Cooperative Extension is a complex organization with a mission to deliver research from the Land-Grant University to all U.S. communities. This qualitative Grounded Theory study investigated State Extension administrators' perspectives on the environmental factor changes facing the organization and their responses to inform the direction for…

This research study examined how school leaders internalize new state-level reading policy aligned with the body of research known as the Science of Reading and how they make sense of district expectations to make decisions for their school community and its impact on students at-risk for reading difficulty. The Ready to Read Act is a Maryland…

Discusses a study undertaken to determine the viewpoints of national leaders of industrial arts with administrative duties at the state level toward industrial arts programs. Includes objectives of industrial arts, a definition, major issues and problems, and suggestions for improvement. (JOW)

An e-mail survey was conducted in the summer of 2007 to obtain information from state supervisors of mathematics (employees of state departments of education with primary responsibility for K-12 curriculum leadership) regarding the impact of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) 2006 publication, "Curriculum Focal Points (CFP) for…

Reports a study conducted to rank the perceived concerns of the agricultural education profession as identified by supervisors, teachers, and teacher educators. Five areas of greatest concern are presented in descending order: curriculum development, funding, teacher education, teacher shortage, and evaluation. Statistical tables are included. (BM)

This article reports the results of a survey conducted in 1992-93 of foreign language programs and issues in middle schools. Members of professional organizations representing state and local foreign language supervisors were surveyed to ascertain the nature and extent of exploratory and sequential course offerings, as well as supervisors views on…

Phase II of this three-phase study was a seminar held to inform teachers of information obtained in Phase I, a survey of 483 Florida businesses. During the course of the seminar 59 home economics teachers and supervisors participated in 3 weeks of intensive in-service education. Pre- and post-tests were made of participants' knowledge, attitudes,…

This study was undertaken to determine a set of belief statements that, when validated, would serve as principles for vocational education. The instrument selected was a modified version of the Q-sort technique, referred to as a card-sort. The final instrument included 91 statements of belief selected from the literature, and was validated through…

Opinions about nine issues were examined: agricultural education's purpose, desired clientele, content, supervised occupational experience (SOE) requirements, types of SOE for production and nonproduction agriculture, Future Farmers of America membership, class instruction in FFA, and title for agricultural programs. The extent of consensus on a…

A study was conducted to determine the support of southern agricultural education state supervisors, teacher educators, and graduate students for a merger of the Southern Agricultural Education Conference and the Southern Research Conference in Agricultural Education. A three-part instrument was developed that obtained descriptive information…

To determine the attitudes of industrial arts educators throughout the nation toward a more uniform nationwide curriculum for industrial arts, an opinionnaire was completed by 130 of 150 selected industrial arts department chairmen of colleges and universities, by 36 of the 50 state industrial arts supervisors or consultants, and by 194 (88…

To develop a basis for understanding the relationships between change orientation of state supervisors of vocational education and selected individual, intraorganizational, and extraorganizational factors, 12 major hypotheses and 63 pairs of null and alternative hypotheses were formulated upon the basis of a theoretical framework. Responses to a…

This paper states the position of the National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages (NCSSFL) in regard to bilingual education. The Council feels that the ethnic languages and cultures of the people living in the United States should be preserved in order to strengthen and enrich the total American society. It therefore favors…

All state directors of adult education in the United States were asked to complete a questionnaire requiring them to consider health within the context of learning and offer priority ratings for health from the various standpoints. An 88% response rate was achieved. On a 5-point scale, the state directors' mean ratings of health from selected…

A study was conducted to determine the following: the characteristics of state-level administrative structure for vocational education within state departments of education; the current role and the expected role of state supervisors of vocational agriculture as perceived by high school teachers and state supervisors of vocational agriculture, and…