Because of the rapid increase of technological and general knowledge, the maintenance and development of teaching staffs has become a major problem, especially for the small school district. Cooperative programs uniting several school districts, such as the school study councils utilized in Texas, seem to present the most favorable solution.…

This document presents a description and preliminary evaluation of a pilot project involving Gorham State College and the Poland Spring Job Corps Center for Women in a cooperative program designed to enlarge student teacher opportunities for working with disadvantaged students and to explore potentialities of Job Corps trainees in higher…

This report described the development and organization of the Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) in July 1966 which was designed to unite all research efforts and resources to support a continuing vocational education program in Tennessee. Financial support was provided by the Bureau of Research of the United States Office of Education, the…

The creation of the Committee of Presidents in 1962 was a significant step toward systematic cooperation among Ontario universities. This cooperation, which has consistently increased, was the response to growing dependence on public funds, and to increased government interest in how funds were spent. The universities have cooperated in…

The focus of this report is on shared services in the rural setting. The kit contains three documents of useful information for any school planning a shared service activity to improve rural education. 13-A identifies 215 shared services in 50 states along with an indexing of each service by subject area and by state. 13-B is a series of 10…

The San Francisco Consortium, composed of the University of California Medical Center, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State College, Golden Gate College, and City College of San Francisco, is based on geographic proximity rather than on similarity of goals among member institutions. The author of this study has made several…

This document is an abstract of a joint meeting between National Institute of Education (NIE) and National Education Association (NEA) staff. The document is organized around four ideas discussed at the meeting. The first is the political constituency for NIE; that is, the program of NIE must be made relevant and visible to educational…

This report provides an overall framework for planning the interface between institutions of postsecondary education and the city in or near which they are located. The main thrust of the report suggests: (1) The question of the interface between a postsecondary school and a city can only be answered by those who are "serious" about it; (2) Being…

This memorandum of agreement for an academic common market is drawn up under the general framework of operation of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). The agreement is designed to establish an academic common market for sharing specified academic programs through an exchange of students across state borders. The Common Market will assist…

For training and protection in any economic sector, a cooperative society is an appropriate organization. In such a society, members give mutual aid, exchange experiences, and benefit from the direct advice of civil servants. The African countries need a cooperative society. Cooperatives for handicrafts, credit, consumers, housing, and agriculture…

This pamphlet addresses itself to the subject of the role of vocational education for disadvantaged youth. Answers are discussed for the following questions and issues: (1) why exemplary vocational education programs should be developed for disadvantaged youth, (2) the role of the residential school in the education of disadvantaged youth, (3)…

This report contains 24 case studies related to cooperative efforts between business and industry and educational agencies. Studies are arranged according to their current status, including whether they are on-going, not presently operating, or their status is uncertain. A short description is provided for each program, together with the source of…

The University of Tennessee--Clinch-Powell student teaching project was a cooperative effort between the College of Education at the university and the Clinch-Powell Educational Cooperative. The project was designed to accomplish three goals: a) meeting the needs of university students who desired to learn about the unique characteristics of rural…

This document presents a study of the joint use of educational facilities among public and private colleges and universities in California. The study was undertaken because it was felt that the necessity for building higher-cost, specialized campus structures might be reduced at some savings to taxpayers if individual institutions could be…

Project Gifted, an educational program for gifted intermediate grade children, is described as a tri-city, cooperative effort in the demonstration of diverse educational procedures for the gifted. General goals for the project are noted as identification of gifted children, development of differential experiences to improve the learning programs…