Vocational education is a fallacy in developing nations in that it is expected to solve social and economic problems that no single remedy can solve and that it is often planned and delivered in a way inconsistent with the realities of its environment. (SK)

Roles, perspectives, and skills of superintendents and their fit to the Organizational Elements Model (OEM) are examined by defining the elements in the model and providing examples of applications, analyzing superintendents' roles in the planning process, and discussing a method of determining the roles of superintendents in different situations.…

The annual report of the President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is presented. After discussing Orwell's implications, he describes the current status of mathematics education and suggests what mathematics teachers need to do to improve instruction. (MNS)

The School Attendance Review Boards, better known as SARB, combines community and school resources with coordinated effort to solve the problem of student absenteeism. (Author/RK)

Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)

Outlines the approach of a British educational committee to draft proposals for a secondary chemistry syllabus at the N and F levels. (MLH)

The author shares some of the failures and successes of the application of the futures perspective in college teaching, government planning and evaluation, and educational administration at the college level. (Author/IRT)

Offers a brief description of the overall activities and methods employed in Project SWEP and provides some detail on the ways in which a futures-orientation and methods associated with futures studies were used in the project. (Author/IRT)

Changes in planning theory and practice in Norway have been characterized by widening the scope of "educational matters," broadening the conceptual framework to include elements of all the social sciences, and changing the conception of planning as an administrative function. (Author/IRT)

In this report, the Commission considers a proposal by the Santa Clara Community College District to establish an educational center in the community of Canyon Country. The district was created in 1968 when the communities of Valencia, Newhall, Canyon Country, Agua Dulce, and Val Verde voted overwhelmingly for its establishment. It serves a…

This document is a guide to student assessment for special education services, eligibility determination, and program planning for Alabama students. To present an accurate and fair picture of the individual assessed requires more than one test score or observation. This document, which is formatted for easy desk reference for daily use by the…

This June 2003 issue of "Federal Literacy Facts" contains the following sections: (1) Parliamentary Committee Releases Groundbreaking Report on Literacy; (2) Key Recommendations from the Report; (3) Literacy Community's Strength Influences Committee Members; (4) What's Next: Where Do the Recommendations Go from Here?

This paper analyzes the need for providing additional undergraduate enrollment capacity at the University of California (UC) and of alternatives for gaining such capacity at UC and, by extension, other public research universities. In addition to the creation of new campuses, other approaches are capable of giving significant additional capacity…

This paper identifies how comparative educators have chosen to visually represent the field of development education since about 1963. This is an attempt to historicize the vision as scholars struggle with the representational dilemmas and opportunities of late modernity/postmodernity. The paper is organized in three parts. Part 1 illustrates how…

This guide is intended to guide local discussion and assist public school staff in implementing standards, assessment, and reporting procedures under the policies of the Nebraska State Board of Education. In 1998, the State Board of Education adopted the Nebraska Learning Educational Achievement through Rigorous Nebraska Standards (Nebraska…