Enumerates the factors to be considered in a study of the users of United Nations documents. (PF)

This fourth annual report of the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) documents its disaffiliation from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB); the increased strength and solidity of the whole organization as evidenced by the addition of 44 new member institutions and 48 new terminals in member libraries; the increased ability to meet the…

A report on the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation Centre Seminar, Uppsala, Sweden, October, 1974. (Author)

A discussion of the central theme of this year's Basle Seminar, the education and welfare of the disadvantaged. (HB)

The extracts of the three texts from the International Labour Conference discuss the adopted policy on educational leave recommendations, and resulutions. Herbert Levine reviews the American experience concerning the subject, and the approach adopted in Norway--a country with a long tradition of arrangements for paid educational leave--is…

Complete Proceedings ofthe congress may be ordered from NEA Publications-Sales, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (

Beginning teachers of scientific technical writing often have little background knowledge in the sciences; thus, they may encounter difficulty in dealing with technical reports. To achieve clear explanations of the effects of scientific experiments, scientific writers need to know the following general principles: (1) the function of all the…

This book contains proceedings of the annual conference of the British Educational Administration Society (BEAS) held in September 1978 in London. The theme of the conference was approaches to the professional development of educational administrators and the future role of the BEAS in that process. Three speeches are included, covering the…

The activities of the 37th annual meeting of the National Junior College Athletic Association in March 1978 are chronicled. (MM)

This report, the seventh in a series concerning school calendars, examines teacher attendance patterns. Pupil attendance falls off from the September high point to reach a low point in February, whereupon the trend is reversed through June. Outside temperature and student patterns are similar. A sample of New York State public school districts was…

How teachers methodically construct report card comments into organized social features is addressed through an examination of negotiation structures which organize anecdotes. Anecdotal comments are key communication devices which teachers employ for reporting. Four hundred and fifty anecdotal comments teachers wrote about students were collected…

This annual report presents evaluative descriptions of meeting activities and recommendations to achieve goals of providing high quality services and activities to the membership. It also includes information on the membership, the budget, group publications, and other professional activities. (RAA)

This paper provides a model for five-page, self-evaluation reports to be used by projects funded by the New York State Education Department. This five-page model is proposed as an alternative to bulky, time-consuming documents that often suffer from "mismatch, mismanagement, and miscalculation." The report preview explains how to avoid…