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Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1988
As directed by the Florida State Legislature, the Postsecondary Education Commission examined Florida's needs in the area of nursing education. Following the executive summary, the introduction reviews the commission charge and activities. Major topics addressed include: the nursing profession (introduction, history, licensure, careers, and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Certification, Higher Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1987
Issues concerning telecommunications courses offered by California universities and colleges are reviewed with a focus on the progress made over the past 6 years regarding the lack of incentives for faculty to use instructional technology in their teaching, lack of coordination among interested institutions and agencies, and high initial costs for…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Communications Satellites, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Radio
Randall, John D.; And Others – 1988
The "Basic Agenda" of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) is developed annually to establish priorities for the community college system and act as the Board's chief policy-making document. The 1988-89 agenda identifies 20 major issues facing the colleges and offers concrete solutions for their resolution…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1988
This syllabus, which replaces the New York State Education Department publication "Mechanical Drawing and Design," is intended for use in teaching a high school course in design and drawing for production. The materials included in the guide reflect a shift away from the conventional methods of teaching design and drawing to a greater…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Decision Making, Design, Designers
Noreen, Robert, Ed. – 1987
The Conference on English and Mathematics brought together 100 faculty members from the California Community Colleges and the California State University to address such topics as curricular standards; admission, placement, and exit testing; improvement of transition from upper- to lower-division study; and the integration of English and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, College Mathematics
Castor, Betty – 1988
The Florida Department of Education (FDE) is developing an educational blueprint for the 1990s with a strong commitment to vocational and adult education. Commitments are being made to implement career education concepts, extend job awareness experiences to the elementary grades, counsel students to ensure early career plans, enhance vocational…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Michigan Governor's Office, Lansing. – 1988
Although Michigan has one of the best trained work forces in the nation, the skill gap between what the marketplace needs and what its workers can offer is continuing to widen. Michigan must develop an adult training and education system that is customer driven and customer sensitive, emphasizes shared responsibility of stakeholders, empowers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1988
This long-range plan was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA; Public Law 98-480) and to guide the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in the fulfillment of its statutory mission. The plan provides a framework for the establishment or expansion of programs to carry out the purposes…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Government Role, Guidelines, Library Administration
Kohl, John W.; And Others – 1983
Intended to stimulate discussion by Montana state leaders, this paper examines critical issues raised by the application of new technologies in public education in terms of the challenges they present to the Montana educational system. A statement of each issue is followed by a discussion of its implications. The issues examined relate to the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Individual Needs, Information Science
Barbe, Richard; And Others – 1984
A conceptual model is presented for a state-wide needs assessment that will provide perspectives for charting future actions in teacher education in Georgia. Need was seen for data in four areas: the general economic picture and projections for the state; available pool of students for recruiting into teaching; possible changes in curriculum…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Long Range Planning
Pile, Wilson, Ed. – 1982
Statewide planning for higher education, with specific reference to Massachusetts, is discussed in a 1982 Alden Seminar position paper, comments regarding the position paper, and an overview of the overall seminar. In "One Half Revolution, One Half Status Quo: Remarks on A Long Range Plan for Public Higher Education in Massachusetts,"…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Planning, Governance, Government School Relationship
Enell, Nancy C. – 1983
This paper is based on information related to the use of computers in special education within California, and on the experiences of the San Juan Unified School District in using computer information for special education research, evaluation and planning. The majority of special education planning agencies in California have some type of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Managed Instruction, Computers, Data Collection
Hoffman, Lee McGraw – 1983
Louisiana's State-Funded Compensatory/Remedial Program requires two different evaluations: a study of the statewide program and local evaluations conducted by the 66 public school systems involved in the program. The State Education Agency (SEA) evaluation unit is responsible for (1) conducting the statewide evaluation and (2) exercising quality…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Phillips, Melinda R.; And Others – 1979
This handbook explains the components of the North Carolina Career Information and Guidance Data Base. (This database is a three-volume statewide career information and guidance system that is being built to offer counselors and clients computerized access to standardized occupational and educational information.) Outlined in the handbook are the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Databases, Disabilities, Educational Counseling
Jurado, Eugene A.; Wolff, Warren W. – 1982
A study examined the feasibility of adding employer-generated job titles to the North Carolina Unemployment Insurance Individual Wage Record as a means to providing a more comprehensive source of occupational data than has been possible with currently operating federal and state systems. During the study, researchers conducted structured…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Employment Projections, Feasibility Studies, Information Needs
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