This study reports data collected during a state-wide investigation into the current and future junior college needs of the people of Oklahoma. Factors investigated include current and future population, student enrollment, and economic patterns; manpower distribution and needs; existing and required educational services; financing; and existing…

What are the characteristics of successful students in research training programs and what are the characteristics of successful programs of this type? What are the characteristics of successful mature researchers and what research environments facilitate research of high quality and quantity? Since very little research deals directly with these…

The major purpose of this guide is to develop the necessary information for the writing of educational specifications to house medical x-ray technician programs. The guide is also designed to: (1) assist planners in the formation of creative housing solutions for desired educational programs, (2) prevent important considerations from being…

The specifications, planning, and initial development phases of the Random Access Center at the Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, are described with particular attention to the ways that the five functional specifications and the five-part program rationale were implemented in the system design. Specifications, set out…

The annotated bibliography contains publications and report listings of the following sources--(1) School Construction Systems Development (SCSD), (2) University Residential Building Systems (URBS), (3) Florida Schoolhouse Systems Project (SSP), (4) Study of Educational Facilities (SEF), and (5) Recherches en Amenagements Scolaires (RAS) Building…

This document includes three addresses presented at a 1-day conference on collective negotiations in education. In his "Keynote Remarks," Dr. Herbert F. Johnson outlines three broad concerns affecting the collective negotiation process in New York: (1) Limited State, local, and Federal financial resources for education; (2) revolutionary…

The use of computer technology for the storage and rapid retrieval of information about instructional media requires the development of nationally accepted guidelines or standards for catalog information and computer input. The Department of Audiovisual Instruction (DAVI) organized a task force to develop standards for cataloging educational media…

This guide is the result of deliberations at a national conference involving representatives of business, industry, labor, education, government, and the community, and at regional clinics which followed the conference. Chapter headings are: (1) Cooperative Vocational Education and What It Will Do, (2) What Form and Type Is Best for a Specific…

This booklet explains what training grants are offered by the Furniture and Timber Training Board of Great Britain, indicates how to claim them, and outlines the Board's training philosophy. Foldouts present conditions which apply in whole or in part to the Training Grants Scheme, followed by guidelines for completing forms. The main section…

A survey of cultural policy in Israel, prepared for UNESCO, is one of a series of booklets to show how cultural policies are planned and implemented in various countries. The series provides a guide to these countries which have yet to establish cultural policies to help them profit from past experiences. The historical background of Israel's…

These guidelines, which summarize the content of desegregation program evaluation studies, are organized into five chapters. The first is an "Introduction and Overview." Chapter 2 specifies desegregation program variables which are important in planning and designing evaluation studies. The structural and student variables that are required in the…

This booklet provides guidelines for determining sexist practices in various aspects of school life: curriculum, instructional materials, the library, the staff guidance and counseling, admissions, extra-curricular activities, and school environment. Sections on each of these aspects contain a discussion of the impact of sexists practices. Then,…

The fourth of five documents developed as an outgrowth of funded programs for career education in Kentucky, the handbook for junior high school teachers involved in career education includes an overview, strategy for curriculum development, strategy for teaching, and sample units and plans. It is not a curriculum guide or comprehensive outline but…

The last of five documents developed as an outgrowth of funded programs for career education in Kentucky, the handbook for high school teachers involved in career education includes an overview, startegy for curriculum development, strategies for teaching, and sample units and plans. It is not a curriculum guide or comprehensive outline but rather…

This conference report of a joint meeting of directors and staff working in Project Home Start and the Child and Family Resource Program contains discussions of a wide range of issues: health services, home safety, home visits, food programs, and the use of television. Other issues discussed are program guidelines, evaluation plans, means to…