More than two years ago, the Coordinating Board directed its University Formula Advisory Committee to renew efforts to conduct a cost study to validate the relative weights contained in the matrix. This report provides a summary of the results of the study. The methodology was developed and presented to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating…

In no other country in the world do so many boys and girls receive regular high-school education of a general cultural type as in the United States, and the number of such boys and girls in this country is rapidly increasing, having more than doubled since 1905, and increased more than 60 per cent since 1910. American democratic ideals demand not…

This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1901 through December 1901. Among the topics covered in this volume are: current events, editorial notes and comments, educational experiments, quarterly meeting of the Protestant Committee, the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers,…

This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1902 through December 1902. Among the topics covered in this volume are: current events, directory of superior schools, educational experiments, minutes of the Protestant Committee, practical hints and examination papers, and the convention…

Ways to involve knowledgeable people outside the vocational family in curriculum development and keep it up-to-date are described. (MS)

The pilot project in career education developed at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham for grades K-6 is described. It is centered around the concept of the USOE's School-Based Model. (MS)

Poland's entire educational structure is being revamped as part of far-reaching plans to "build a second Poland in 15 years". Article discussed the plans of the Committee of Experts on the State of Education in Poland. (Editor/RK)

How one district invited citizens to take an active part in expressing their opinions on how well the schools are doing their jobs. (Author)

Describes the purpose and structure of lay and staff committees and how they work. (Editor/RK)

Describes a new concept of hall government aimed at reducing student apathy, whereby all hall activity monies are handled by a central budgeting agency and appropriated according to student interest. Any size group can request funds, provided its project improves the social, cultural, athletic, or scholastic development of those within the hall.…

The LEA assessed the Russell Report and made comments about those people who can benefit from its provisions as well as where the responsibility for implementing the reports recommendations rests. (RK)

Author offers comments on those points of the Russell Report that professionals find encouraging, and in line with their own thinking. (Author/RK)

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

Purpose of this article is to identify the organization, job functions and activities of a practicing department of research and evaluation in a public school system. (Author)