Because of increasing congressional and public concern about child abuse and neglect, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the federal child welfare services program and related activities. GAO recommends that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) develop a system for evaluating the well-being of children and the…

Presented are four papers on Project PACE (Parent Action in Childhood Education), a homebound early childhood program designed to demonstrate the value of early education for developmentally delayed children (birth to 6 years old). In the first paper (by J. Becker) an historical perspective of the project and a brief description of the community…

The Information Support System (ISS) is a management information system developed for the National Drug Education Program (NDEP). The major components of the ISS are: (1) the Project Growth Record which provides a tool for project self-evaluation and for communication between NDEP project officers and project directors; (2) the Quarterly Project…

Based on a research project titled "Institutional Structures for Improving Rural Community Services", this essay addresses the following questions: How can rural communities cope with public services of both limited quantity and quality? How can rural organizations and leadership be developed and maintained to force accountability on government…

The Presidential Task Force on Career Advancement reviewed post-entry training for Federal employees in professional, administrative and technical occupations. Training was found to be good; but in this report needed improvements are deliberately highlighted. The Task Force found that all of its recommendations can be carried out under the…

A case study in career advancement in the community action agency in Suffolk County, New York, presents information on demography, economics, institutional resources, minority groups, political structure, funded programs, and the agency's background, as well as on the problems, objectives, benefits, activities, and strengths and weaknesses of the…

A model for courses in which media are used has been designed by a research group at the Royel Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The model suggests that instruction be planned for in weekly packages. These should include a limited number of instructional aids, should begin with a motivating section, and should offer training in the solving of…

This conference of colleagues from social science curriculum projects was designed to explore the problem of inservice teacher education to facilitate high quality utilization of innovative instructional materials and teaching procedures, or, change in basic educational practice. The conference was planned to involve all the participants in a flow…

The purposes of this study were to determine the attitudes of selected public school district board members toward inter-school-district cooperation and the extent to which selected variables were related to board member attitudes. Data from questionnaires that sought demographic data, local-cosmopolitan orientation, and other information relevant…

The Iowa State Manpower Development Council was established as an experiment in local coordination of federal, state and community manpower programs. Shifts in the occupational and industrial attachment of workers and heavy out-migrations of workers from rural to urban areas underscored the importance of human resource development. The major goal…

Oregon State Government's system of training is examined to determine what the operating agencies and the Civil Service Commission are doing, how educational institutions are used as resources, and how training needs are identified and training is planned. The examination revealed that (1) the lack of clear, definitive statewide policies and…

Presentations at this conference included: (1) "Potential for Employment of the Handicapped," by John W. Kidd, (2) "Implementing Programs to Serve the Handicapped: Some Concerns and Considerations," by Jerry C. Olson, (3) "Labor and Industry Look at the Training and Placement of the Handicapped," by Ralph A. Peckham, (4) "Comprehensive Vocational…

The Ohio comprehensive statewide study of vocational rehabilitation is reported. Attention is given to the study's philosophy and development as well as to Ohio's rehabilitation needs, program potential, variables affecting programs, and criteria for establishing priorities. Recommendations reviewed regard the state's Rehabilitation Services…

Planning for the growth and development of postsecondary education in Michigan is by its very nature a continuous and evalutionary process carried on in cooperation with the postsecondary institutions and other interested groups. The State Board of Education, in addressing this goal of an effective and efficient education planning system, has…

This document asks whether a stress situation created in an organization could be controlled and used to influence the decisionmaking process. The hypothesis tested was that stress induced intentionally by a change agent in a target agency, with consequent generation of strain between the actors of the organizational, would result in the…