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Hughes, Meredydd, Ed.; Richards, John, Ed. – 1975
A key issue in educational administration in England at present is the interrelationship between professional responsibility and public acceptability, and between professional responsibility and political control. These papers show how the conference focused on this issue and the question, Should the education service in the future continue as an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Management by Objectives
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Alexandria, VA. – 1994
This monograph summarizes outcomes of a forum addressing strategies to improve special education program evaluation efforts and orient policymakers, administrators, and advocates to the benefits of program evaluation as an integral part of program improvement. The forum also addressed barriers restricting evaluation of program effectiveness…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1981
The management of research libraries and national resources for the funding of research library activities were the major topics addressed by the speakers and discussion sessions at this meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Included are transcripts of the addresses and discussions on higher education's turbulent environment,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Administration, Educational Change, Federal Aid
Ahearn, Charles, Ed.; Nalley, Donna, Ed. – 2000
This document contains proceedings of a conference that fostered discussion on how low-performing schools become successful. Principal speakers were Michael Cohen, Assistant Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, who spoke about the demand for increased performance and high standards; Dennis Parker,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Community Action, Educational Change
Association of African Universities, Accra-North (Ghana). – 1993
A seminar was held in Dakar (Senegal) to bring together African university presidents, vice-chancellors, rectors, and top-level administrators to discuss the following themes: policies and modalities of admissions, planning and allocation of resources, structures of postsecondary education, and new technologies and interuniversity cooperation.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, Developing Nations, Educational Change
Hamblin, Fred, Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain all of the formal presentations made at a conference focusing on policy issues affecting the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario. Introductory remarks by Harry Fisher are followed by an outline by Blair Tully of the Ontario government's focus on high technology and the projects of the Board of Industrial…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Educational Development
Johnson, William A., Jr.; And Others – 1977
The symposium on the Financing of Quality Education was intended to initiate a dialogue in the Rochester-Monroe County, New York, area among professional educators, administrators, parents, businessmen, and experts in the field of educational finance and management. About 80 of the key players in the educational decision-making arena for this area…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Conference Reports, Educational Change
Metropolitan Education Coalition, Baltimore, MD. – 1989
The keynote addresses introduced conference participants both to general perspectives on school choice and to a specific focus on Maryland issues, concerns, and problems. In the panel discussion, four educational administrators discussed particular aspects of choice plans in their own subdivisions in different states. In the six discussion groups,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Lyons, Raymond F.; Collins, Joyce E. – 1980
The meeting reported in this document was held to focus attention on some of the problems that governments in developing countries encounter when they try, in introducing educational reforms, to make sure that what they choose meets the needs of people in disadvantaged and remote areas. Participants included 12 experts from 10 Asian countries…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations, Educational Administration
Spears, Jacqueline D., Ed. – 1986
This document is a summary of presentations and strategies offered at the 1986 National Invitational Conference on Rural Adult Postsecondary Education. The conference, organized by the Action Agenda Project and co-sponsored by the National University Continuing Education Association, explored the educational needs of rural adults and designed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Education, Economic Development, Educational Assessment
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Alexandria, VA. – 1993
This report describes a 2-day meeting of experts to identify and discuss the ramifications of inclusive school system proposals on the management, administration, delivery, and effectiveness of education programs and services for children with disabilities and to initiate development of a national action plan to address the issues. The policy…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Change
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. – 1978
The proceedings of a seminar on the financing of education in Latin America are recorded here. In the Seminar's 11 sessions, technical officials from Latin American countries discussed and analyzed two broad areas of mutual interest. The first area was the relationship between expanding educational programs, their cost and financing, and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Economics
App, Anne H. – 1991
This publication summarizes presentations and discussions from a conference that addressed specific issues in the National Assessment of Vocational Education and in the 1990 Perkins Act that mandated the assessment. Introductory materials include a summary of consensus issues from the conference (David Boesel), welcoming remarks (Bruno Manno), and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Correctional Education
App, Anne H., Comp. – 1991
This collection of 22 papers is organized by the five conference topics. "Part 1: Effects of the Perkins Act on Policy and Practice" contains five papers: "Federal Legislation as Rorschach Test: Methodological Issues in Assessing the Effects of the 1990 Perkins Act on States and Localities" (Grubb); "Effects of the 1990…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Correctional Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet, which was produced as a follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, examines communication among minorities and nonminorities in adult education programs. The booklet begins with a sketch of the situation of minority group members around the world and a list of 10 ways education policy and legislation can…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Change Strategies
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