The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the telecommunications occupation. The telecommunications job cluster includes such areas as the telephone, two-way radio, cable TV, data transfer, teletype, and other allied fields. The document opens…

The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the terminal dispatching occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Three duties are broken down into a…

The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the terminal materials handling occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Five duties are broken down into…

To provide remote psychiatric services to a population in Moose Factory, Ontario, via satellite, digital data links will be used to provide 24-hour access to the psychiatric medical file system and the psychiatric patient register at University Hospital, London, Ontario, and to permit scoring and interpretation of standard psychological tests. The…

Initiating the Rural Child Care Project Monograph Series, this publication details the many factors which affect the selection and operation of a transportation service supporting rural child development centers. Relying upon its 9 years of experience, the Kentucky Youth Research Center (KYRC) presents relative advantages and disadvantages of 4…

Four attempts to use telecommunications in education are reviewed: educational television in Columbia, the Bavarian Telekolleg, ALPS (Adult Learning Program Service), and the proposed Edu-Cable. The lessons that have been learned from them bear on the application of cable television to education and higher education in particular. The analyses are…

The booklet describes approaches used in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to prevent blindness. It contrasts conditions prior to 1917 (300 eye doctors mainly located in large cities and 2,000 hospital beds for the 300,000 totally blind and 7,000,000 people with trachoma) with conditions in 1971 when in the Ukraine alone there were 3,000 eye…

This volume is a comprehensive reference guide to cable television technology and issues of planning, franchising, and regulating a cable system. It is intended for local government officials and citizens concerned with the development of cable television systems in their communities, as well as for college and university classes in…

The higher education appropriations cycle in Michigan is described with focus on whether the present system is fair and equitable. Two general conclusions are drawn: (1) There is strong evidence that the present system of allocating state funds for the operation of higher education institutions is not equitable in terms of support for comparable…

The Inservice Teacher Education (ISTE) Concepts Study gathered information from educational professionals and policy-makers. The resulting mass of information and concepts is presented in this overview of the nature of ISTE and its problems. The general structural problem of ISTE involves the interaction of several dimensions: (1) the governance…

Government agencies should investigate alternative service delivery systems in rural areas in order to overcome the problems of scope and distance. In examining alternative technologies, questions of feasibility, efficiency and effectiveness should be addressed. Numerous experiments, demonstrations, random innovations, and research studies have…

While state and local regulation is important to the development of communications, particularly broadband, Federal policies have been and will continue to be the dominant force in shaping the regulatory environment for communications. This paper identifies the Federal regulatory policies that have been most important to rural communications, and…

Presented is the summary report of a 5-year research program conducted in California to investigate substantive problems and questions relevant to the education of exceptional children, with emphasis on research questions having direct implications for the development and operation of public school special education programs. Priority…

Presented is a survey of current trends and issues pertaining to institutionalization and deinstitutionalization of handicapped persons in America. Chapter 1, an introduction, examines deinstitutionalization from ideological, public policy, psychosocial, and programmatic perspectives. Considered in the second chapter are obstacles that impede…

Twenty-seven position papers presented by representatives from educational agencies, regional corporations, and other interested parties in attendance at the 1973 Forum on Education in the Unorganized Borough (Alaska) were reviewed by the Center for Northern Educational Research (CNER) for purposes of identifying implied conditions or actions re…