The program, designed to give the driver-training pupil a semester of 50 hours of instruction, involves four instructional phases, one of them optional to give flexibility to fit the varying needs of different school systems: Phase 1--the classroom phase, with 30 instructional hours devoted to 30 specific events, staggered at each school…

Proposed in the Michigan legislature is the establishment of a new institution to be known as Wolverine State College: an institution without a campus or principal location. The proposed legislation articulates three distinct state policy objectives: (1) Under the umbrella of a single institution, the development of a meaningful alternative for…

A 16-month demonstration project is implementing the Time Shared, Interactive, Computer Controlled Information Television (TICCIT) system in two community colleges. Participating are the MITRE Corporation, Brigham Young University (BYU), Educational Testing Service (ETS), Phoenix College of the Maricopa, Arizona County Community College District,…

The Lister Hill Experimental Computer Assisted Instruction Network has existed since July 1972. It has connected three university data bases to as many as 80 user institutions. The paper presents a history of the network, compares computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with information storage and retrieval, and summarizes the uses made of the CAI…

This Information Bulletin describes an effective system for utilization and communication of research results. Research financed by the National Board of Education and discussed in this bulletin is primarily for practical application. The principle of practical utilization directs research toward guiding principles, methods, techniques, and hints…

The Rural Junior College Development Consortium was formed, with the assistance of Title III, to help the six participating rural junior colleges improve the delivery of educational services to low-income students and the rural community. The six institutions are Cullman College, Northeast Alabama State Junior College, Snead State Junior College,…

Oakland Schools, an Intermediate School District for Administration, operates a Remotely Accessible Management System (RAMS). RAMS is composed of over 100 computer programs, each of which performs procedures on the files of the 28 local school districts comprising the constituency of Oakland Schools. This regional service agency covers 900 square…

In 1969 the Saginaw, Michigan City School System affiliated with the Remotely Accessible Management System (RAMS) developed by the Oakland Schools, a regional service agency. The affiliation enabled Saginaw to move into computerized data processing with minimal costs for programing personnel, systems specialists, hardware, software, and operating…

Since June of 1962, the University of Utah, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development and the Ethiopian Government, has helped to build a faculty of education at the Haile Sellassie I University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The assignment has included two projects. The first was for preparation of junior-secondary and…

This document presents the minutes of preparatory meetings to and the proceedings of a conference of rectors and vice-chancellors of the European universities held from September 2 to September 8, 1964. Some of the major addresses at the conference dealt with the topics of: (1) the university in the modern world; (2) the university and…

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Study Unlimited, an off-campus instructional program cooperatively offered at area public libraries by Black Hawk College and the River Bend Library System (Illinois), in serving "new" student populations (adults over 25, males employed full-time, housewives, ethnic minorities, and adults…

The director of the National Institute of Education (NIE) reports the institute's progress with authorizing and appropriation committees in both the House and Senate of the United States. New and continuing program efforts and budget are listed for FY 76. Guidelines for developing FY 77 program plans are summarized. A progress report contains…

Presented are the AACP Task Force recommendations on general education requirements for pharmacy students that must be met for an institution to receive favorable accreditation. The recommendations concern science courses as liberal education content, keys for determining whether a course falls within the liberal education component, course level,…

A discussion of research and development (R&D) in vocational education in relation to the roles of state departments, universities, and the national center. Recommendations include creating state education R&D institutes and implementation councils and getting involved in efforts by the national center to prevent it from slipping into isolation.…

A plan for improving the performance and quality of a school staff begins with the individual teacher's self-assessment and broadens to include small groups, schools, teacher centers, districts, consortia, and ultimately, regional support systems. (JD)