This paper provides an overview of recent development in the teaching and study of the uncommonly taught languages and attempts to provide a rationale for a continuing interest in the field. General trends are noted and important recent publications are mentioned. The types of pedagogical materials being developed and their relative value is also…

An accounting is made in this report of the work of the Office of the Commissioner of Education during Fiscal Year 1970 and reflects the state of American education today. The Commissioner envisions the Federal role in education to be one of increasing the effectiveness of the human and financial resources of our schools, colleges and…

The requirements for various types of communication systems for the Fort Lincoln First Facility are presented in this section. No attempt is made to specify hardware or to select hardware suppliers, but instead a description is provided that can be used to obtain designs and quotations from such suppliers. A "communication system" is defined as…

This document is made up of Agenda item 62--Education of youth in the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms: report of the Secretary-General; and Agenda item 92--The problems and needs of youth and its participation in national development. Agenda item 62 included: an introduction; action taken by member states to ensure that young…

This brief discusses the difficulties created by the lack of clear relationship between formal and adult education systems in Canada, the chaotic conjunction of the two systems--one pressing upward and the other pressing downward; and proposes continuing education as a solution to the problem posed by the present educational structure. A study of…

A questionnaire survey, conducted among the professional staff of the Kansas State Department of Education, identified need studies that had been previously undertaken in conjunction with department activities, and solicited staff opinions concerning educational needs. The staff reported that 25 need studies had been conducted; the staff…

The first 28 pages summarize the whole report. The rest is devoted to the Progress Report itself. Part I deals with the Regents' review of the progress reports of the State University of New York, the City University of New York, and the private colleges and universities in the state. Included in this consideration are reports of the institutions'…

This volume contains five state-of-the-knowledge papers commissioned by ERIC/CEA (now ERIC/CEM) and presented at a conference sponsored by ERIC/CEA and CASEA. The authors and the titles of the papers are: Willis W. Harman, "Nature of Our Changing Society: Implications for Schools"; Richard C. Williams, "Teacher Militancy: Implications for the…

This paper provides a brief overview of the conceptual approach used in the initial version of the WICHE Resource Requirements Prediction Model (RRPM-1). RRPM-1 is an institutional-oriented, computer-based model which simulates the cost of operating a college campus over a 3- to 10-year time frame. The model may be viewed as a management tool to…

The last of seven modules on team teaching, this document deals with the prerequisites for good planning sessions. The major objectives are to acquaint teachers with a variety of team planning purposes for improving instruction, to show the relationship between the goals of team teaching and the planning completed at varying times of the year, to…

Selected presentations from the National Conference on Program Planning and Evaluation held in Washington, D.C., March 12-14, 1969 are reported in this mimeographed publication: (1) "Vocational Education: From a World of Stability to a World of Change," by G. Venn, (2) "Staffing the State Department to Meet the Needs of Vocational…

The document contains analyses of post-secondary student enrollments in Minnesota during the 1967-1968 academic year, the origin of students in Minnesota higher education institutions by counties of residence, and the migration of students to and from Minnesota for higher education. The data, compiled from institutional enrollment reports…

A report made by a study committee to the Board of Higher Education for its use in developing a "master plan" for higher education in Illinois. Contents include the charge to the study committee, its recommendations and its rationale. Recommendations consider optimum and maximum size, students to be served, future growth, institutional planning,…

The Conference of Ministers of Education of European Member States of Unesco on Access to Higher Education was held in Vienna from November 20 to 25, 1967. Part I of the document contains 3 working papers that were presented to the conference for discussion and subsequent recommendations. The first, "Comparative Statistical Data on Access to…

A simulation of a community college in an urban setting is presented to test certain hypotheses and to accumulate ideas about how planning can become more comprehensive and successful. Included in the simulation is information concerned with the program, background and characteristics of the community and its population, statement of problems,…