The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) is required by statute to prepare plans under which the state-supported institutions of higher education shall constitute a coordinating system. To do so, SCHEV must first assess the current state of the system and make predictions about its future. This needs assessment evaluates, for the…

Research has increased our knowledge about the relationship between demographic conditions, family life, and child outcomes. Such increased knowledge has filtered into public consciousness. American parents recognize they can benefit from help in meeting their parenting duties, and social service providers are responding to parents' needs.…

Successfully completing school district capital construction requires the proper execution of the construction project itself involving the cooperation and understanding by all parties involved. This document presents guidelines that clarify the interrelationships and expected actions on the part of school representatives, the architect or…

This digest presents seven strategies that an assessment director may use to improve test administration practices. These strategies highlight clear communication, the responsibility of the Building Test Coordinator, and rewarding and reinforcing quality. The strategies are: (1) focusing on communication; (2) designating a building test…

Teachers are confronted with the practical problem of deciding how large correlations should be between individual differences in motor skills in order to be taken seriously and influence and/or be the stimulus for modifying or drastically changing their current teaching practice. (Author)

Discusses several misconceptions that make any degree of coordination between early childhood and primary education difficult, and suggest ways to make the transition better for all concerned. (GB)

View of the procedures, potentialities, and problems of the Five College Consortium, including Mount Holyoke, Smith, Amherst and Hampshire Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts. (PG)

No issue in higher education is more fundamental or troublesome than the trend to statewide coordination. (Editor)

The author comments on the preceding article on statewide coordination in higher education. (PG)

Article reports on the fifth annual convention of the national Junior College Journalism Association that took place at the fifty-fifth annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism at Southern Illinois University in August 1972. (GB)

The author presents some improvements for educational planning. (PG)

A panel discusses the need for, and the problems of, societal involvement in planning programing for cable television. The panel members stressed the need for community self-help programs. (Other conference materials are LI 503071-503075 and 503077 through 503084.) (SM)

A statewide occupational advisory council can build connecting links'' between schools in communities, areas, and in the state. (Editor)

To achieve greater coordination of human services delivery at the community level, the community school can act as a base for needs assessment and planning as well as a base for management and operations. (Author)