The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) was established as a result of a 1969 New York state law, which provided for the coordination of opportunity programs at CUNY, SUNY, and the independent colleges and universities under the aegis of the Board of Regents. The 1974-75 annual report summarizes the data reported by the individual…

The master plan for development of library services in Maryland provides direction and guidelines for state and local programs and activities to meet library and information needs of Maryland's citizens. This report describes progress made in 1975 toward meeting master plan recommendations. It reviews the programs and activities of the State…

Examining the educational system of Yugoslavia, this publication stresses the socialist precepts upon which national educational policy is based. The report is presented in two sections. Section I describes general educational principlas, the system of management and finance, educational structure and organization, curricula and syllabi, and…

The report on education in Sri Lanka is presented in two parts. Part I describes the structure of the educational system. Information is included on principles of educational development as set forth in the Constitution of 1972, educational administration, teacher education, management and funding of different levels of education, selection…

This volume on desegregation is divided into seven sections that outline and annotate bodies of information available from various sources. These sections include: (1) selected sources of information on various school desegregation issues; (2) "how to" sources on school desegregation; (3) sources of information on cities that have been…

This second annual year-end report summarizes the efforts of administrators, teachers, and students in the Los Angeles Unified School District on behalf of children whose primary language is not English. It documents the district's response to the January 1974 Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols. The response is embodied in programs for…

This document is the annual impact report of the Curriculum Coordination Centers (CCCs) for 1980. The Curriculum Coordination Centers are a group of six centers that comprise the National Network for Curriculum Coordination in Vocational and Technical Education. The CCC network has the following four broad objectives: (1) to increase the…

During the summer of 1978 the College Board sponsored a series of six seminars throughout the United States to provide a forum for discussion of the Supreme Court's decision on the case of Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. The first section of this report summarizes the discussions in the seminars, outlining the salient…

Governing board chairmen of 176 selected postsecondary institutions were surveyed to determine their levels of knowledge, involvement, and satisfaction concerning policies for extra-income-earning activities of the faculty. Such activities provide benefits to the faculty, the university, and to society, but potential conflicts of interest and…

A conference was held by the University of New South Wales, Australia, to enable staff and students to examine the purposes of student assessment, implications of various forms of assessment, and ways in which assessment might be most effectively conducted. Eric Daniels spoke on the jury system of assessment in architecture, Raja Bandaranayake…

Annual reports of two federal education programs for FY 1970 comprise this document: Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Title III of the National Defense Education Act. Both reports describe how the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific…

Nearly 8,700 migrant students (73% at the elementary level) participated in Idaho's 1978 migrant education program which emphasized oral language, reading, and math skills for all students, and career preparation (driver training, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, GED skills) for teenagers. Of the 33 participating school districts, 30…

This report inventories the U.S. federal government's current expenditures of resources for international health and considers ways of better resource utilization and coordination. Presented in eight chapters, the report considers three major issues: (1) how governmental and multilateral development strategies could be reoriented to affect health,…

This conference report presents an executive summary of a 1976-77 study on external degree programs conducted by the Bureau of Social Science Research in cooperation with the American Council on Education, the keynote address, summaries of panel commentaries on research implications and policy implications, and a conference summary. The…

Six papers are presented from an American Educational Research Association symposium. The symposium explored the kind of research needed for increasing understanding of college and university faculty and examined the manner in which different scholarly techniques can contribute. The symposium objective was to open for discussion four modes for…