County commissioners from Florida's fifteen most rural and fifteen most urban counties were compared in terms of their personal and social characteristics and the relative importance they attribute to selected content and clientele of Cooperative Extension Service programs. Association between these two comparisons was then assessed to determine…

From year to year the types of disputes that courts are asked to settle regarding teachers and other school employees vary considerably. This variation may result in part from previous litigation that was directly related to teachers and presumably settled specific issues regarding them, has modified the apparent urgency of such litigation, or has…

A study evaluated the effectiveness of the three week 1969 University of British Columbia technical fisheries short course in terms of knowledge gain and changing attitudes (especially toward regulatory agencies) during the course. Program content stressed scientific, rather than vocational, aspects of fisheries. Data on 22 adult students of the…

Racial factors in personnel selection procedures and the performance of racial and socio-economic groups on a testing instrument widely used in personnel selection and in public schools are discussed. The study questions whether individual test items are relatively easier for one racial group than for another, and whether there is a relationship…

Results are given of a six-week effort to (1) define the knowledge and skill requirements for successful performance as a Planning-Programming-Budgeting (PPB) systems analyst, (2) determine how these requirements are best acquired, and (3) evaluate the implications for the training programs of the Civil Service Commission. The findings in relation…

The influence of the Three Week Residential Seminar in PPB offered by the Civil Service Commission on the job performance, attitudes, and career development of participants who attended the first 15 seminars was studied. The seminar program was developed to retrain experienced analysts (financial, budget, and management) and PPB output user…

Teachers made economic gains in 18 of the 25 economically motivated teacher strikes occurring in Minnesota in 1981. Analysis suggests that school boards' prestrike offers strongly influenced strike activity, that public-sector bargaining is in an early developmental stage, and that labor markets for certified teachers are statewide. (PGD)

Discusses the Civil Servant Module, a new component of Global Systems Simulation, a comprehensive person-computer model for investigating international affairs. Its telecommunication capability, logistics, functions, spatial flexibility, and advantages are described and its implications for applying Global Systems Simulation as a research and…

This book contains a collection of case studies that provide a variety of situations in managing or working with marginal employees in a school system. Managing Marginal School Employees will serve as a primary or companion text for administrator candidates or current administrators that include dilemmas for the student to think about, discuss,…

Impact Aid is a federal formula grant program designed to assist local school districts that have lost property tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt federal property or that have experienced increased expenditures due to the enrollment of federally connected children. Federally connected children are those whose parents pay minimal or no…

This report provides basic statistical data for Idaho State University, and includes both point-of-time data as well as trend data. The information is divided into sections emphasizing students, programs, faculty and staff, finances, and physical facilities. Student data includes enrollment, geographical distribution, student/faculty ratios,…

This bulletin was prepared by the Committee on Vocational Education of the National Education Association. The objective was to prepare a report which would be of assistance to the average superintendent of schools in a community of ordinary size, were he to feel the need of introducing such work into his home school system. The committee, which…

The purpose of the present study is to ascertain in what ways we in the United States may develop industrial education so that it may be of the greatest service to industry and to industrial workers, as well as to the whole people. The economic viewpoint and economic aspects have dominated the pedagogical, and the practical outcome has at all…

This analysis of the important industry-centered spare time school system in Communist China is a substantially revised version of a paper originally prepared for oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in March 1963. The author is specializing in the study of Communist China at Cornell University, where he is…

Describes the process by which trainers designed and ran an employee clerical skills programs and prepared modules, such as communication skills and creative thinking/problem solving, to be included in courses where needed. The flexibility of this learner-centered training was more effective than any standard course or package. (MF)