Vocational education for the disadvantaged and the handicapped in West Virginia at the local level needs specific teacher training programs at the college level, clear definitions and procedures for applying criteria that identify disadvantaged groups, and reorganization into integrated curriculums to avoid scheduling problems. The problems of…

Current evaluation activities in the New Jersey school system are surveyed, and recommendations for future evaluation efforts are made. The current activities and future developments of school (or school district), statewide, and project (or program) evaluation are discussed individually. The following program objectives are suggested: to raise…

The common goals of Michigan education are grouped into four areas. The goals in the first area, citizenship and morality, deal with morality, citizenship and social responsibility, and rights and responsibilities of students. The goals in the second area, democracy and equal opportunity, deal with equality of educational opportunity, education of…

Public Education in Colorado is serving as a demonstration project for the Cooperative Accountability Project, as well as for its own accountability statute. An analysis of accountability progress resulting from data gathered from the second annual accountability report is discussed and summarized. Current Colorado Department of Education…

Information is provided about approximately 120 recently conducted, career education programs for handicapped adolescents. Programs and projects are presented alphabetically by state, and were selected by state personnel as representative of good vocational education for the handicapped with the potential of replication in other states. Usually…

The importance of state planning for comprehensive personnel development prompted this topic to be used as the theme for the 1971 State Directors' Leadership Development Seminar. Following the Seminar, a committee drew together the concepts presented plus additional information for inclusion in this publication. More efficient and effective…

Reported upon are a total of 40 projects funded in Florida under PL 91-230, Title VI, Part B, Education of the Handicapped Act, which provides funds to states to assist in the initiation, expansion, and improvement of programs and projects for the education of handicapped children at preschool through secondary levels. Project abstracts of the…

Career education was officially established in Arizona during the 1971 legislative sessions. Three goals of career education, as stated by the state advisory council, are to help students: (1) learn to live, (2) learn to learn, and (3) learn to make a living. The program is available for students at all levels of education, from kindergarten…

The proceedings of the National Conference on State Plan Development contain a brief summary of the discussion about the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, the draft Regulations for State Plan Programs, the draft State Plan Guide, and the working papers presented at the Conference. Also included are the Conference program, staff,…

Results of an evaluation on the program effectiveness of the administration of Project 750 are provided. Project 750 is described to involve the removing of Massachusetts children suffering moderate to severe emotional disturbance from regular classrooms and placing them in special classes designed to maximize the children's educational potential…

In April 1976, 95 educational program evaluators were asked the question, "What do you think will be the relationship between the new collective bargaining law (SB160) and the operation and evaluation of A-127 (state and federally funded) education programs?" Working in small groups, participants accomplished the following: (1) They…

Presented is an overview of the gifted and talented students' program funded in Michigan by the State Aid Act (Section 47) and involving 12 elementary and secondary level pilot projects. An introduction includes a history of and general information about the Michigan program for gifted and talented students. Provided are brief descriptions of each…

Presented are the proceedings of two workshop/conferences given during 1974 on the strategies of 2-year colleges in responding to the career education needs of disabled students in New York State. It is noted that a total of 34 New York community colleges and 23 federal, state, and regional institutions sent representatives to at least one of the…

A summary of recent state activity to increase the transfer of academic credit between two- and four-year colleges and universities. (Author/MLF)

In Virginia, continuous and extended efforts are being made to identify and provide the inservice training needed by teachers in agriculture through a series of State, speical interest, and area workshops. The article relates the procedures used to plan and provide inservice programs, and some related problems. (Author/AJ)