This document presents excerpts from the Society for College and University Planning's West Coast Regional Long Range Planning Workshop, held January 17-19, 1974 in San Diego. The remarks illustrate the range of options available to administrators seeking to provide educational resources to the entire community. The first of the two-part summary…

The purpose of this report is to discuss and examine the implications of a May 1974 resolution by the Finnish cabinet calling for the reform of secondary education. Basically, the cabinet resolution outlined groundrules for educational planning and development to ensure proper integration of the vocational and secondary school program with the…

Educational research is concerned with providing bases for improving education and so needs to study cause-effect relations in the educational process. Despite two decades of ferment and innovation, the instruction of most students has been affected little, if at all. Local change programs in education tend to be those that make the most apparent…

The purpose of the study was to provide data and interpretations to help policy makers of the Appalachian Regional Commission in improving the quality and quantity of teachers in Appalachia. Questionnaires were sent to a 20% random stratified sample of approximately 162,000 teachers in the Appalachian portions of 11 states: Alabama, Kentucky,…

This document is the second volume of the feasibility study report for the Wisconsin Elementary Teacher Education Project. It provides in part 1 data on program, planning and budgeting, including cost figures for preparing students in the present and new programs, marginal expenses, and costs for implementing the program on other campuses. Part 2…

The impact of predicted technological developments on educational broadcasting depends on the long range planning done to exploit them. It is expected that in the future computers will be used extensively by broadcasting agencies to collect, analyze, and provide, on call, a wide range of data about audience groupings. Determination of program…

To assist the Delaware Department of Public Instruction in designing and implementing a modern strategy for coordinating educational planning in the State, this report reviews techniques employed by other State educational agencies and offers a proposal for developing a planning unit within the department. Some specific recommendations for…

The widespread feeling that college officials neglect and ignore student needs in the college curriculum, as well as a concern for the alternatives available to students in the area of general education precipitated the development of this program. The program's directions and goals are systematically elaborated in this report. The basic direction…

The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct, inform, and educate. The first chapter discusses games in a general manner. The next five chapters present the use of games for improving education, for guidance in occupational choice and training, and for solving problems and decision making in physical and social sciences,…

This report, one of a series of eight, provides findings from a study of the Ohio pupil transportation system, a locally administered system partly regulated and financially supported by the State. After reviewing current transportation facilities for both regular and special education students, the study assesses various alternatives.…

A number of factors--including the reorganization of school administrative structures, the availability of new technology, increased competition among groups for limited resources, and changing patterns of communication--suggest an increased need for quantitative analysis in the school district decision-making process. One area of school…

This document contains the final progress report and final internal evaluation for PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III. The first section describes the project's major activities leading to development of a master plan for education in Fresno, California. Significant modifications of operational plans are described and supplementary…

This report by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to the Governor and the General Assembly identifies the major issues facing the state, and makes recommendations. Tennessee must expand educational opportunity for its young people and provide more programs and assistance for disadvantaged and low income youth. The community college program…

Planning, both as an academic field and as a profession, is in a dilemma involving the adoption of two contradictory public philosophies. The more established philosophy orients itself to the efficiency of the whole system, while the second orients to particular groups and claims that adequate participation in the system is denied these groups as…

Those public school vocational programs which involve the expenditure of Texas state funds are the focus of this report. Demographic, economic, enrollment, and vocational education expenditure data were collected and are presented. Projections based on these data are made through 1975. In addition, 13 problems and specific action recommendations…