This paper investigates the claim that better curriculum planning will be achieved if educators specify educational objectives before selecting learning activities. After consideration of what is meant by "better planning," the author concludes that this claim for planning by objectives is not valid since an objective can neither be a…

To help develop a conceptual design and determine resources necessary to establish a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) in Texas, a task force investigated factors influencing the balance between individuals in training and demand for trained people. State data forms and federal forms used to collect data in Texas are reviewed. HRIS systems…

The document presents professional adult basic education staff development plans of States in Region Four (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee). The plans are an attempt to systematically record the educational resources that have been built and the relationships and roles that each…

The revised Oregon high school graduation requirements, adopted in 1972, are an attempt to respond to attacks on the schools and to clarify the purposes of schooling. The uniqueness of the Oregon approach lies in the mechanism for bringing about change in the schools--a radically revised set of requirements for high school graduation. The focus of…

This guide demonstrates a new way of utilizing the planning process within a social movement context in view of developing a state master plan for environmental education. In addition the book serves as a guide to realistic planning, including models, definitions, and examples. The guide contains five parts: Part One - The background, Part Two -…

Many of the nation's youth believe that the country's colleges and universities are insensitive and even hostile to their demands for an end to racism, militarism violence and poverty, and to their insistence on relevant curricula. If educational paralysis and alienation of this nation's most talented youth is to be avoided, many of our…

Where research activities operate under "fixed" budgetary and resource conditions, allocations of funds must be carefully planned for effective program implementation. Although relatively little information is available on how small research units could use the principles of programed budgeting, a technique for ascertaining program…

More than 100 state directors and other leaders from 45 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico attended a 3-day inservice leadership development seminar to exchange information and examine coordinated state planning as it relates to programing in vocational-technical education. Seminar activities included group work sessions, a…

This document discusses (1) the method of determining who shall be involved in educational policymaking, (2) the forces that currently control educational policymaking, (3) the forces that are intruding on educational government, and (4) the ways these intruding forces can be utilized to strengthen democracy and to help resolve some of the…

The results of a field test of a computer-assisted counseling system, conducted in a suburban high school are presented. Three questions were asked: (1) does the education and career exploration system function adequately? (2) does it effect students' vocational development? and (3) what reactions does it elicit from students, parents, counselors,…

One of the central questions in the study of bilingualism is the degree to which it is possible for a group to maintain their language even when accepting other cultural values. There are numbers of cases of peoples who have managed to develop a modern industrial society without giving up their national language; this is difficult, but possible. A…

Nine research reviews in this issue in vocational and technical education, organized under these topics: (1) Research on Research, which reviews the October 1968 issue of "Review of Educational Research" devoted to vocational education, and a publication on a research priorities planning model, (2) Seminars and Institutes on Research, which…

This ESEA Title III report describes fault tree analysis and assesses its applicability to education. Fault tree analysis is an operations research tool which is designed to increase the probability of success in any system by analyzing the most likely modes of failure that could occur. A graphic portrayal, which has the form of a tree, is…

A questionnaire was administered in the spring to 830 rural Iowa high school males to determine the perceived influence of 4 selected groups on their educational and occupational plans. Previous research studies have shown that residence (farm-nonfarm) is an important factor in a youth's vocational-educational decision. Statistical comparisons…

Staff development activities are the subject of a resource guide directed at educators of migrant children. One county participating in the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program was selected to serve as a model. Planning for activities should be individually-based, problem-oriented, goal-directed, time-factored, and participant-controlled.…