In response to a congressional inquiry, the General Accounting Office reviewed the work of five state humanities councils: California, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, and Oregon. Out of about 700 projects funded by these state councils during fiscal years 1982 and 1983, ten were judged by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or state council…

The state plan outlines Ohio's programs and services for people with developmental disabilities (DD). The definition and impact of DD are noted in section 1, and this is followed in sections 2 and 3 by descriptions of the State Planning Council on DD and the State Administering Agency. Section 4 examines the state context, noting the issues and…

North Carolina's Community-Based Alternatives (CBA) program serves more than 44,000 youths each year. To obtain local criminal officials' and juvenile justice program practitioners' reactions concerning the operation of the CBA, information was gathered from 107 questionnaires completed by local social service, school, and juvenile court…

This Alaska State Department of Education report on the school year 1976-77 briefly describes state boards and commissions, developments in the office of the commissioner, and the current status of programs in management, law, finance, educational program support, vocational rehabilitation, and the state libraries and museums. Information on…

This evaluation tested the effectiveness of a drug education program among primary and intermediate level students in a Wisconsin area. While the outcomes of this report are significant to educators in Wisconsin, the specificity of methodology and instrumentation is of potential value to other groups wishing to determine the effectiveness of their…

A case study of the Graduate Studies Center at Milliken University, a cooperative project of Milliken (a private, church-related undergraduate university) and four state institutions, funded by the Illinois Higher Education Cooperation Act (HECA), reveals benefits to students, the state schools, and Milliken (the broker) with no threat to…

The New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) testing program is the result of 1976 legislation. The major purpose, aside from establishing a uniform standard of pupil proficiency, has been to provide local districts information on individual pupil proficiency and identify program strengths and weaknesses. To better meet the needs of local districts,…

Designed for parents of handicapped children in Kentucky, the booklet contains suggestions for parent involvement and advocacy. Planning informal activities is the focus of the first section which covers informal get togethers, discussion groups, and film viewing sessions. Planning steps for more formal group activities such as workshops are…

The paper addresses questions pertaining to the kinds of programs and placements which may be recommended in Phase I of the individualized education program (IEP), the development of Phase II in a planning conference, and the annual review of the IEP by the (New York) Committee on the Handicapped. Topics covered include the following: types of…

The paper presents guidelines to assist Virginia's local education agency (LEA) personnel, particularly teachers, administrators, counselors, and test providers, in the implementation of the minimum competency program for handicapped students. An introduction traces the history of graduation requirements, outlines revised graduation eligibility,…

Based on the author's observation of the activities of this pre-White House Conference on Library and Information Services and a synthesis of the reactions of the conference delegates, this evaluation assesses the extent to which this conference, held in Juneau on March 8-9, 1979, met its own objectives. A discussion of library and information…

A case study of the Suburban Library System (SLS) was conducted by applying an analytical library network model to data collected during March 1978. Models are developed for describing the intralibrary processing activities encountered at SLS and the other resource libraries in this case study. Alternative routing policies for referring requests…

This publication lists the exemplary vocational education projects supported in each state during fiscal year 1977 by grants and contracts funded under Section 142(d) of Part D of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. The arrangement is alphabetical by state, giving the project titles, the names of grantees or contractors conducting the…

There are three areas in which federal grant outlays to California could be affected by reduced local spending brought about by the pasage of Proposition 13. The biggest impact on federal outlays probably will result from matching and maintenance of effort requirements in federal assistance programs. Both base federal aid on the amount of the…

THIS HANDBOOK CONTAINS ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN ELEMENTS FOR AN EDUCATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAM--(1) COMMITMENT, (2) FACILITIES, (3) STAFF, (4) BUDGET, (5) INSERVICE TRAINING, (6) MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT, AND (7) EVALUATION. (MS)