Based on responses to opinionnaires, questionnaires, and public forums, the final report of the People's Forum on Education lists 15 specific areas that are primary concerns of the people of New Mexico. (Author/IRT)

Data about the availability, accessibility, and organization of Information and Referral services from 133 public and private service providers for people with developmental disabilities showed that Information and Referral was a widely available service although there were problems in service provisions incuding lack of awareness about services…

Uses data collected in a survey of North Carolina school superintendents to answer questions about school staff awareness of emergency management, the status of emergency planning in different school districts, and problems regarding plan development and distribution. (FL)

This document provides a look at the state of the arts in the southeastern region of the National Art Education Education Association. The data for the report were collected originally to assist the Georgia Art Education Association to advocate for the arts in education during the year 2000. It proved to be difficult to obtain consistent data from…

Employers look at Illinois junior college occupational education. (Editor)

Findings of a masters thesis study designed to answer the question Does our automotive instructional program teach what industry uses?" (GR)

Summarizes information gathered State by State on policies regarding the paraprofessional in the educational system. (LN)

A project instituted to study the problem of inadequate and poor-quality summer programs for teenagers is discussed, and a list of "programs for the seventies is given. (DB)

Educators in Virginia were asked to identify instructional objectives in social studies for grades K-12. Results indicated that the grades K-3 should focus on affective educational goals, grades 4-6 goals should emphasize cognitive outcomes, grade 7-8 goals should stress skill development and cognitive educational objectives, and grades 9-12…

A survey was conducted of accredited colleges and universities in Pennsylvania to investigate knowledge of alternative community living arrangement (ALA) services for developmental disabled persons. Most existing programs in training ALA personnel were offered by small colleges located outside the two large metropolitan centers in Pennsylvania…

This survey presents the teacher salary scales of each of New Jersey's school districts. Summary tables outline average and median state salaries and correlate New Jersey teachers' salaries to inflation and the consumer price index for the period 1973-1980. (SJL)

Investigated the opinions of both psychologists and counselors relative to the services that a counselor licensure law for private practice would allow. Responses to a questionnaire (N=202) indicated that counselors and psychologists have similar attitudes regarding the inclusion of psychotherapy in a counselor licensing law. (RC)