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Download full textKirst, Michael W. – 1986
Commissioned papers on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have recommended new roles for NAEP, but its system of governance, as conceived in the 1960s, was not designed for all these functions. The NAEP Policy Committee, revised in 1978, never envisioned the current interest in a linkage system relating local and state…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Williams, Robert O. – 1986
To generate a theoretical model for future interpretation, this study analyzed the 1985 Indiana Legislature concerning educational policymaking in public school funding. Previous research indicates that the classical rational actor model of policymaking inadequately addresses multidimensional pressures at work in state legislatures. A model is…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Center for Early Adolescence. – 1985
This booklet records a series of conference presentations and group discussions about a growing problem in the United States: the increasing number of young adolescents in the 10- to 15-year age range who do not have adult supervision after school. Participants identified current program initiatives, policy barriers to increasing and improving…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Centers, After School Programs, Child Abuse
Gold, Gerard G. – 1985
This guide is intended to assist employers, educators, and union officials in understanding the rationale behind developing and implementing tuition assistance plans. Examined in the introductory section are the importance of tuition assistance programs in light of contemporary economic and labor market conditions. The first chapter outlines the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
Murphy, Michael J.; And Others – 1984
This report analyzes the content and development of the 45 school district career ladder plans submitted in 1984 to the Utah State Office of Education. Descriptive commentary and data tables are used to examine (1) the structure and composition of planning committees; (2) teacher evaluation provisions, including changes in evaluation methods, the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Budgets, Career Ladders, Competitive Selection
Hirshon, Arnold – 1986
Based on telephone interviews with 12 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries, this report presents the underlying reasons for the libraries' decisions relating to the design and implementation of automated library systems. The survey results are summarized, a list of respondents is provided, and profiles of present and planned…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Advisory Committees, Decision Making, Equipment Evaluation
Deloitte Haskins & Sells Associates, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1986
The report provides an overview of the findings, analysis, and conclusions of the external evaluation of the effectiveness of Alberta Education Library Services conducted between September 1985 and March 1986 under the guidance of the Library Services Evaluation Steering Committee (Phase 2 of the evaluation and planning process initiated in 1985…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Cooperation, Library Planning, Library Services
Borus, Michael E.; And Others – 1985
Two data waves from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience compared Black, Hispanic, and White servicemen with their civilian counterparts to determine what types of persons are more likely to enlist in the military. Comparisons of minority servicemen with their civilian peers who are employed full time…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Employment Patterns
Barry, Janet – 1986
Presented are numerous ideas for workshop and in-service activities designed to involve parents as team members in the planning and implementation of the Chapter 1, Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) programs of Missouri schools. Also provided are suggestions for parents to use to enhance their children's cognitive skills in…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Glossaries, Guidelines, Home Study
Schill, William J.; And Others – 1988
The first of five studies in this monograph, "Transition Policies for Youth with Disabilities: Now a Question of Implementation" (Joseph Stowitschek), presents results of a study to determine priority areas for policy analysis among the issues identified in the literature on the school-to-work transition of individuals with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Gallagher, A. P. – 1982
Changes in the coordinating activities of the Australian Universities Commission (AUC) between 1959 and 1970 are discussed, along with events leading to the creation of the Australian Research Grants Committee and the Academic Salaries Tribunal. In addition to reviewing relevant literature and official documents, interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Educational Finance
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1983
At a UNESCO meeting of representatives of international nongovernmental workers and cooperative organizations, the delegates laid particular emphasis on the correlation between political, economic, and social problems on the one hand, and educational, cultural, and training activities on the other. The participants especially stressed the need for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Cooperative Planning, Cooperatives
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Ed. – 1979
Interviews with 180 federal agencies that conduct social research and development (R&D) were conducted and documents were examined to determine: (1) what types of social R&D are supported, and what levels of support are provided; (2) who defines the problems to be researched, who decides the level of support to be provided, and how investigators…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Siegler, Theodore R. – 1979
The guide describes an assessment procedure that can be used by sparsely populated communities located near a potential development to help predict where the incoming population will choose to live and shop. First, a numerical model, the "gravity model," is presented which utilizes community size and the distance from the community to…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Services, Community Size, Coping
Crawley, Margaret; And Others – 1989
In 1988, the Michigan Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) Association was established to help develop a statewide child care policy and to provide support to a network of 13 local and regional 4C agencies. One of the association's first major tasks was to describe the state of child care and related services in Michigan and to make…
Descriptors: Costs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Employer Supported Day Care
