This report presents major statements related to curriculum development or student recruitment in chemical technology. The USOE's suggested 2-year post-secondary curriculum in chemical technology was described by Walter Brooking. In reporting the American Chemical Society's (ACS) recommendations for the chemistry core content of a chemical…

The Midwest Community College Leadership Council is a cooperative agency of the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University. It has sponsored conferences for trustees and presidents of newly formed junior colleges. Ten representative addresses from the conferences, collected in this paper, cover different aspects…

This is Part II of the first volume of the proceedings of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) Geometry Conference, held at Santa Barbara in June, 1967. The purpose of the conference was to consider the status of geometry in colleges at the undergraduate level. This volume contains two lectures: "The Geometric…

The third of three conference reports contains (1) a paper citing the needs for and discussing the characteristics, functions, and benefits of area educational service agencies, (2) panel discussion questions and answers concerning area educational districts, (3) questions and answers concerning the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services plan…

Attended by representatives from the New York State Education Department, the Library Extension Division, library systems in New York State, and other relevant agencies, this conference was held to gain better understanding of the various antipoverty programs and to encourage cooperative planning and better use of available resources, with…

This document is a report on the Conference on Needed Research in Mathematics Education held on the campus of the University of Georgia. A major objective of the conference was an examination of the progress of research in mathematics education as well as the development of guidelines for further research. Toward this end, the Conference was…

This booklet summarizes a conference on consumer education which was held for educators, community leaders, program administrators, consumer advocates, and journalists to introduce the principal issues facing consumers and to explore effective program designs and teaching methods and materials. Following a brief executive summary of the conference…

This book contains the formal papers that were presented at the 1968 convention of the International Reading Association. The papers discuss aspects of the following reading areas: reading instruction and materials, the curriculum in reading, reading organization, teacher education, research evaluation and reports, and issues in reading on the…

Complete texts of presentations and discussions at a 1975 UNESCO symposium on information systems in ongoing scientific and technical research are included in this volume. Forty-five papers were presented in four sessions: (1) ongoing research information in the service of science and science policy; (2) problems in developing and operating…

This report presents information on the educational accountability programs of Colorado school districts from July 1974 through June 1975 as reported to the State Board of Education under provisions of the state's Educational Accountability Act. Of Colorado's 181 school districts, 172 reported on their activities, and data were analyzed for 168.…

This report on the Tenth National Dissemination Conference of 1977 outlines the purposes of the conference and summarizes the present state of educational information dissemination. National programs are described, including the National Institute of Education State Capacity Building Program, the National Diffusion Network, the Dissemination…

The 35 articles represent presentations made during a conference on improving services to deaf-blind/multihandicapped individuals in residential facilities. Among entries are the following titles and authors: "Federal Thrust of Deaf-Blind Multihandicapped Funding" (J. Franklin); "Prevocational Training for Deaf-Blind (A Research Endeavor)" (J.…

Participants of a conference dealing with problems of maternal and neonatal narcotic addiction discussed issues regarding treatment of pregnant addicts and their children and considered steps that could be taken to address the issues. The subject areas covered were followup evaluation, treatment procedures and models, development of standardized…

This document reviews the process by which the cost benefits of using LANDSAT on an operational basis in the surveillance of lake eutrophication was established. The program identified the information needs of users conducting on-going water quality programs, transformed these needs into remote sensing requirements, produced LANDSAT maps and data…

This report presents data compiled as part of a comprehensive program to measure and analyze the nation's resources expended for research and development (R&D). Industry, which carries out 69% of the R&D in the United States, spent $26.6 billion on these activities in 1976, 10% above the 1975 level. In constant dollars, this presents an…