In 1969-70 the New York State Education Department adopted standardized fiscal forms for local education agencies to use for most federally funded programs. The standard forms have been an improvement and have been readily acknowledged as simplifying the application and funding procedure. Since 1969-70, changes, such as indirect cost procedures…

A perceived need for teacher inservice workshops aimed at developing the career education effort led to the holding of a Workshop on Workshops in Seattle, Washington, which produced this guide to the preparation and running of inservice workshops to acquaint teachers with career education concepts and with the integration of these concepts into…

This project was undertaken to develop a formal guide for planning foreign language teachers' conferences. This work is a response to the need for guidance in planning meetings expressed by past chairmen of the conferences of the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers. The project was conducted by: (1) researching both the published…

These guidelines for conducting a manpower utilization study are designed for independent use or in conjunction with any existing work measurement program for determining manpower requirements. Although the instructions are complete enough for use by themselves, a bibliography of publications is included to provide additional background…

This document presents an application of cost-benefit analysis to a hypothetical university parking problem. After discussing cost-benefit analysis in general, the document applies this technique to hypothetical data in light of a checklist for general cost-benefit procedure. The checklist includes the following steps: (1) examine and quantify…

This handbook offers suggestions to guide students in the skills of using media to make a maximum contribution to their intellectual and personal development. The ideas presented can be useful for media specialists and teachers in any grade or subject area. The teacher has the responsbility to: (1) be acquainted with the media center's resources,…

Audiovisual aids are properly used in reading when they "turn students on," and they are abused when they fail to do so or when they actually "turn students off." General guidelines one could use in sorting usable from unusable aids are (1) Has the teacher saved time by using an audiovisual aid? (2) Is the aid appropriate to the sophistication…

Reviews publications supporting the concept that carefully planned special characteristics of a classroom can facilitate desired activities both for the teacher and students. The author denotes these facilitating associations as the "suggestiveness of space," and applies the term "limiting conditions" to spacial characteristics…

This brochure on high school equivalency certification and accreditation describes the policy for accepting high school level General Educational Development (GED) tests as qualifying criteria; the reading comprehension and other GED tests; GED testing centers in Montana; application, fees, and retesting; and types of formal military training for…

This booklet examines the training required by staff employed in housekeeping departments in the hotel and catering industry. It details specifications of particular tasks--baths/cloakrooms; service pantries and utility rooms; beds; furniture/fittings; floors/walls and ceilings; carpets/upholstery/soft furnishings; linen handling; linen room work;…

This guide to the functioning of kindergartens and the establishing of new centers is divided into three sections. The first section is concerned primarily with the bureaucratic structure of kindergarten agencies in Australia. It describes the Kindergarten Union, its councils and committees, the Board of Management, the Australian Pre-School…

These guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual scientific and technical thesauri for information retrieval are published in an attempt to lay the basis for compatability, both at the present and in the future, of thesauri that are being elaborated simultaneously in most of the disciplines of science, basic as well as…

This manual (1) explains the nature and purpose of ESEA Title IV grants; (2) describes the types of programs that may receive grants--the inservice training of school personnel to deal with problems incident to desegregation, and the use of advisory specialists in school desegregation; and (3) outlines procedures for preparing a grant proposal.…

This report contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations that emerged from a study of "Functions and Goals of Oklahoma Higher Education." Many individuals and groups were involved in the process which culminated in this report, including a 600-member citizens' group, a special 140-member citizens' advisory committee, several…

Lists are given of buildings, equipment and supplies necessary to establish and maintain a complete program of vocational education in agriculture for high school students, out-of-school youth, and adults in the community. Quantities and guidelines are specified. Photographs and diagrammatic representations are also included. (FS)