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COOPER, SHIRLEY – 1960
WITH INCREASED URBANIZATION AND THE ASSOCIATED EMPHASIS ON CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS, THE ONCE-UNCOMPLICATED JOB OF THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT HAS BECOME AN INTRICATE TASK REQUIRING A TALENTED ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTED BY A STAFF SKILLED IN A WIDE VARIETY OF SPECIALTIES. THE ONCE-SIMPLE TASK OF ACQUIRING LAND ON WHICH TO CONSTRUCT NEW FACILITIES HAS…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Lieberman, Rachel Radlo – 1972
This publication explains how New York City has made a beginning in the adjustment of school procurement to meet conditions in a society where the most abundant resource is people. Faced with a burgeoning school population and dissatisfied with the existing and planned facilities, the city of New York formed a School Space Study committee in 1970…
Descriptors: Building Innovation, Construction Costs, Educational Facilities Improvement, Facility Case Studies
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This first part of the congressional hearings held in Washington, D.C., in February 1981, to reauthorize the Vocational Education Act of 1963 contains 16 pieces of testimony about vocational education programs in different institutional settings. Individuals giving testimony include representatives of the following institutions: Des Moines…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions, 1979
To identify central problems in vocational education in Alaska, a study focused on the three sectors at the postsecondary school level: public or independent nonprofit institutions, private schools, and apprenticeship programs. Public and nonprofit institutions consider job preparation their primary goal in addition to skill upgrading and teaching…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Alaska Natives, Apprenticeships
Saint Louis Public Schools, MO. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE STATUS OF QUALITY INTEGRATED EDUCATION IN THE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED ARE--(1) BUS TRANSPORTATION TO RELIEVE OVERCROWDING IN THE SCHOOLS, (2) RACIAL INTEGRATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND NONPROFESSIONAL SCHOOL STAFF, (3) A PROGRAM FOR TRAINING APPRENTICE…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Pyle, Robert B.; Cook, Susan E. – 1978
A project studied the feasibility of delivering instructional modules via a computer-managed instructional system for preparing and certifying inservice vocational education teachers. The project developed a computer-based system to deliver and manage instructional modules, developed and field tested twenty instructional modules, and developed a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Course Content
Kober, Nancy; Rentner, Diane Stark; Jennings, Jack – Center on Education Policy, 2006
Public education matters, whether one is a student, parent, teacher, volunteer, employer, employee, or taxpayer. Although an individual undoubtedly knows something about public education, he may be unaware of important facts about the U.S. education system or may be surprised to learn how things have changed in recent years. In this primer on…
Descriptors: Public Education, School Location, School Choice, Home Schooling
Feldbaum, Eleanor G. – 1977
A two-part study was conducted to investigate the underrepresentation of blacks in the medical and nursing professions. Through a literature search it was found that due to the low number of minority applicants medical schools have created positions for minority recruiters who serve as role models, empathize with black student concerns, and help…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2006
In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County (Maryland) approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on years) the County…
Descriptors: Counties, Superintendents, Budgets, Enrollment Trends
Foster, Margaret E.; And Others – 1975
University Student Census (USC) data of incoming freshman commuters at the University of Maryland, College Park, for 1973, 1974 and 1975 are examined. The respective samples numbered 1467, 588, and 858 students who were enrolling for the Fall semester and who planned to live off-campus. The report is divided into three sections: (1) a composite…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Black Studies, Bus Transportation
Gaumnitz, W. H.; Cook, Katherine M. – 1938
Examined were the educational conditions and efficiency of the school systems during the 1929-30 school year in both the mountainous and nonmountainous counties of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Information was obtained for five counties in each State which were regarded as the most mountainous and five…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Average Daily Attendance, Community Support, Comparative Analysis
Long, Michael; Carpenter, Peter; Hayden, Martin – 1999
This report draws on the Youth in Transition surveys to present educational participation rates for various categories of Australian youth. The focus is on how educational experiences differ among the categories and on the way in which such differences may have changed over time. Chapter 2 describes the way in which educational participation of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Economic Change
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