Approximately 2,700 books, pamphlets, and articles from all over the world published before October 1967, are listed in this annotated bibliography on public expenditure decision making. Emphasis is on the economic criteria of decision making derived through use of systematic and analytical methods. Entries are organized into 33 general…

One of a series of eleven curriculum manuals which cover the four transportation topics of public transportation, transportation and the environment, transportation safety, and bicycles for elementary, secondary and adult levels, this manual covers the topic of bicycling for grades 6-9. The manual contains forty-seven learning activities grouped…

The 1976 Rural New York Conference focused on unresolved social problems in rural America, with particular attention to needs of rural women in New York. Growing out of a course on rural poverty and social change at Syracuse University, the conference was initiated and planned primarily by students. Proceedings include "Commentaries" by:…

A broad educational background is necessary to meet ever changing occupational fields, and career education is an approach incorporating career information within the regular school subjects. For the elementary level, career awareness is the main thrust in this ongoing program to integrate students and community. Self-development and understanding…

By virtue of a Title III Elementary and Secondary Education Act grant, a student interest inventory instrument was devised to evaluate apprehensions of students attending 5 different high schools prior to consolidation of the Olympia Community Unit District 16 in Illinois. Initially administered to 183 ninth graders, 228 tenth graders, and 185…

This report presents the preliminary findings of a research project designed to investigate the ways local school systems in the North deal with de facto school segregation. The communities chosen for the investigation are those 95 cities in the Permanent Community Sample of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) which are non-Southern and…

This manual is designed to assist school board members, administrators, and teachers in the tasks of assessing present educational organizations and developing new ones. Each chapter in the manual has two major sections, the first containing a general discussion of the chapter topic and the second containing detailed guidelines which suggest…

Volume II of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics presents special studies from the matrix of data which allowed further policy relevant analysis. The ten special studies, each corresponding to a chapter in the volume, are as follows: Housing and Homeownership; Residential Mobility and Family Housing Adjustments; Modes of Travel to Work; The…

A guide for beginning employment for female liberal arts graduates (referred to as FLAGs), this book describes 14 fields found to be presently most accessible to FLAGs without advanced degrees: advertising, the art world, banking and finance, book publishing, computer programing, fashion (and beauty), films, Government, magazine and newspaper…

This collection of 10 teacher's resource guides was developed by the Cobb County Georgia Career Education Project and contains the 10 units: (1) for grade 1: The School, Careers in Public Service; and What Does My Family Do All Day?; (2) for grades 3 and 4: Commercial Airlines and Airports, Careers in Transportation; Trains, Careers in…

This is the report of a five-year plan to reorganize the Harrisburg public schools, designed to achieve the goals of educational excellence, racial balance, equity, stability, and economy if properly implemented. For example, the plan includes special centers from pre-kindergarten through second grade, and an educational plaza for grades 6 through…

This report is intended as a summative overview of the current research and program information related to the rescheduled school year. As such, it deals with (1) present models of rescheduling, (2) the school vacation, (3) basic comparative cost analysis, (4) busing requirements, (5) curriculum design requirements, (6) career opportunities for…

This document is the text of the brief for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, October 1970. The statement of the motion to file brief is followed by the brief and argument comprising (1) the present state of the law; (2) the "root and branch" of the…

As part of a study on development and the quality of life in northwestern Wisconsin, questions concerning important problems, public services, and environmental issues were asked of samples of 150 people in each of 4 west central counties (Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, and Polk) in 1974. Responses to similar questions asked in a 1973 study of St. Croix…

This booklet, developed by parents of children with developmental disabilities, is intended to help policy makers understand major parental concerns about raising a child with a disability. The specific issues addressed are: (1) the special needs of families with a disabled child; (2) the right to community integration; (3) the continuing…