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Canadian Teachers' Federation, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1985
The recruitment of young people into the teaching profession declined in Canada during the late 1970's and early 1980's. By 1985 the average age of teachers in most provinces rose to around 40. Three major papers presented at a 1985 seminar focused on the implications of this changing age structure for employment policies and services. In…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Aging in Academia, Change Strategies, Demography
Peer reviewedLowry, Glenn R.; And Others – Information Services and Use, 1989
The 10 papers in this collection discuss the database industry in Australia and New Zealand, networking activities in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region, intellectual property protection of databases, the development of land information systems in Australia, the development of expert systems, the use of optical data disks,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Database Producers, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries
Download full textGerald, Debra, E., Ed. – 2000
The 11th Federal Forecasters Conference provided a forum where 180 forecasters from different federal agencies and other organizations could meet and discuss forecasting in the United States. The theme for this conference was "Forecasting, Policy, and the Internet." In the morning session, a panel presentation featured three speakers.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Expenditures, Federal Government, Futures (of Society)
Gerald, Debra E., Ed. – 1999
The 10th Federal Forecasters Conference provided a forum where 127 forecasters from different federal agencies and other organizations met to discuss various aspects of the conference's theme, "Forecasting in the New Millennium," that could be applied in the United States. A keynote address, "Procedures for Auditing Federal…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Expenditures, Federal Government, Futures (of Society)
American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC. – 1977
This collection of 39 papers represents the majority of presentations made at the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting at Syracuse University, May 19-21, 1977. Contents are arranged in alphabetical order by first author. The number preceding the author's name coincides with the numbered sequence of presentations in the program bulletin for the meeting. This…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Databases, Graphs, Information Retrieval
Peterson, Paul E., Ed.; Hassel, Bryan C., Ed. – 1998
This volume contains revised versions of 16 essays presented at a conference, "Rethinking School Governance," hosted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance in June 1997. Part 1, "Introduction," contains two chapters: (1) "School Choice: A Report Card" (Paul E. Peterson); and (2) "The Case for Charter Schools" (Bryan C. Hassel).…
Descriptors: Administration, Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Vouchers
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY. – 1974
The document contains papers presented at a conference on global population trends. Conference participants, who represented international agencies and governments in developing nations, investigated social determinants of population trends, population policy, and population program assistance. Eleven papers are presented. Topics discussed include…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Birth Rate, Contraception, Cross Cultural Studies
Larson, Miriam T., Ed. – 1979
This report includes papers dealing with various facets of the library's role in filling the lay health education need and the appropriate responses to that need as conceived by the conference participants; the total content reflects the input from medicine, nursing, social work, community medicine, law, voluntary health agencies and national…
Descriptors: Health Education, Information Centers, Institutional Libraries, Librarians
Fergusson, Charles, Ed. – 1976
This document contains the speeches, and subsequent discussion, presented at the International Ex-Student Conference on Energy held at the University of Texas at Austin, April 26-30, 1976. Speakers included technical experts and representatives from an oil exporting country and from developed and developing oil importing countries. Energy sources,…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Energy
Bouvier, Leon F. – 1980
This bulletin examines the baby boom, its causes, its size, and its impact on U.S. society. Nearly 42 million births occurred in the U.S. from 1955 to 1964. Several reasons are given for this baby boom which interrupted a century long fertility decline. Demographically the primary causes were more people marrying and having at least two children…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Futures (of Society), Housing Needs
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1995
The 14 papers presented in this proceedings include: (1) "Intersurvey Consistency in School Surveys" (Wray Smith, Al Holt, Steven Kaufman, and Fritz Scheuren); (2) "Estimation Issues Related to the Student Component of the SASS" (Karen Ellen King and Steven Kaufman); (3) "Properties of the Schools and Staffing Survey's…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Longitudinal Studies
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
During the spring of 1980, 59,000 students from over 1,000 public and private high schools were surveyed to obtain base-year data for a projected longitudinal study entitled "High School and Beyond." Intended to provide background information for making policy decisions, the study focused on four specific policy concerns: discipline,…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational Policy, Financial Support, High Schools
Simonson, Michael R., Ed.; Rohner, Daniel, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1980
The 31 papers in this collection represent approximately 35 percent of the manuscripts which were submitted for consideration to the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) for presentation at the 1980 AECT convention. All papers were subjected to a blind reviewing process and the ones…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Audiovisual Communications, Bibliographies, Diagrams
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1982
Four papers were presented at a conference of 16 donor agencies involved in funding educational development and research. The conference focused on world investment in education, constraints on educational funding, and experiences with educational innovations aimed at improving cost effectiveness. Following an introductory overview of the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Demand
Baus, F., Ed. – 1980
Baseline information for the would-be cable television educational programer is provided by two papers, one an overview of the state of the cable television industry, and the other a report on a marketing study conducted to determine consumer attitudes toward cable TV as an educational medium. In "The Promise and Reality of Cable…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Community Attitudes, Economic Factors, Educational Television
