Planning for the future of vocational education should center around both external and internal perspectives. Planning for change should be based on the implications of the broadest societal issues as they evolve over the coming years. Accordingly, vocational programs need to be carefully reviewed to make certain students are being prepared to…

This monograph describes the rationale for the Conference-Research Sequence in Child Care Education Project and reports the outcomes of the project's initial conference. The three-year project is designed to encourage communication among child care educators on a national level by soliciting information and disseminating outcomes of the project.…

A printing and/or duplicating center can be a valuable addition to any school and the learning resources center is a likely host for it, as many functions of the media production staff are similar to those needed to support a duplicating center, and grouping similar functions is good management practice. However, several things should be…

A management plan developed for the district-wide coordination of vocational education program planning in the State Center Community College District, California, is presented. Following a discussion of the planning process (in memo form) and a section on how to read flow-block diagrams, the mission profile and narrative description of this model…

Student participation in educational planning is important for the child, his parents, and teachers. Parents are often reluctant to inform their children when they are in academic trouble, either because they fear their child will lose self esteem or won't understand the information, or because partners often want to avoid the issue. These reasons…

Educational productivity offers a perspective but not a solution for many of the problems in American education. Because education produces several different products, several kinds of educational policy outcomes can be defined as productivity increases. These include improving classroom methods, curriculum structure, curriculum content,…

Recognition of the lack of time spent in planning during the typical administrator's day led the superintendent of schools in McMinnville, Oregon, to develop the Management Plan for Improvement (MPI). The process involved establishing the functions of top and middle management, and requiring middle managers to design objective-oriented plans for…

Established by NIE in June 1975, the State Dissemination Grants Program provides resources to state education agencies to develop comprehensive and generalized dissemination capacity, which is defined as the leadership and service capability to provide information and technical assistance in the solution of problems identified by the dissemination…

POPULATION TRENDS AND BUILDING NEEDS, ORGANIZATION, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, SUMMER SCHOOL, COCURRICULAR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE HANDICAPPED AND MALADJUSTED, NONCLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RELATIONS, AND THE REALITIES OF THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE ARE DISCUSSED AND EVALUATED WITH RESPECT TO CURRENT MAJOR…

THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DEVELOP A CORRELATED MODULAR SYSTEM OF SCHOOL DESIGN WHICH WOULD PERMIT A VARIETY OF COMPETITIVE MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS TO BE MASS PRODUCED FOR SCHOOLS AND USED INTERCHANGEABLY AND FLEXIBLY. THE DEVELOPED SYSTEM PROPOSES FUNDAMENTAL AND SIGNIFICANT INNOVATIONS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN ADVANCED BY EARLIER PROGRAMS. THIS…

THE IMPLICATIONS OF GENERAL TRENDS OF SOCIETY ON THE NATURE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS OFFERED IN THE STATE OF INDIANA ARE EFFECTIVE IN MEETING NEEDS DEVELOPED FROM THESE TRENDS WERE STUDIED. A LISTING OF MAJOR CONDITIONS AND TRENDS WAS PREPARED. THESE WERE RANKED IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL…

FORMAL EDUCATION IN THE FORMER FRENCH COLONY, THE CONGO, WAS INVESTIGATED WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS UPON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY. TWO VERY SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WERE STUDIED--(1) THE TRANSFER OF FORMAL, FRENCH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO AN AFRICAN SETTING FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING NORMATIVE FUNCTIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SOCIETY…

RECENT LEGISLATION IN PUERTO RICO HAS VALIDATED THE 2-YEAR REGIONAL COLLEGE CONCEPT, AND THE CHARACTER OF THE PROGRAM COMBINING LIBERAL ARTS TRANSFER CURRICULUMS AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION HAS BEEN SET. TO IMPLEMENT THE PLANNING PHASES, THIS STUDY PREDICTS STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY REGION. TWO INDEXES ARE USED TO ESTIMATE STUDENT DEMAND--COLLEGE…