Four factors which affect the status of African Studies in the southeastern United States are: (1) the largeness of the South as a geographical area, (2) lack of concentrations of African-oriented scholars in the region, (3) the relatively new addition of African Studies to southern university curriculums, and (4) the frequent involvement in…

This study empirically explores patterns of authority delegation by Nebraska state agencies to substate regional organizations and evaluates the effectiveness of those patterns in realizing the goals of decentralization. Information about the field operations and role perceptions of various state agencies was gathered through use of a…

The United States Office of Education has funded under ESEA V, Section 505, a network of regional projects called the Interstate Projects for State Planning and Program Consolidation since January 1968. The participants in the projects include all 50 state education agencies and the departments of education in U.S. possessions and territories. The…

Although there were scattered, nationwide pioneering efforts in educational television (ETV) as early as the 1920's and 1930's, the first educational television broadcast in New York State did not take place until 1941 when Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) undertook a TV art series in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CBS…

An evaluation of this association of 13 school districts, founded in 1965 to provide a cooperative effort in sharing some federal programs sponsored under the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act, was conducted to determine whether the association was achieving its primary objective of providing a more comprehensive education for the…

An interview schedule was administered to 180 respondents (116 instructional consultants, seven directors of instructional consultants, 51 vocational consultants, and six directors of vocational consultants) to determine the regional point of view of the consultant role in the six-State area of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South…

This brochure describes the history, administrative organization, and activities of a UNESCO-sponsored regional institute for school building research. A list of publications is included. (FPO)

The United States Office of Education has funded, under ESEA Title V, a network of regional projects called Interstate Projects for State Planning and Program Consolidation. The participants in the projects include all of the State education agencies. The purposes of the network of Interstate Projects are to (1) identify, analyze, and work…

The Northwest Louisiana Supplementary Educational Center, also referred to as the Advantage Center, is described and information is provided to staffs of schools and systems interested in the regional center concept. The publication lists the operational objectives of the Center as follows: 1) to develop computer-based, regional total information…

The need for expanded less-than-baccalaureate opportunities for the citizens of Maine has been identified. This paper presents two methods to respond to this need. The first model presented, SMRCC (Southern Maine Regional Community Learning Centers), is designed to provide geographic access for the students of two southern Maine counties, York and…

This document contains the prepared remarks given at the Legislative Work Conference (LWC) of the Southern Regional Education Board. The LWC concentrated on the changing face of higher education. The once traditional term higher education is now increasingly replaced with references to postsecondary education, with options for students multiplying…

Through the program, state departments of education, colleges and universities, and local adult education programs worked to solve a regional problem by sharing the strengths of each participating group. The project assisted eight HEW Region IV states to institute badly needed training programs for teachers of adults. Teachers participated in…

This second progress and information report of the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) is designed to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the processes and procedures used to develop catalogs of performance objectives and the nature of the cooperative efforts of the members in promoting performance-based…

Discusses political, economic, and cultural interactions between the United States and Western Europe since World War II and identifies strengths and weaknesses of the Atlantic Alliance. (DB)

This article provides a broad view of the problems of metropolitan area schools and society, with emphasis on problems associated with the growth of racial and socioeconomic segregation in some parts of the metropolitan area. (Author)