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American Vocational Journal, 1976
Highlights are presented from the policy statements of the National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education (NASDVE) drafted during the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention. (AJ)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, National Organizations, Policy, Policy Formation
California Univ., Berkeley. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1976
The major goal of a project was to increase the effectiveness of vocational education funds by determining what policies could be effected to improve the quality and increase the quantity of vocational education. Five meetings were held with representatives from five States for the purpose of developing and reaching a consensus on those policies…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Financial Policy
Shirley, Maurice
The report was prepared by a member of the staff of the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE). It constitutes a clear and precise statement of the tasks required to establish a "laboratory MISOE," as described in the Journal of Research and Development in Education (Winter 1974), to accomplish the purposes of…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computers, Cost Estimates
Download full textCreager, John A. – 1974
The Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) supports policy formation at two levels. On the static level, MISOE provides managers with data about students, teachers, administrators, costs, and the social impacts of educational programs which are essential to the accurate analysis of present policy. On another level, the…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Planning, Information Systems
Lynch, Richard L.; And Others – 1994
States have experienced varying levels of success in the transfer of credits between institutions of higher education and in the development and implementation of articulation policy, agreements, and structures. A look at the approaches currently being used in the southeastern region of the United States can help to identify options and provide a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Education
Schwartz, Henrietta; Olsen, George – 1980
The process used to develop a five-year and annual Illinois state plan for sex equity in vocational education programs is described and analyzed. The appropriateness of theory and frameworks used to develop the plan are examined as well as the five-phase operational framework which emerged from the developmental process: expectations and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attitudes, Equal Education, Equal Facilities
Wright, Jerauld B. – 1975
The research and evaluation consultant for the North Carolina Advisory Council on Vocational Education summarizes the position of the National Advisory Council based on their special 1974 report entitled "Report on Urban Vocational Education" supplemented by the annual reports from 1972 to 1975. Noting that the report summarizes hearings…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees, Educational Needs, Educational Problems
American Vocational Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1998
This document is intended to serve as an easy-to-use reference to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998. The document begins with an historical overview of vocational education policy and legislation for the years 1917-1998. Presented next is an analysis of the differences between the 1990 and 1998 Perkins acts. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
New York State Job Training Partnership Council, Albany. – 1992
A New York State task force determined that the education system in the state must be changed to prepare youth for the high-performance workplaces of the future. According to the task force, the state must establish globally competitive standards for what youth must know and be able to do as they enter the workplace or postsecondary education.…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Lopez-Valadez, Jeanne – 1988
Limited English proficient (LEP) persons comprise a significant and growing portion of the population of the United States. Although these people with their language, culture, and strong work ethic represent a valuable human resource for this country's future productivity, LEP persons are grossly underrepresented in vocational and educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, Educational Finance
Walters, Norma J. – 1986
This monograph provides information on the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education (SACVE) mandated by the Vocational Education Act of 1963, as amended in 1968. Section I discusses the SACVE and its responsibilities. Section II focuses on the increased emphasis and added responsibilities given to the SACVE under the Vocational Education…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Advisory Committees, Educational Planning, Evaluation
Iowa State Career Education Advisory Council, Des Moines. – 1977
Focus in this evaluation report of Iowa secondary vocational education is on jointly administered programs--those contracted services which are established either between two or more secondary schools or between a merged area school and one or more secondary schools. The report is a synthesis and discussion of information gathered from field…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Policy Formation, Program Administration, Program Effectiveness
Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Madison. – 1977
The policy statements reported here were developed to assist decisionmakers in the improvement of vocational education in Wisconsin through the clarification of philosophy, restatement of principles, and categorization of statements of policy. First, a preamble sets the framework for what follows by defining some basic concepts, including…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Financial Policy
Conroy, William G., Jr.; And Others – 1974
An overview is provided of the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE). MISOE is described as an interactive, computerized information system designed to be prototypical for the statewide management of education and to help managers at all levels better understand, through numerical analysis of past experience, the causal…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Latta, E. Michael – 1978
Almost seventy years passed before vocational education was recognized in 1977 as a state function in North Carolina's public secondary schools, community colleges/technical institutes, and teacher education programs. Although the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act initiated vocational education, North Carolina education was primarily a local matter until the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational History, Educational Responsibility, Federal Legislation
