A review of assessment and planning aids is presented to provide the local school district with a practical and a theoretical framework on which to base its planning for a feasibility study of a year-round school program. The first and most crucial decision that must be made is the determination that educational programing is the basis on which…

Recognizing the need for a health manpower planning system that would insure the recruitment, training, utilization, and retention of area residents as skilled providers of health care, Comprehensive Health Planning, Inc., Metropolitan Chicago (CHP), and the West Side Health Planning Organization (WSHPO) embarked on a 1-year project to demonstrate…

This guide provides criteria for both the planning and the implementing of career education programs at the community college level and is the result of a national poll conducted by the National Dissemination Project. It is intended to suggest ways in which community colleges might better serve the needs of minority and disadvantaged students…

The final report of the Cooperative Industrial Education (CIE) Coordinators' Workshop (New Jersey, 1973) includes statements relating to conference objectives, edited transcripts of presentations, summary statements by group discussion leaders, an evaluation of the conference proceedings, and an introductory statement of accomplishments that…

How can children, disadvantaged as well as middle-class, be taught cognitive skills through the medium of television? This is the question Richard Polsky addresses in describing the planning and early development (1966-1968) of the Children's Television Workshop. An examination of the period prior to the public announcement of the project tells…

This guide contains materials which are designed to assist rural school systems in assessing educational needs, in systematically planning strategies to develop a communication skills program, and in applying for Title III funds. Included are instructions for a survey and an inventory of needs, suggestions for the allocation of resources according…

The purpose of the project was to develop and validate a computer-assisted literacy development program for career oriented youth, ages 14-24. This goal has been accomplished so that there now exists a model for a total computerized reading program for young adults. The end product of this program consists of adult diagnostic reading level tests,…

This is the report of a study conducted to develop a system which would identify the primary elements needed to install career education at the local level, provide insight into attitude changes needed regarding the installation of career education, identify strategies that could be initiated to enhance the installation of career education, and to…

This study identified skills that should be taught in the agricultural mechanics area of production vocational agriculture courses in Texas high schools. The data were obtained from questionnaires given to 50 young farmers who had been recognized by the State Association of Young Farmers of Texas for outstanding farming programs during one of the…

A comprehensive school planning tool is available from General Learning Corporation and the Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration at the University of Oregon. This School Planning, Evaluation and Communication System (SPECS) provides a deliverable system of training, implementation strategies and materials and technical…

The Communication Program of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is creating a self-contained training package on Instructional Planning for administrators, teachers, and others who plan, select, manage, and evaluate instructional programs. The training package consists of three sequential units: Problem Analysis, Goal…

This Region VI conference called by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, brought together 240 participants from New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana to discuss how career education needs of youth and adults and the needs of the economy are being met, to determine the role of vocational education in the process, and to…

California State Board of Education policies authorizing implementation of early childhood legislation for K-3 programs are given. Legislative authority is quoted for each of the policies, which cover: (1) development of the early childhood education master plan--district level planning, individual school level planning, optional waiver of…

The three position papers on reading disability and illiteracy offer a description of the present position and boundaries of the problem which the current state of knowledge, research, and experience affords us. The first, "The Costs of Illiteracy" by A. Dale Tussing and Laurence B. DeWitt, attempts to describe these "costs" as the quickest way to…

Under the present practices, the objectives and activities of socially oriented projects have rarely been specified with enough clarity and concreteness. Alternatives have been insufficiently presented for consideration by top management. In a number of cases, the future costs of present decisions have not been laid out systematically enough and…