The program to provide basic health information and skills for older persons was sponsored by the city of Palo Alto with the cooperation of 14 health agencies. Weekly morning classes featured 12 topics ranging from exercise to coping with cancer and were presented by health professionals in as nontechnical a manner as possible. The classes were…

This paper presents a brief examination of the factors involved in planning for and providing services to people, especially children, in light of diminished public funding. It is suggested that new services be related to existing services and that a consolidated system of service delivery be developed. Emphasis is placed on reevaluating the…

The aim of this report is to contribute to the literature on the identification, description, and interpretation of available alternatives for the accomplishment of effective statewide improvements in education. The report covers the organizational innovation of an Office of Planning, and the endeavers, problems, accomplishments, and goals of the…

The greatest obstacle facing the park, recreation, and conservation movement today and in the future is adequate financing. Competition for both tax dollars and contribution dollars is so intense that park and recreation agencies must develop more effective finance programs and requirements attuned to total community needs. Although the need to…

To assess the educational needs within the region, a survey of deaf-blind individuals was conducted in 1969 involving 279 teachers, 85 United Fund agencies, 12 caseworkers, 20 education service centers, and ten parents. The survey resulted in the identification of 454 deaf blind children and adults in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The…

This publication reports organizational and procedural activities and some outcomes of the 1967-68 phase of the Goshen Project, and experimental international education program at the Goshen School (1-12) in rural Alabama. Chapter 1 presents background rationale on the concept of international education for fostering understanding of foreign…

The philosophy of, and approach to, national socioeconomic development planning are discussed in this second annual report and review of the Canadian Council on Rural Development. The first chapter seeks to define essential elements of the question of development (1) by describing in broad terms some socioeconomic disparities which exist within…

Although New York City has received the bulk of publicity on the decentralization issue because of the bitter conflicts there, the issue exists in other large cities as well. Community members, especially in the ghettos, have become disenchanted with the bureaucratic organization and want to have a voice in policy decisions. Teachers, on the other…

This survey of students enrolled in Michigan's colleges and universities in the fall of 1966 involved 6,928 Negroes, 1,049 Orientals, 250 American Indians, and 164,221 whites. The study revealed more Negro than white female enrollments, a Negro drop-out rate nearly double that of whites, and more Negroes than whites in graduate and graduate…

Eighty-six persons representing vocational education, the Employment Service, the Labor Department, and community colleges attended the conference designed to develop an understanding of the cooperative planning and techniques needed to conduct manpower surveys and to analyze and implement their findings. The conference, coordinated by the Labor…

This booklet contains selected papers from three conferences which had common objectives: to enable federal, state, and local officials to study the complexity of legal, social, economic, and psychological constraints on youth as well as the agencies created by these laws; to review the critical factors in urbanization, their relation to…

Community education is an eclectic philosophy which combines many desirable features of educational movements of the past and present. In the United States, its evolution occurred in those periods of educational history when forces favoring a close relationship between the community and school were dominant. Periods of rapid development of…

This monograph is intended for use by State education agencies (SEA's) and urban school systems as a guide to facilitate SEA/Urban school system efforts to identify urban school system needs; and to develop and to describe the roles of the SEA in assisting these systems to plan and effect improvements in education. The report also develops an…

Descriptions of federal research for 1972 and analysis of research plans are based on the following seven major areas: (1) the developmental process, (2) effects of primary environmental influences, (3) effect of broad social programs, (4) the global approach, (5) research to benefit all children, (6) research on methodology, and (7) study of…

A general introduction to cable television (CATV) in the metropolitan Denver area, with a focus on policy issues for local decision-making, is provided. The overview is based upon a literature review, information presented at conferences, local surveys of CATV, interviews with people involved with CATV, and on-going research conducted by the…