There has been recently an increased interest in educational legislation. The school administrator and the student of educational systems now turn for information and help to legal provisions as they turn to statistics or to the opinions of experienced schoolmen. Accompanied with this new interest in educational legislation have been increased…

In October 19, at the request of the Board of Education in the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Education made a preliminary survey of the schools of the District and reported to the board a plan for the reorganization of the administrative and teaching forces of the schools, including a schedule of salaries. It confined itself wholly to the…

School insurance programs often present major problems in school administration. School insurance of various types is one means of preventing or limiting financial loss from property damage or the claims of individuals for injury or damage payments. In varying degrees the States have delegated to certain local administrative school units and/or…

Distinctions were made between three classes of statistical linkage: equivalence, concordance, and prediction. These distinctions were based on rational content considerations and empirical statistical relationships. A large database involving SAT I and ACT scores was used to determine which type of linkage was best suited for different scores and…

Interest in technical education of the higher order has been greatly increased by the European war, and as a consequence numerous inquiries have been received at the Bureau of Education with regard to the higher technical schools of foreign countries. These inquiries relate in the main to the organization and conduct of the foreign schools, their…

Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…

The building cost analysis of Parkway North Senior High School has been prepared under the rules described in the first installment of a 3-part Building Cost Index (see EA 503 949); and contains a framework of categories, quantities, costs, and units of measurements. Performance data is listed to give a broad statistical picture of the building.…

Report on a research project to classify various language registers as related to advanced instruction of English as a foreign language; supported by the English Curriculum Section of the Language Bureau, Public Service Commission of Canada. (RS)

It was concluded the 3-group achievement plan did as well as the flexible grouping plan and less time was needed for planning and implementation. (Author)

The term minimal brain damage is evaluated in the light of several experiments on about 200 adolescents: no treatment in a democratic children's community; the effect of psychic energizers; electrosleep; biofeedback training for alpha wave desynchronization; deconditioning of phobias; and nutritional/medical treatment. (Author)

An edited version of a paper presented at the Child Evaluation Clinic, Second Annual Seminar on Cerebral Dysfunctions (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 30, 1969). (RD)

The author considers the advantages and problems of labeling and proposes and discusses a 2-year special education contract. (Author)

A major problem in testing the auditory discrimination of disadvantaged youth is their lack of contact with standard dialect, which results in their failure to make categorizations made by standard speakers. (JM)