A revised edition of this handbook provides illustrated, step-by-step explanations of how to plan and produce audiovisual materials. Included are sections on the fundamental skills--photography, graphics and recording sound--followed by individual sections on photographic print series, slide series, filmstrips, tape recordings, overhead…

The Division of Program Evaluation and Research of the Los Angeles County Superintendent's Office provides program evaluation consultation services to all local educational agencies (grades K-14) in Los Angeles County. The three program evaluation services that are described are: (1) Educational Program Evaluation Planning Assistance, (2)…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. This manual provides administrators with an organized and logical discussion of the planning process, examples of effective practices, practical and useful ideas to improve planning practices, and criteria for effective planning which can be…

A feeling of responsibility for developing an education policy at the level of the European Community prompted this report, which is the first formulation of principles of that policy. Authorities of specific international or European problems of education and of other fields were consulted to discuss policy-related matters. The major data on the…

The study reported in this newsletter looked closely at one community, a city school district in a northeastern state, where the pace of change in public schools was especially rapid and unusual over a seven-year period (1965-72). The purpose was to find out, through interviewing, the thoughts of a selected number of informed individuals and…

The purpose of this report is to draw on the American experience as a guide to policies, research, and experimentation in other countries who belong to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. This review of compensatory education in the United States tries to give some impression of the changing social conditions that were…

Guidelines for basic sampling and weighting procedures for Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) are discussed, illustrating solutions relevant for systems development. Disproportionate, stratified random sampling within and across MISOE subsystems will be carried out, with a hierarchical…

This source book provides some authoritative statements, striking phrases, relevant statistics, and collections of figures on educational topics for people preparing speeches or articles. The topics examined include citizen and school responsibility for the future of education; sources and inadequacies of school financial support; cooperative…

The final report of the Swedish Committee for Internationalizing University Education, analyzing the motives and objectives for internationalization and proposing means for internationalization, is summarized in this document. Internationalization, as investigated by the committee, consists of lending global perspectives to curricula in higher…

This paper by the World Bank, divided into three major sections, analyzes world wide trends in educational development. It states that educational systems in developing countries are all too often ill-conceived and are not adapted to developmental needs. The first section describes worldwide trends in educational development during the period from…

The concept of nonformal education (NFE) is explored in a series of team reports. These reports fulfill the first objective, knowledge building, of a program that will culminate in the application of the knowledge about NFE in developing areas of the world through consultation, technical assistance, workshops, and information dissemination.…

A student flow model in linear programming format, designed to plan the movement of students into secondary and university programs in Tunisia, is described. The purpose of the plan is to determine a sufficient number of graduating students that would flow back into the system as teachers or move into the labor market to meet fixed manpower…

This teaching manual is the second in a series designed for use in bilingual/bicultural programs. This manual outlines some features of culturally democratic educational environments and illustrates ways in which the schools can take positive steps to assure that every child can preserve pride and loyalty toward the culture represented by his…

This report begins with summaries of the ten popular desegregation plan strategies implemented after the 1954 Supreme Court decision. These strategies encompass the following: neighborhood schools, educational parks, voluntary transfer, gerrymandering attendance zones, closing minority schools, pupil assignment, organization by grades (Princeton…

Research reviews in this volume are a consolidation of Research Visibility articles published in the "American Vocational Journal" from September 1969 through May 1970. The reviews are arranged by sub-topic in these major sections: (1) Manpower Research, (2) Exemplary Programs and Residential Schools, (3) Comprehensive Planning, (4)…