The paper presents tables, charts, and narrative containing statistical data on special education hearings in Pennsylvania. Sections address the following: 1980 hearings by exceptionality, 1972-1981 hearings by exceptionality, issues covered at hearings, hearings concerning the extended school year program, occupations of hearing officers, hearing…

Demographic and economic materials relevant to rural economic development are the focus of this description of the types of information that are collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and how this information can be accessed. Information provided on demographic materials includes collection methods--the census, surveys, and administrative…

Fifteen people recently graduated from a state-approved educational leadership program, K-12 School Administration specialization track, and sat for the Florida Educational Leadership Examination (FELE). Six of the fifteen graduates successfully completed a survey ranking courses in the program relative to their relevancy to the FELE. They also…

Preliminary findings of this research effort provide support for the hypothesis that existing databases maintained by federal agencies for administrative or monitoring purposes can serve as useful data sources in special education policy research. The research explored the relationships among a number of state-level special education, fiscal, and…

The Illinois project entitled Measurement and Evaluation of Public Library Services is being conducted by the Library Research Center (LRC) at the University of Illinois. The long range goal of the project is to make available meaningful information for the evaluation and improvement of local public libraries. Two immediate objectives are to test…

State program practices in norm-referenced testing (NRT) are described as found in the 1990-91 school year and prior years to provide information on years of administration of the same test and the age of the norms. All 50 State Departments of Education were surveyed in 2 stages. States without NRT were asked to described their testing policies;…