The importance of specific competencies and knowledge areas needed by bachelor level community health educators was examined through a survey of 67 practicing health educators in Maine who were members of public health educator associations. Respondents ranked 99 competencies in order of their perceived importance to professional practice. Results…

A number of educators formed a network and established the European Forum on Educational Administration. The Forum's program described in this publication had a duration of one week consisting of a day of intensive orientation to the Federal Republic of Germany's education system, two and a half days of visits to educational institutions in the…

Hearings held before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities on the Student Assistance Amendments of 1981 are presented, along with the text of S. 1108. A major objective of the bill is to amend Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to emphasize the element of need in the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program and the…

This final report presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Title I Institutionalized Facilities Program in New York City for the 1980-81 school year. The areas of evaluation included: physical facilities, staff, instructional approaches in reading, mathematics and writing, materials selection and utilization,…

The limited-English proficient (LEP) population in California is growing, as a result of birth rate and immigration patterns; the minorities with the most limited-English proficient persons--Hispanics and Asians--are growing the most rapidly. Groups with the greatest number of LEP persons typically fall behind the English-speaking majority in…

Minority children in rural settings have limited access to educational and economic resources. School psychologists, with commitments to several rural schools, may have difficulty getting to know minority children and to understand their diverse needs. School psychologists specifically trained to work in rural settings consider their major…

The three purposes of a literature review were to (1) document factors relating to the underrepresentation of women in vocational education administration, (2) establish a sound data base for dissemination, and (3) encourage other project and program work toward attaining sex equity in vocational education administration. Ten interpersonal factors…

This publication contains exerpts from interviews with international scholars in the natural and social sciences about the future of education. Part I discusses educating for a new millennium. The scholars suggest basic concepts in their fields of expertise that young persons should understand if they are to survive the troubled years that lie…

This study attempts to make a broad appraisal of the needs experienced by students of foreign languages in the schools. The object of the study is to draw up a methodology and offer a set of didactic tools which will help to progress toward the overall educational objectives of the Modern Languages Project of the Council of Europe. The starting…

As required by Title 5 of the California Education Code, this report presents data indicative of the educational needs to be met by the establishment of Los Angeles Metropolitan College, an institution to administer the overseas programs sponsored by the Los Angeles Community College District at 60 military bases around the world. The report first…

A six-phase inservice plan based on a cybernetic, modified operations research model was used and evaluated in elementary and secondary schools. The cybernetic planning loop is characterized by adaptation and adoption based on continuous assessment, dissemination, and feedback processes. In phase one, a needs assessment identified planning and…

A project was conducted to develop a program of competencies needed by persons who are to receive a master's degree as directors of adult continuing education. The first section of the project provided a computerized needs assessment of the training items to be included in a master's degree curriculum for administrators of adult continuing…

Comprehensive planning has been identified as an essential ingredient in the efforts of local schools to increase the responsiveness of vocational education. This report describes the reality of comprehensive vocational education planning as it occurs in a wide variety of educational and environmental contexts, suggests ways that have the…

This manual for counseling personnel provides ready access to appropriate resources for planning and implementing a comprehensive guidance program. It is divided into four sections. Section 1 provides information about and examples of nine essential focal points in a good program: (1) philosophy of education, (2) program development model, (3)…

Some of the information needed by policy makers faced with deciding whether and where to develop new educational research and development centers is analyzed in this document. The purpose is to provide an assessment of the current relationships among such factors as funding levels, numbers and sizes of centers, sizes of student populations, state…