This evaluation report is designed to provide a description and interpretation of the effects of local school programs supported by early childhood education (ECE) funds, funds provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA Title I), and educationally disadvantaged youth (EDY) funds. Although these programs…

A detailed account of the establishment of an educational program at Marin County Jail, along with background information, is provided in the document. A discussion of inmate educational programs throughout the country examines inmate needs, facilities, staffing, and funding. Marin County school system interaction with penal institutions, its law…

Local high school programs represent a major change in Alaska's rural secondary school policy. This report examines the type of local high school program desired by the residents of three rural villages as a basis for designing village high school facilities. Each village is described by location, climate, population, housing, health facilities,…

This proposal, presented by Morehouse College for consideration for funding, concerns planning efforts to establish a National Center for the Study of Black Family Life. Ten major objectives to be accomplished by the center through research, education, and practice were established. Attributing the family with having the most important influence…

This chapter summarizes and analyzes all state supreme court and federal court decisions as well as other significant court decisions affecting the realm of higher education. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1974 and reported in the General Digest on or before March 1, 1975. In this discussion, the author attempts…

This bulletin was prepared to acquaint superintendents with changes that may occur in their administrative patterns because of the effect the steadily decreasing number of live births is having on the school population. The available methods of predicting future enrollments in a district are outlined, and the effects a decline may have on facility…

This guide focuses on the conservation plan for an outdoor laboratory. Although the plan focuses specifically on Seaman Outdoor Education Laboratory, the concepts could be applied to any natural area including parks, farms, and school grounds. Along with an introduction and justification, the guide includes the conservation plan that serves as the…

Part 2 of a two-part report describes nine supplemental studies used to test K-MUST, the Kansas Manpower Utilization System for Training. For each study, an introduction, background information, procedures, analysis, and conclusions and recommendations are provided. The studies are: (1) a comparison of Federal matrix manpower needs projections and…

This report describes a study of the impact of certain educational inputs on the rate of growth in achievement for various types of students in Philadelphia's public schools. Data for the analysis were drawn from pupil histories of 627 students from 103 elementary schools, 553 students from 42 junior high schools, and 716 students from 5 senior…

Provided by North Carolina's Division for Exceptional Children are guidelines to assist local school systems in their self-evaluations of programs and services for crippled, deaf blind, educable and trainable mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, gifted and talented, hearing impaired, homebound, hospitalized, learning disabled, speech and…

This book provides practical advice on problems of institutional plant management to physical plant administrators. Areas covered include the role, organization, and facilities of the physical plant department; personnel administration; financial administration; buildings maintenance and operation; custodial services; utilities distribution…

This literature review was designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview and a better understanding of the focus of recent educational needs assessment studies at all levels of education. Few needs assessment studies are similar in terms of the subject matter assessed or the techniques of data gathering. For the purposes of this…

To secure a broader perspective on possible community service programs at Central YMCA Community College (Illinois), and to observe and confirm some of the national trends in post-secondary education, a series of field visits to nine private and six public urban oriented two-year colleges was made during the spring and summer of 1973. The…

Northland Pioneer College (NPC) consists of five mini-centers located throughout Navajo County (Arizona), and extension classes offered in areas where no centers have been established. Because it was financially impossible to create separate libraries to service all these areas, a decentralized library system was needed. The Holbrook Center, which…

This book analyzes and discusses the various aspects of the "Educational Park," the concept of which was originated as an approach to the present-day crisis of the inner city and its public school system. Basically, the Educational Park is conceived as a large clustering of educational facilities serving all the schools on a campus, so as to bring…