This surveillance report is an update of the Laboratory's December 1967, report. It presents the current status of (1) organizational arrangements to facilitate the use of research and development information within the public school setting and (2) personnel training programs for increasing the use of research and development information by…

The aim of an audiovisual program in a school is to facilitate learning by improving instruction. The Guide is planned for the teacher or administrator who is concerned with the task of organizing and administering the audiovisual program at the elementary through high school levels. Principally, it explains how an audiovisual club or any pupil…

Developed in conjunction with the plan for comprehensive state and community action to combat mental retardation, the Maine Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Plan is designed to be integrated with other health facilities and to serve the needs of the mentally retarded. The advisory council and the state agency in charge are described. The…

This manual is intended to provide general guidelines and assistance to staff participating in the organization and development of a New Careers Program in a community. These activities are supported through contract with the Bureau of Work Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, as part of the New Careers Program, Section 123(a)(4) of the Economic…

The development of adult education in Oklahoma has followed the general American pattern. After World War II, several Oklahoma public schools began adult education programs and later took advantage of Federally supported vocational and literacy programs. However, differing attitudes toward educational purpose and financing between eastern and…

In the United States, most labor education is conducted by labor unions and university centers; it is not universally available throughout the country, but rather concentrated in the industrial northeast and middle west. National unions representing about half of the labor unionists conduct most of the education; they determine their own…

The report investigates the problems of assessing the availability of fertility regulation methods in the household and the community. The study originated from the need to evaluate a number of proposed additions to the data collection instruments used by the World Fertility Survey (WFS). The core questionnaire was modified to add the following…

In this speech the subject of eroding public confidence in the public schools is discussed. Elected school boards and school administrators quite frequently do not solve the problems facing the schools, and this failure is often because of lack of communication with the public and lack of citizen participation in decisions affecting school…

This thesis reviews activities of a study to develop a systematized course for teaching advanced typewriting on an individual basis to part-time adult students. The introduction presents a rationale for the study and section 1 presents the purpose of the study and definition of terms. Section 2 describes the data gathering procedures, and section…

Drawing heavily on the speeches and discussions that took place at a League for Innovation in the Community College conference held late in 1977 in North Carolina, this paper discusses the problem of increasing productivity in community colleges. Although escalating costs and decreasing revenues over the past decade have given the problem of…

Summary reports on the organization and financing of vocational education in each state and territory are presented in this second of a four-volume report of a national study of vocational education systems and facilities. Information for each state and territory is organized as follows: state governance of vocational education (state…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 15 summaries of documents and journal articles on declining enrollments, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as…

Resource allocation in universities is analyzed based on economic theory and a theory of organizational behavior in universities. Basic methods of reaching decisions regarding allocation are intuition and numbers and combinations of the two. The intuitive method assumes a university committee can judge its needs. The numerical method employs a…

The relationship between formal participation and control in community colleges was investigated by means of data collected from 656 faculty members and 139 administrators in five colleges which were identified as formally participative by a group of experts and in five colleges which were identified as formally non-participative. Organizational…

Following an introductory historical review, this book describes the functions, services, and resources of park and recreation systems. This survey emphasizes the social aspects of the park and recreation system and how the government meets these needs. Attention is given to minority groups and to the nature of financing services for the…