FORMULATION OF EDUCATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS IS REPORTED. THE FORMULATION CONSISTS OF ESTABLISHING THE DEFINITION, CONTENT, RESPONSIBILITY AND ROLES OF PLANNERS, THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PLANNING GROUP AND THE TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES TO BE USED. A SAMPLE OUTLINE FOR EDUCATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS AND A FORMAT FOR INDIVIDUAL COURSES, TIME REQUIREMENTS…

A 25-MEMBER COMMITTEE OF BUSINESS TEACHERS, CITY SUPERVISORS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION, SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS, COLLEGE PROFESSORS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF COUNCILS ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION AND THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION REACTED TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING CERTAIN PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN ECONOMIC EDUCATION, AND…

This report is a history of Iowa's post-secondary education, outlining various studies, legislation, and possible restructuring of provisions of the existing Iowa Code that might lead to a combination of 2-year junior college education and area vocational education into a single comprehensive institution. The final pattern, however, was the…

To be more useful in educational planning, educational research must be (1) more broadly conceived to incorporate tasks and techniques from disciplines outside of education, (2) more systematic in the sense that both research and development must be more programmatic in nature, and (3) reoriented so that the results of research, whether called…

This handbook is intended to provide school officials and members of school councils and advisory committees with helpful information about different ways to plan for school improvement. It focuses on the process of planning, rather than on the process of writing a plan, and therefore does not include any planning forms or instructions for using…

This booklet is intended to aid Pennsylvania school officials in developing a five-year long-range plan for their districts, as mandated by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education. The booklet is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Guidelines and Instructions," discusses the long-range planning process and explains how the forms in Part 2…

This handbook provides references to ideas and programs that touch every aspect of comprehensive educational planning. The first section, Planning Overview, explains the steps in a comprehensive planning process. The second section, Information Resources, describes the New Jersey library system and other New Jersey and national sources of…

This selected bibliography is intended to serve as a supplement to a previous bibliography listing publications suggested for inclusion in a library on educational planning. The additional citations presented in this volume were suggested by readers of the earlier bibliography. Only publications currently available for acquisition have been…

Designed to assist present and future vocational and technical educators in the establishment and use of advisory committees, the paper clarifies the functions of different types of advisory committees in vocational-technical education, identifies areas in which advisory committees may give guidance, discusses the formation of advisory committees,…

An examination of case studies suggests that rational processes were not entirely at work in the planning and conception of new, innovative schools. The rational model that serves as the foundation of our information systems assumes that a compelling professional need triggers a search for solutions; and, therefore, school personnel are eager to…

Growing dissatisfaction with the linkage of educational research and development information and products to actual school classroom procedures has motivated many researchers and practitioners to uncover new linkage systems. Among the new approaches suggested is that of building on already existing communication networks in schools and across the…

With its growing influence and power, the women's movement is directing pressure on the Air Force to permit women to attend the Air Force Academy. This study traces the history of the women's movement in America and examines the specific avenues by which the present Air Force policy against admitting women to the academy could be abrogated.…

The hypothesis presented in this paper is that there is a clear and powerful trend in U.S. higher education in the direction of people for education rather than education for people; that this trend has reached the point of actually redefining the operational notion of education and people; that it applies to both students and faculty; and that it…

The purpose of this paper is to suggest several alternative patterns of organizing Alberta's present post-secondary educational system. This purpose is achieved by: (1) examining the generally accepted goals of higher education; (2) advancing several arguments for and against government intervention; (3) an analysis of several plans now in…

The need for planning in higher education is more urgent today than ever before. This paper argues that planning is the only method by which colleges and universities can reasonably expect to come to terms with the financial, social, and political crises of our times. Pioneering efforts over the past generation to develop the budget as a principal…