNEL, AND TECHNIQUES. IN ADDITION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSALS FOR THE CONDUCT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH BY LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES WAS ENCOURAGED. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES TO DATE…

AN OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION UNIT WAS ESTABLISHED TO STIMULATE VOCATIONAL RESEARCH, TO INITIATE AND COORDINATE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN PROPOSAL DESIGN, TO WRITE PROPOSALS, AND TO ACT AS LIAISON BETWEEN FEDERAL AND OTHER FUNDING AGENCIES. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES…

This publication presents and discusses the program priorities identified by 63 program managers from 10 of the 11 divisions of the New Jersey State Department of Education. The individual program priorities were prepared in response to eight overall objectives established by the State Commissioner of Education. For the purposes of analysis, the…

Presented is a description of the operational procedures of a model resource center for educationally handicapped elementary school children in Colorado and the replication strategy to be used. Emphasized are the differentiated staffing patterns. Appended are tables of statistical data and evaluation forms. (IM)

This annual report of the recently established Alaska Day Care Assistance Program describes the system of state subsidies instituted to encourage local government participation in the delivery of day care services. Established to aid low-income families in providing for adequate child care, the program is administered by the state Department of…

The article presents a positive evaluation of the early childhood education program in California, which is followed by teachers' own assessments of the program. (CD)

Summarized are the findings of a nationwide survey conducted in 1975 to determine the status of industrial arts in States' plans during the first year of industrial arts programs' eligibility for inclusion in vocational education funding. Thirty-eight States included industrial arts in their vocational education plan. (AJ)

A description of the Occupational Exploration program implemented in North Carolina in 1970 for grades 7 through 9 is presented. The Environmental Laboratory, which includes the Agribusiness and Natural Resources Occupational cluster, is emphasized. (LH)

Topics discussed here include definitions of exceptional persons; the rationale of mainstreaming; racial discrimination in special education placement; law, policy, and court litigation; federal and state legislation and state plan requirements; funding special education; and regional resource centers. (DS)

This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)

This review of a previous article (TM 503 836), concludes that: (1) the evaluation methodology was straightforward; (2) simpler data analysis would have yielded the same conclusions; and (3) exclusion of many experimental schools from data analysis and use of post hoc matching and covariance produced misleading results. (CP)

In this article on state-organized programs to reduce rates of juvenile delinquency, programs such as truancy prevention, day treatment, specialized foster care for emotionally disturbed, handicapped, and/or mentally retarded children, community resources projects, and residential treatment are briefly described. (Author/SE)

Reports results of a formative evaluation of a consumer-homemaking program for low-income adults, including program content and procedures, evaluation instruments, progress of paraprofessional and professional staff, participant acceptance, program effectiveness, and implications of the evaluation. (MF)

Discusses what steps were taken by the Cooperative Extension Service in Oklahoma, after the energy crisis began, to help landowners make better decisions regarding oil and gas leases. Oklahoma's Extension educational efforts in mineral rights management have been successful because they met the needs of the people. (EM)