Communications satellite technology has for the first time given Alaska the capacity to deliver television broadcasts to the state's isolated regions. The ATS-6 Health/Education Telecommunications Experiment has given the state an opportunity to: (1) acquire experience with new forms of technology; (2) involve the state's culturally diverse…

This paper is one of four related publications that are intended to identify and develop a set of indicators for monitoring educational activities in Florida from the state level. The central focus of this paper is on the specification of cost-finding concepts plus identification of a few cost indicators. Various sections of the paper discuss the…

Subscribing to the national CEU (Continuing Education Unit) system, the document translates the national guidelines into concrete institutional plans for the State of Illinois. It is intended for use by any organization in Illinois which offers non-credit continuing educational experiences and which is interested in awarding continuing education…

The career guidance advisory committee reviewed both national and State efforts in the area of career guidance and attempted to define and develop the concept. The committee examined concepts that were relevant to the needs of Massachusetts and developed a rough framework on which to build a comprehensive State plan. The report addressed itself to…

This booklet summarizes the legal requirements and administrative policies governing public education in Illinois. It is intended to provide a clear framework of educational responsibilities and objectives to guide local school board members and administrators in meeting their constitutional mandate to provide an efficient system of high-quality…

Private colleges and universities are now under pressure from many directions. The potential benefits of statewide planning agencies in building cooperation between the public and private sectors of higher education are examined. This compendium of suggestions for finding alternatives to often wasteful competitive relationships is drawn from a…

This annual report of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee covers the period for July 1, 1974 to June 30, 1975. As the third such report, it chronicles the highlights of the State Board of Regents and institutional activities especially in the areas of instruction, public service, continuing education, student life,…

This report is intended to provide state-level policy makers with descriptive information on 17 state administrative structures for the coordination of planning and delivery of services to children. An introduction briefly reviews the general history, activities, challenges, successes, and goals of the state offices of child development. The…

Florida View is an information system developed to provide career and training information for students, counselors, occupational specialists, and teachers. The information is contained on two card decks designed to be read on microfilm readers or reader-printers. Presented in the document are the goals and objectives, advantages, cost and…

A training and dissemination conference for State education officials was conducted by the Massachusetts State Department of Education. Every State and territorial department of education was invited to send the person or persons in their State most directly responsible for elementary curriculum. Fifty-two persons, representing 37 states, three…

The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities, composed of 117 Pennsylvania colleges and universities--public and private, community colleges and complex universities, state-related universities and state-owned colleges, calls for public support for Pennsylvania private colleges. It recognizes that tuitions in the public sector should…

The study focuses on the purpose and role of industrial arts in Colorado with particular attention to its relationship with vocational education. The study was based on: (1) a review of current literature (presented in Volume 2, which is not available for copyright reasons); (2) data collected from industrial arts, trade and industrial education,…

While the dental education expansion in Illinois has been notable, some problems remain to be addressed in the last half decade of the 1970's. There is a geographic maldistribution of dentists, with more dentists per capita in the urban areas, particularly Chicago, than in the downstate rural areas. While some progress has been made, considerable…

Given the present economic situation, it is inevitable that more state legislatures and school boards will adopt a "cost accounting" attitude toward education. However, schools aren't factories, and using an industrial model for accountability doesn't work. To have a viable system of accountability, everyone who is concerned with education must be…

This report discusses the potential development of community colleges in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia. Chapters center on the demographic characteristics and the legacy of piecemeal educational development in Vancouver; the comprehensive nature and roles of colleges, in general; the locations and multiple objectives of present and future…