Agricultural Education teacher educators are interested in and are making efforts to keep their training programs abreast of changing patterns and emphases in agricultural education. There is a real sense of interest and need among those people interviewed in this study for a better means of communication among teacher training institutions…

The authors provide a brief description of Teacher Cost Models--a computerized mathematical model that allows educational officials, using a specified set of input information, to forecast the provincial (or regional) teacher wage-bill at the operating level (1-year) and multi-year planning level (five years). The model has been successfully…

This document begins with a section that discusses the demand for education and the identification of the broad characteristics of an educational system that would fulfill the needs and aspirations of the individual and satisfy the requirements of society. It outlines the history of the crisis in educational finance, discusses the problem of…

This guide is for teachers and administrators involved in the preparation and implementation of kindergarten programs. Part I, in a series of captioned photographs, reviews basic qualities and needs of young children. Part II examines historical events important in the development of early childhood education, and describes several educational…

This report on some efforts being made in France to improve the education of the socially and culturally disadvantaged is presented for such value as it may have to American educational planners in their search for solution to this difficult problem. For the purposes of this study the term "socially and culturally handicapped or…

This study of the impact of unrestricted federal aid on State bureaucracies describes how federal money was spent in nine SEA's (particularly in Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina). It also examines whether Title V promoted a rethinking of SEA priorities and led to a "thorough overhaul" of SEA activities. Study findings reveal…

The California Education Information System (CEIS) consists of two subsystems of computer programs designed to process business and pupil data for local school districts. Creating and maintaining records concerning the students in the schools, the pupil subsystem provides for a central repository of school district identification information and a…

Funding of much creative effort to solve educational problems is riding on effective states needs assessment and, therefore, suggests a model for accountability as well as identification of cognitive and affective needs. Concepts for model constructs are several, including the learner's unique self-social system: the school and classroom with its…

This pamphlet is designed to inform the parents of disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students of the provisions of ESEA Title I, and of the possible abuses of Title I funds which might otherwise be allocated to the direct improvement of their children's education. Its contents include: parents' guide to ESEA Title I: what it is and…

This one-week institute emphasized the development of patterns of administration and coordination of supportive services to help students who find it difficult to obtain adequate occupational training for reasons beyond their control. The institute provided participants the opportunity to develop strategies and models that could be followed or…

The study investigates the formulation of British colonial education policy and attempts to evaluate the hypothesis that the policies formulated by the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies reflected a consistent attempt to orient education policy in the colonies to the local needs for human resource development. The use of historical…

A fully developed planning, programing, and budgeting system comprises more than the program budget and its financial information; it is a system of analysis intended to assist the decisionmaker in choosing among alternative courses of action for the school district programs. Its most salient feature is its usefulness as a general analytical tool…

This study examined the feasibility of a high school district operating under the compulsory "Valley View 45-15 Continuous School Year Plan." Salient features of the study include reporting of three different types of secondary year-round school operations and the surveys of the local boards of education, the local community, the local…

In this paper guidelines which provide direction toward the development and structure of a course in social foundations of education are outlined. A systems approach to organization of the course is used as both a content and process guide. The construct of the parts of this education system defines four operational functions: 1) development of…

The material presented in this report deals with the examination of educational policy and planning in Germany carried out as part of the program of the Education Committee of OECD for the Review of National Educational Policies. Part I is a report of the evaluation of German education made by the examiners. The material focuses on the course of…