Advice on developing a consulting practice is offered to academicians who are interested in initiating part-time consulting work while maintaining a primary focus on teaching. Steps in this process are assessing one's marketability, contacting the agency, developing a project work plan, and completing the work. Marketable skills include:…

Relationships need to be built between the military training system and vocational education. Vocational education, or specialized skill training as the military terms it, provides the skills and knowledge needed in specific military occupations. It has two parts--initial training and progression training. A process called Instructional Systems…

Urban public education needs to be improved, and the superintendent is the key to improvement. Because the public influences school quality, the superintendent must deal with the public and with political leaders and officials. Hence the superintendent must be a community leader and should meet and work with the city's mayor. Mayors are aware that…

In 1980, a project was conducted in Carteret County to: (1) establish linkages among human service delivery agencies, educational institutions, and employment and training programs; (2) use these linkages to facilitate the identification of disadvantaged and handicapped individuals who could benefit from vocational training; and (3) contact area…

Initiated in October, 1980, by the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), the study addressed two concerns: present levels of service and demands for both services and programs from the GNWT to the non-English-speaking Dene and recommendations to the Executive Committee on steps to be taken now within government to overcome problems…

The geography department at Mansfield State College (Pennsylvania) has maintained and even increased enrollment by expanding into a Department of Geography and Regional Planning and by offering internship programs to its students. Goals of the department are to develop special emphases in environmental planning, resource management, recreational…

Written as a first step to improve early stimulation services to developmentally disabled and retarded preschool aged children in Costa Rica, the manual, in Spanish, seeks to attain the following objectives: raise consciousness and understanding of health service personnel, primary and special educators, rehabilitation personnel, and parents;…

In British Columbia the responsibility for non-degree, continuing professional education of teachers is vested in the Ministry of Education, three universities, the British Columbia Teachers' Federation, and the schools. Demography necessitates coordinated planning. Multi-agency planning committees are established to improve communication, assess…

This long-range plan, which will serve as the basis for program and budget developments for the Library of Michigan for the 3-year period beginning October 1, 1984, was prepared after reviewing long-range plans of 26 other state libraries and has been through 3 working drafts. The second draft was reviewed by the Library Services and Construction…

One of a series of papers resulting from a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) project, this working paper describes how a state agency data system can be used and supplemented to produce the kinds of data that are needed for effective community college planning and evaluation. First, general information is presented on…

This paper reviews State constitutions and State laws providing for race equity in education. Results of a comprehensive survey of constitutions and statutes reveal a substantial State commitment to the goal of education equity. Constitutional provisions in an overwhelming number of States mirror the requirements of the Federal equal protection…

Differences among statewide coordinating boards/agencies and consolidated governing boards/agencies in level of authority for budgeting, program review/approval, and planning for public senior institutions were studied. The potential for effective linkage or integration of these activities was also explored. Forty-five state agencies completed…

State education agencies are in increasing agreement regarding the basic principles that should underlie state educational assessment programs, though some areas of divergent opinion remain. The agencies generally accept the ideas that comparisons between states will be made, that assessment programs should serve multiple purposes, that meaningful…

This manual is designed to assist agencies in the development of a child care manual that will serve as an orientation tool for the new child care worker, and as an on-going reference tool. The manual is organized to orient the child care worker first to the agency objectives, functions, and organization, and then to specific child care…

The academy's zeitgeist--standards of scientic investigation--has recently come to the fore in the national arena as the dominant moral and intellectual framework for educational research. In this article, we explore the re-emergence of standards of scientific investigation as a significant shaping force in education and the scholarly culture,…