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Hoerner, James L., Ed. – 1977
Approximately 135 instructors, counselors, division directors, deans, presidents, university personnel, and graduate students from ten states participated in a fourth annual conference on New Horizons in Community College Occupational-Technical Education reported in this document. The general purpose of the conference was to examine current views…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Conference Reports, Demonstration Programs
DeLawter, Jayne, Ed. – 1976
The 33 articles published in this conference report represent the wide range of topics covered at the conference. Entries are organized under the following six headings: Comprehension: the reason for reading; the role of reading in personal development; language and cultural variables and reading; instructional programs and procedures; reading in…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Bibliotherapy, Bilingual Students, Conference Reports
National Advisory Committee on Black Higher Education and Black Colleges and Universities (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
The report describes the background, functions, and activities of the National Advisory Committee on Black Higher Education and Black Colleges and Universities during 1977. It also gives a statistical overview of blacks in American higher education, and proposes a plan of action to attain goals of access (increasing participation), opportunities…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action, Annual Reports
Lachman, Seymour P., Ed. – 1978
The conference was convened to provide a forum for educators, human rights representatives, and government officials to discuss decision-making processes of local education authorities. The focus of the conference was on the increasing influence on educational policy formation of federal and state court decisions, regulatory agencies, professional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Conference Reports
Education Center for Chinese, San Francisco, CA. – 1973
The Asian Newcomer Parent Program (ANPP), was intended to provide newly immigrated parents some of the same opportunities as their children to learn English, to understand American mores and lifestyles, and to transcend some of the cultural and communication barriers within the family unit. The project is described in the second-year report, which…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annual Reports, Articulation (Education), Asian Americans
McCage, Ronald D., Ed. – 1974
The proceedings of the conference on outstanding research and curriculum activities conducted by the various State research coordinating units opens with William W. Stevenson's brief examination of alternative research efforts. The remainder of the first half of the document consists of abstracts of the 15 presentations at the conference sessions…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Career Education, Conference Reports, Coordination
Davis, Marcheta Z., Ed. – 1973
This document reports on a conference, concerning rural blacks in four Southern states, that has as its theme the definition of the problem and research priorities relating to the development of a sense of community. A section on formal presentations includes topics such as democracy, economic progress, and research in the southern region, the…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Black Influences, Blacks
Greenville Technical Coll., SC. – 1974
The theme for the proceedings of the conference is "Technical Education--A Continuing Search for Quality." The topics of the 10 papers included in the proceedings covered the search for quality, technical teacher training, effective student counseling, educational management by objectives, educational management through joint participation with…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Conference Reports, Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
Rural Development Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1971
Information derived from the Federal Information Exchange System on Federal outlays in rural America (160 Federal programs) provides the basis for this initial annual report. Information is reported via narrative and tabular data and relates only to Federal assistance. Highlighting some of the recent rural socioeconomic trends, the narrative…
Descriptors: Agencies, Annual Reports, Education, Employment
Porreca, Anthony G., Ed.; And Others – 1975
The 17 presentations of the second Decisions Ahead Conference reflect the contributions of several persons who are representatives of important contemporary vocational and career education issues. The topics on which the conference was planned represent significant views of researchers, conceptualizers, and practitioners which can assist in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Conference Reports
O'Shea, David W., Ed. – 1974
Proceedings of the 1974 Second Annual Conference of the Sociology of Education Association are presented. The conference, which focused upon the sociology of the school and schooling at the elementary and secondary levels, was structured around three objectives: (1) provide sociologists of education an opportunity to review past work in their…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Clark, Cynthia L., Ed. – 1976
The principal objectives of this conference were to exchange information, discuss theoretical and empirical developments, and to coordinate research efforts. The papers and their authors are: "The Graded Response Model of Latent Trait Theory and Tailored Testing" by Fumiko Samejima; (Incomplete Orders and Computerized Testing" by…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Branching
University System of Georgia, Atlanta. – 1974
The responsiveness of Georgia's universities, senior, and junior colleges to the state's students is reported. Many new programs were added, modified, or expanded, and were implemented to keep up-to-date with requirements for new types and emphases of instruction, research, and public service that reflect rapidly changing technology and economic…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Annual Reports, College Administration, Curriculum Development
Bostick, Herman F., Ed.; Hutchinson, Gail, Ed. – 1973
This report includes the following addresses to the conference: (1) "Some Socio-linguistic Considerations in the Teaching of Foreign Languages", (2) "The Case of Afro-Portuguese Literature", (3) "Foreign Language Success Stories--Hackensack Has It!", (4) "On Apes, Poetry, and Language Teaching", (5) "A Sociolinguistic Aspect of Japanese Americans…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, African Culture, African Literature, Conference Reports
Nicholls State Univ., Thibodaux, LA. Graduate School. – 1972
The report is a final evaluation of a three-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) institute emphasizing rural ABE, and of the research phase of the project conducted July 1971--May 1972. Throughout the institute, participants were requested to compile a list of areas of adult education research based on the presentations and discussions during the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Educators
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