This guide sets forth minimum approval criteria for secretarial training in office occupations education programs in Oregon. The information in the guide is intended for use by district-level curriculum planners, teachers, regional coordinators, or state education department staff involved with new program development or revisions of existing…

This document is a history of Wisconsin's equalization aid formula, embodying all the formula studies conducted since 1947, along with all the actions taken by Wisconsin legislatures and governors since 1927. The introduction provides the constitutional and statutory rationale for state education aid, and lists the committees that have studied the…

A study examined the effects of increased academic requirements for graduation on secondary vocational enrollments in Colorado. After identifying 111 of the school districts in Colorado that have recently increased their graduation requirements (representing 61 percent of the 180 school districts in the State), researchers randomly selected five…

This 1983-84 annual report on vocational education in Virginia is organized under four major categories: (1) recommendations for improving the state's vocational education programs, services, and activities; (2) the extent to which previous recommendations have received consideration; (3) review of the vocational education annual program plan…

A study was conducted to determine the feasibility of implementing a reporting system, the National Vocational Education Reporting and Accounting System (VEDS), for secondary vocational education in Wisconsin. As proposed by the National Center for Educational Statistics, the VEDS system is a comprehensive information collection package to provide…

The eleventh annual Statistical Abstract covers the breadth of higher education activities in North Carolina in their quantitative aspect for institutional planning, state agencies, and other concerned organizations and individuals. The data include, in tabular and graphic form without analysis: current enrollment, enrollment trends, undergraduate…

The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) was established as a result of a 1969 New York state law, which provided for the coordination of opportunity programs at CUNY, SUNY, and the independent colleges and universities under the aegis of the Board of Regents. The 1974-75 annual report summarizes the data reported by the individual…

The master plan for development of library services in Maryland provides direction and guidelines for state and local programs and activities to meet library and information needs of Maryland's citizens. This report describes progress made in 1975 toward meeting master plan recommendations. It reviews the programs and activities of the State…

The goal of a project was to survey the vocational divisions of state departments of education across the nation in order to provide the vocational division of Virginia with information upon which to base decisions concerning the development of its vocational exploratory program. A search of the literature was done and an ERIC search completed.…

The South Carolina Plan for further desegregating its public colleges and universities, as approved by the U.S. Department of Education, is presented. In addition, South Carolina's response to the Office of Civil Rights on the South Carolina Plan is included. The following areas are addressed: the state's position as to the equity and equal…

A 3-day conference was held to generate the goals for Adult Basic Education (ABE) in Texas for the remainder of the decade, to examine barriers to and bridges for accomplishing these goals, and to propose strategies for implementing these goals. During the conference, 19 participants (including directors, supervisors, teachers, university faculty…

Proceedings of a 1981 joint conference sponsored by the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) and the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research are presented. The conference theme was the practice of institutional research. Contents include preconference workshop reports, speeches, abstracts of papers, and reports of…

Based on a survey of state directors of community and junior college education in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, this five-part report presents an analytical and descriptive review of 1981 state legislation affecting community colleges. Part I presents study methodology and describes the two survey instruments, one soliciting information on…

Projections of the number of 18-year-olds in each Pennsylvania county through 1994 are presented. The projections are further disaggregated by the student attributes of sex and race. The projections are based on historical migration rates, natality rates, and mortality rates. The projection procedure assumes that the survival and migration rates…

Experiences that have been gained in Illinois in efforts to achieve interinstitutional coordination and cooperation among colleges and universities are described. Attention is directed to the role of the Illinois Master Plan Phase III to establish an integrated incentives in cooperative programs, experiences in the operation of an incentive grant…