This handbook provides local educational agencies with the necessary information and instructions for participation in Part B of Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which authorizes assistance for the purpose of acquiring school library resources and printed instructional materials to be used by children and teachers in…

A management plan is outlined for the development of an inservice teacher education program. Suggested roles and responsibilities of key personnel are discussed. Critical decisions and events in the planning process are pointed out, and a management blueprint is included. This revision of an earlier guide also contains a monograph on the generic…

Presented is a compendium of quantitative information portraying science education in the United States. The data, gathered from a wide variety of sources, are assembled into six chapters including resources, participation, attitudes, goals and needs, test data, degree data, and employment in science and engineering. Each entry consists of a chart…

Participants in this resource sharing conference in Alaska, which focused on the identification of educational resources and linking users to resource providers, included representatives from business, industry, and other agencies, as well as educators. The objectives of the conference were (1) to provide providers of services with a better…

The first intensive exposure to organized dissemination at the state, regional, and national level for many of the participants, this 2-day conference consisted of a series of sessions held in Honolulu and neighboring islands. Explanations of how these dissemination efforts are organized and operated were followed by detailed information on the…

Selected by Department of Education staff to initiate a resource exchange effort, a core group of 19 representatives of educational agencies and organizations was invited to attend this conference intended to increase individual and group knowledge of the resources and services available from their organizations. A pre-conference mailing included…

Input into the design, content, and development of a comprehensive resource tool--the Montana Educational Resources and Services notebook--was provided by the 16 members of a planning team made up of Office of Public Instruction (OPI) managers and consultants, selected Montana educators, and Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Dissemination…

The approximately 100 participants in this conference, who represented a wide variety of educational and noneducational agencies in and outside Oregon, learned new strategies for networking; shared information about the extensive base of human and material resources available to support school improvement in the state; developed ideas on how…

Building upon groundwork established by previous meetings, this session of the Washington Dissemination Task Force focused on the preparation and intensive study of a policy and guidelines on dissemination for the Office of the State Department of Public Instruction (OSPI), and the identification of future responsibilities of the group. Conference…

The planning and organization of this project are described, as well as such activities as the formation of the steering committee, identification of resources, support for dissemination planning conferences in each of the six member states (Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington), and the development of the State Consultant Model.…

AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF PROVIDING ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP, THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (NTCE) REVIEWS THE SCOPE OF PRESENT NCTE ACTIVITY IN IMPROVING ENGLISH TEACHING AND THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH. THE REPORT IS A SUMMARY OF HOW NCTE HAS ENTERED INTO A VIGOROUS REAPPRAISAL OF THE SUBJECT OF ENGLISH, ITS…

BASIC ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN ANALYSIS BY RATIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION ARE APPLIED TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF USE OF ALLOCATED RESOURCES, THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN APPLICATION OF RESOURCES TO A PARTICULAR PROGRAM AND ATTAINMENT OF OBJECTIVES CAN BE DETERMINED BY BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS, THE RATIO OF THE PRESENT VALUE OF…

One of the trends in Native Education in the United States and Canada is the re-emergence of concern for the "old ways," which are looked to increasingly for practical guidance in meeting the challenges of today's world. The old ways teach the purpose of life. Such rituals as fasting, feasting, and spirit quests teach a special way of looking at…

This report describes the activities and accomplishments resulting from a federal dissemination grant awarded to the Arkansas State Department of Education. The state dissemination project was conducted to make school personnel aware of dissemination activities and to assess the needs of school district personnel and state agency personnel in the…

This report on the role of career education as a tool for meeting the needs of special populations contains a series of five reports on the special career education needs of various groups of students. Discussed in the first chapter, on career education in the heterogenous classroom, are the need to expose students to middle class life, to…