Created in 1961 by the Washington State Legislature, the Youth Development and Conservation Corps (YDCC) affords youth and young men aged 14-21 employment opportunities in conservation programs that entail developing, improving, and maintaining natural and artificial recreation areas for the general public. It is designed to help young…

A report of the Illinois Gifted Program Evaluation, the document first presents origins, policies, and scope of the reimbursement section of the Illinois Plan for Program Development for Gifted Children. Outlined is the evaluation design, in which subjects were 34 school districts representing a 10% stratified random sample of 340 districts. Each…

This report is based upon a survey of the supply and distribution of manpower in a wide variety of health professions and occupations, and of current educational resources in Michigan for the preparation of health care manpower. Part I of the report includes general recommendations, relating the planning and coordinating role of the State Board of…

Described are the plans and non-categorical special education program toward which Texas school districts will move. The program is designed to provide services to handicapped children (age range 3 to 21 years) in sparsely populated rural areas as well as heavily populated areas. All Texas school districts will adopt the new program by 1976. In…

A 2-year study reports that one of the most neglected social agencies in the United States today is the Child Protective Services. This specialized area of child welfare is a program which seeks to prevent neglect, abuse and exploitation of children by "reaching out" with social services to stabilize family life. The service is usually initiated…

This report summarizes information received from State Research Coordinating Units (RCU's) regarding research activities conducted under Section 131 (b) of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. The purpose of the report is to provide information that will help states to be aware of research and development conducted by other states, thus…

Intended for public school administrators, teachers, and speech and hearing clinicians, the document contains guidelines for setting up programs to implement the statewide mandatory special education plan for hearing impaired children in Indiana. Outlined are procedures to follow in comprehensive programing for the following categories of the…

During the years 1967-69, the Instruction Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Education held a series of hearings to pinpoint the financial and organizational problems of educational television in the state of Washington. The problems revealed by this investigation prompted the Subcommittee to contract with Dr. Kenneth Christiansen, Director of…

The third wave of conservation--a movement directed at improving the quality of our total environment and developing an environmentally literate, responsive, and responsible citizenry--is highlighted in this speech, serving as the basis and need for developing environmental education programs. Identifying and developing educational programs that…

As part of Tennessee's educational needs assessment strategy, a study was conducted to determine parental perceptions of educational needs. In 1971, 3,150 copies of two forms (randomly distributed) of the School Assessment Questionnaire for Parents were distributed to the parents in six target school systems. Data were analyzed using the Sigma-9…

The Third Annual Report on the Florida Migrant Health Project covered migrant health activities engaged in by 14 counties for the period May 1, 1965, through April 30, 1966. The project was designed to develop a basic statewide program of health services for migrant farm workers and their dependents in Florida. Three of the 12 objectives included…

Guidelines are provided for analyzing the content of the various Federal/State plans specifically mentioned in the Developmental Disabilities Services and Construction Act (PL91-517). A Federal/State plan and the relevance of State plan review of the planning process are explained. State plan review is shown to be an important tool for assessing…

This first report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio sets forth a course of action to improve student learning by better use of teaching staffs. The most important needs of the children are determined to be an individual capacity for problem solving (the development of this skill must begin with a mastery of "the three…

The report is said to provide a plan for meeting the total needs (educational, personal, and vocational) of the mentally retarded for both service and residential living in Indiana. The plan proposes to bring the state hospital and community closer together and to offer several options that include the natural, foster, and small group home and the…

Designed to aid decision-makers at the state and local levels, the Vocational Education Evaluation Project (VEEP) will: (1) develop a planning system which will include a computer-assisted system for gathering data on vocational education in Virginia, (2) develop a system to upgrade planning and evaluation in the classroom, (3) identify process…