This book contains proceedings of the annual conference of the British Educational Administration Society (BEAS) held in September 1978 in London. The theme of the conference was approaches to the professional development of educational administrators and the future role of the BEAS in that process. Three speeches are included, covering the…

The activities of the 37th annual meeting of the National Junior College Athletic Association in March 1978 are chronicled. (MM)

This report, the seventh in a series concerning school calendars, examines teacher attendance patterns. Pupil attendance falls off from the September high point to reach a low point in February, whereupon the trend is reversed through June. Outside temperature and student patterns are similar. A sample of New York State public school districts was…

How teachers methodically construct report card comments into organized social features is addressed through an examination of negotiation structures which organize anecdotes. Anecdotal comments are key communication devices which teachers employ for reporting. Four hundred and fifty anecdotal comments teachers wrote about students were collected…

This annual report presents evaluative descriptions of meeting activities and recommendations to achieve goals of providing high quality services and activities to the membership. It also includes information on the membership, the budget, group publications, and other professional activities. (RAA)

This paper provides a model for five-page, self-evaluation reports to be used by projects funded by the New York State Education Department. This five-page model is proposed as an alternative to bulky, time-consuming documents that often suffer from "mismatch, mismanagement, and miscalculation." The report preview explains how to avoid…

A Monte Carlo investigation of Markov chain matrices was conducted to create empirical distributions for two statistics created from the transition matrices. Curve fitting techniques developed by Karl Pearson were used to deduce if theoretical equations could be fit to the two sets of distributions. The set of distributions which describe the…

This compilation of government publications related to the development of the Copyright Law of 1976 includes Copyright Office Studies, legislative reports from both houses of Congress, legislative hearings, and public laws. Preliminary studies, which were begun in 1955 as the first step in the revision of the U.S. Copyright Law, are listed in the…

This report from the Freedom of Information Center outlines the kinds of reports that are available from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), including operating, radiological, environmental, licensee events, technical data, inspections, financial statements of facilities, and other licensee reports; and the kinds of information they contain.…

Presents the edited remarks of the speakers at the 1979 Annual AFL-CIO Education Conference. The sessions and workshops were focused on the question of how to educate on the important issues facing the labor movement. Speakers addressed such topics as the role of educators in organizing training, the organization of training programs, responses to…

This document constitutes the narrative portion of the Annual Progress Report of the Center for Research in Human Learning for the period 15 June 1967 to 15 June 1968. It was submitted to the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota as an…

This is the first volume of the proceedings of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) Geometry Conference, held at Santa Barbara in June, 1967. The purpose of the conference was to consider the status of geometry in colleges at the undergraduate level. The conference, attended by undergraduate mathematics teachers,…

Report is made of activities of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP) for the year 1977. Included in the documentation are: (1) a report of WCOTP activities presented on behalf of the Executive Committee; (2) resolutions of the 26th Assembly of Delegates relating to the theme "Compulsory Education: Social…

Daily summaries, official tally of votes, resolutions, and constitutional amendments adopted at the 62nd annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, ALF-CIO, Washington, D.C., August 21-24, 1978, are presented. (JD)

The author suggests that the special education teacher plays an important role in the life of a dying child, and considers the teacher's need for support in the mourning/grief process. (CL)