By 1971, Texas had attained the largest enrollment of adults in adult basic education (ABE) of all States. This report provides a descriptive profile of ABE teachers and students and analyzes factors determining student enrollment, attendance, and program completion. An exploratory search, the study assesses the relationship of situational,…

This report demonstrates the variety of statistical data that can be used in making analytical studies of the education sector in Guatemala and indicates some areas in which useful data seem to be lacking. The report is divided into four major parts: text, graphics, major tables, and an appendix. The text consists of a written and tabular summary…

In this document, differences in what students expect to earn and what the census data indicates is eventually being earned at each age is considered. The difference between private returns and social rates of return is defined and reported by occupational field. Finally, the primary emphasis on why students and their families invest in graduate…

Contracted by the Select Council on Post-High School Education in Florida with the Southern Regional Education Board, this study was designed to provide information and observations which the Council could use in formulating suggestions and recommendations for the special post-high school educational needs of Negro students. The issues to which…

A three-year project to investigate black student utilization of the public community college in the South began with a year-long study of the attitudes of black students enrolled in high schools and junior colleges in five communities. Trained interviewers talked at length with approximately 400 students and with teachers, parents, and community…

This report seeks to clarify the advantages and disadvantages of three approaches to educational planning, and suggests that an eclectic approach is necessary to deal successfully with the problems and prospects of future planning. Each approach is examined to determine its methodology, its alleged shortcomings, and its application in selected…

A comprehensive view of educational development in Europe considers the long-term policy implications of integrating post-secondary education into the emerging systems of education, the diversification and decentralization of post-secondary education, and mobility of students, teachers, and research workers. Major sections examine: (1) policy…

In an attempt to deal with the current foreign language enrollment and learning problems created by the number of students who discontinue foreign language study after the sixth to eighth grade learning sequence, this pilot study seeks to identify, through the use of the Modern Language Aptitude Test and the Foreign Language Attitude Scale with…

This report is the 27th in the series of annual estimates of public school statistics. It includes estimates of the administrative organization, pupils, high school graduates, professional staff and salaries, and revenues and expenditures in the fall of 1968. National, regional, and State estimates are shown for the school year 1968-69, and…

Study of North Carolina's program for the exceptionally talented indicated a growth in enrollment which, however, remained at less than 1.5% of the public school population. Of the enrollers, 51% were in special language arts classes and 11% in self-contained classes; grade levels 9 through 12 had the highest enrollment. IQ scores ranged from 98…

The Rural Education Improvement Project of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools presents its second annual report relative to a 5-year rural education improvement program funded by the Noyes Foundation and the Danforth Foundation. The purposes of the program are reported as (1) the identification of effective means of interrupting the…

The educational operations for children in the Northwest Territories and for Eskimos in Arctic Quebec are presented in this review of the 1964-65 school year. This publication, the second annual report of the Education Services Division of the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, lists as one of its goals the preparation of young…

After a quarter of a century of rapid and sometimes spectacular growth, an increasing number of school systems are finding themselves faced with shrinking enrollments. The problems have changed from what to do about overcrowding, double sessions, and temporary facilities, to what to do about empty classrooms. The report examines this…

In recent times the ultimate role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Alaskan education has been questioned, focusing on how much longer the BIA will operate schools and what form, if any, BIA education will have within and following the next 5 years. Therefore, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (former Area Director for the Juneau Area…

This text arose out of a practicum course for school planners given by the authors at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The practicum is the core course of an M.Ed. program, which was designed to prepare planning-administrators for work at the level of the board of education in a system of education such as that of the province of…