This bulletin contains general guidelines on the Diploma Examinations Program required for all grade 12 students for the 1987-88 school year in Alberta, Canada. The grade 12 Diploma Examinations Program is an integral part of the high school diploma requirements and is intended to develop and maintain excellence in educational standards through…

Provided in this guide are workshop materials which present an overview of the kindergarten curriculum and provide designs for transparencies for use in instruction. The overview discusses: (1) areas of learning in the kindergarten, including learning of knowledge, skills, dispositions (i.e., attitudinal habits), and language; (2) intellectual…

Minimum competency testing (MCT) programs for students are growing in popularity and being adopted by many states. In order to determine the extent of the MCT movement, researchers at North Carolina State University surveyed state departments of education in all 50 states. In updating these data for 1986-1987, it was found that 64 percent of the…

Specific actions that schools, districts, and business groups can take to create effective cooperative programs are outlined and discussed in this manual. The booklet first cites national trends toward increased private sector involvement in education, then describes four activities mandated by South Carolina's Education Improvement Act of 1984 to…

As part of its 1984 school reform initiative, the Maine legislature created the Innovative Education Grant Program. It was designed to act as a catalyst for new ideas, conceived by teachers and principals, to bring new energy to classrooms and schools. From April 1986 through June 1986, 278 programs were put into practice. Descriptions of 23 of…

The Effective Schools and Even Start Act is a bill aiming to increase school effectiveness and to reduce adult illiteracy. This hearing report school effectiveness and to reduce adult illiteracy. This report presents the testimony of witnesses and includes materials which outline the extent to which various states are using state funds and…

To assist school systems in establishing computer competencies for inservice teacher training and personnel hiring guidelines, the North Carolina State Board of Education in 1985 approved the recommendations of a state task force, and identified three levels of computer competencies for teachers (K-12), i.e., competencies needed by all educators,…

Designed to assist Alaskans in making optimum use of the LearnAlaska TV transmitter network, this booklet provides instructions for the operation and maintenance of videocassette recorders (VCRs). After a brief introduction, which lists state film library addresses for ordering an accompanying videocassette entitled "Set Up & Operation…

With the availability of state funding, New York State BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) systems have recently hired school library system coordinators charged with designing policies and procedures for resource sharing among school libraries in the Western New York region. Based on searches of ERIC, LISA, and Library Literature,…

This report represents the first comprehensive summary of child abuse and neglect reporting in Colorado. Section I of this report presents an initial summary listing the number of confirmed and unconfirmed reports of abuse over a 14-year period and a look at key findings based on analysis of confirmed reports. Data and analyses are presented in…

The availability of campus child care, day care needs, and parents' preferences for day care were examined at the 42 public supported postsecondary institutions or districts in Wisconsin: the vocational-technical districts, the 4-year universities, and the 2-year university center system campuses. The districts in Wisconsin were surveyed to…

Intended for state legislators seeking recommendations for improving arts education in Minnesota elementary and secondary schools, this executive summary presents (1) an historical perspective of comprehensive arts planning grants authorized by Minnesota statutes between 1973 and 1984; (2) needs assessment results, including findings of the…

This report details findings of the Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee concerning the strengths and weaknesses of current and proposed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) work programs for promoting self-sufficiency among poor women; the role of support services such as day care; successful innovations in State…

The parental right to select a child's school involves more than the option to choose nonpublic education. This document reviews a number of policy options availaable to public education systems for providing educational choice. Options at the state level include the use of education vouchers, subsidized transfer to selected schools, and…

Held to solicit the opinions of experts regarding the preservation of the brittle books in the nation's libraries, this hearing was intended to determine the appropriate federal, state, and private sector roles; learn the magnitude of costs and who should bear them; and explore what procedures are necessary to insure that selection decisions are…