Papers presented at the Conference include: "Biopsy of an Educational Growth" (J.R. Harsh), "Performance Contracting--The Dallas Experiment" (D.R. Waldrip), "Teaching Performance Tests at Three Levels of Accountability" (W.J. Popham), "Problems of Implementing the Writing of Behavioral Objectives" (R.M. Carson), "Program Planning Impact…

This questionnaire assesses drug knowledge, drug use practices, and attitudes toward drugs in junior high school, senior high school, and college students. The 105 items (multiple choice, yes/no, or completion) are concerned with personal and demographic data, "book" knowledge of drugs, "street" knowledge of drugs (drug argot and the like),…

This questionnaire assesses drug knowledge, drug use practices, and attitudes in junior high school, senior high school, and college students. The 115 items (multiple choice, yes/no, agree/disagree, or completion) deal with personal and demographic data, general attitudes, attitudes toward institutions (police, American business, Army, etc.),…

This document contains the legislation creating the National Committee for Analysis and Evaluation of the Educational System and the final report of that committee's first meeting. The report deals with each level from elementary to higher education. For each level it describes and considers curriculum, school buildings, human resources, current…

Contents of these hearings include: (1) U.S. Supreme Court School Desegregation Cases; (2) School Desegregation Cases with Metropolitan Implications; (3) Other School Desegregation Cases; (4) State Desegregation Law Cases; (5) School Finance Cases; and, (6) Equal Opportunity in Housing Cases. (SB)

A 2-WEEK, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR WAS HELD MAY 31-JUNE 10, 1966, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOR SELECTED FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL EDUCATORS WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. THE AGENDA AND PROCEDURES OF THIS SEMINAR WERE ESENTIALLY THE SAME AS THOSE USED AT THE VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP…

A 2-WEEK, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR WAS HELD JULY 11-22, 1966, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOR SELECTED FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL EDUCATORS WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. THE AGENDA AND PROCEDURES OF THIS SEMINAR WERE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS THOSE USED AT OTHER VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP…

A 2-WEEK, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR WAS HELD JULY 25-AUGUST 5, 1966, AT TAHOE CITY, CALIFORNIA, FOR SELECTED FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL EDUCATORS WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. THE AGENDA AND PROCEDURES OF THIS SEMINAR WERE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS THOSE USED AT THE VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP…

Today Spanish speaking migrant families from the Rio Grande Valley are moving to such eastern states as Florida and New York, as well as to the western agricultural states. Because these children are migratory, they have special social and physical needs. Therefore, programs developed for them cannot focus solely on academic needs and classroom…

The course guide contained in this document was developed to provide industrial arts instructors with some understanding of emotional disturbances and remedial objectives which can be stressed with mainstreamed emotionally disturbed children through industrial arts activities. Major discussion centers on (1) laws, legislation, and regulations…

Presenting both narrative and tabular data, this document emphasizes recent (1973-75) improvements in Poland's educational programs, policies, and legislation. Specifically, this paper addresses: (1) educational development during the 30 years of the Polish People's Republic (an historical comparison emphasizing post-war educational opportunities…

This report contains the Civil Rights Commission's evaluation of school desegregation in a variety of school districts throughout the United States and is based on data obtained from commission hearings, State Advisory Committee to the Commission meetings, mail surveys to 1,291 school districts, and 900 indepth interviews in 29 school districts.…

An introduction to the "hows" of research and development (R&D) funding decisions made by the U. S. Federal government, this book contains four chapters written by separate authors. The first chapter examines the Federal role, purpose, and practices in funding R&D concluding that Federal funding of R&D is designed primarily…

The relationship between public and nonpublic or private schools at the elementary and secondary levels is analyzed and ten predictions advanced. The public sector will increase in scope and size and operate as the established educational system. The private sector will decrease in size, be more distinctive and less influenced by prevailing public…

As faculty and other public sector unions become more sophisticated in collective bargaining, they tend to lay a greater variety of demands on the table. This, in turn, forces the employer to ask, Do I really have to bargain about these subjects? As more employers refuse to bargain, more unions charge them with failing to bargain in good faith,…