A mandated study was made of Virginia's roles in child day care regulation and the promotion of high quality care. The primary objectives of the study were to: (1) examine the state's goals in regulating child day care and determine whether changes to the regulatory system were needed to meet those goals; and (2) review the state's role in…

The School-Age Parenting and Infant Development (SAPID) Program Quality Review (PQR) Instrument focuses on multiple uses related to California's SAPID programs. SAPID programs provide: (1) education for the school-age parent, including classes in parenting education, opportunities for career development, and high school graduation; and (2) care…

This report recommends to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education initiatives to improve the management, information systems, and accountability of Louisiana's postsecondary vocational-technical system. Part I summarizes reforms in management of the vocational-technical education system needed to respond to economic and fiscal…

The directory presents a listing of disability-related information resources in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Organized alphabetically by state, entries address the following categories: vocational rehabilitation office, client assistance program, governor's committee on employment of the handicapped, protection and advocacy agency,…

This report presents the results of efforts of the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care to examine the extent of elder abuse in the United States. The executive summary presents details of the actions taken by Congress to pass legislation (H.R. 7551) to help control unwarranted violence against the aged and by the states to pass elder…

Based on dissertation for PhD degree at Florida State University (1965).

The briefing paper examines the problems in providing vocational education to handicapped secondary students in South Carolina; reviews three major laws mandating vocational training for the handicapped (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vocational Educationl Act of 1963 as mandated through…

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…

This document reports briefly on a meeting sponsored by the National Association of State Boards of Education and attended by state-level policy-makers from nine states deeply involved in desegregation efforts. Topics discussed by the participants in relation to desegregation efforts included funding, judicial and legislative commitment, state…

The workshop manual is designed to provide an overview of the information dissemination process for PRISE (Pennsylvania Resources and Information Center for Special Education), which provides information in response to requests from special educators throughout the state. The following aspects of the workshop are discussed (sample subtopics in…

The need for goals in postsecondary and higher education is discussed. It is suggested that the development of statewide goals can serve as a means of making postsecondary education accountable to the public without resort to increased control and regulation. The process being used in Georgia to develop statewide goals for postsecondary education,…

This report presents an overview of the distribution formats for instructional television. While broadcast means of distribution have ben the mainstay of instructional television in the past, there are at least three television technologies that are considered as appropriate delivery mechanisms: over the air transmission, including broadcasting,…

This review of the problems encountered in the use of telecommunications for higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia points out that there is no agency or organization that has taken the lead in coordinating and facilitating the organized growth and development of television services with and among all institutions. Insufficient in-place…

This paper discusses three aspects of telecommunication programming delivery--instructional television fixed services, subsidiary communication authority, and cable television--and applies these systems to Virginia's requirements, pointing out their future potential in the Commonwealth. The potential oF network interconnection is also discussed…