Skills centers represent a fairly new and different component of national manpower policy. The 70 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Skills Centers are designed to provide comprehensive manpower services for the disadvantaged, including training, basic education, communication skills, counseling, placement, and follow-up. Based on visits…

This speech draws a distinction between a priori and a posteriori planning, and relates these two types of planning in coping with the various problems faced by local school districts. The author describes the comprehensive planning process, the development of information required by the process, and how this process is supported in the local…

This program guide for physical education program improvement and development is designed to offer options for organization, program content, resources, teaching methodologies, and evaluation, consistent with efforts of individualizing and humanizing education. Topics considered include: legal mandates and philosophy; public relations;…

The overall objective of the project described in this report was to assess the impact of research, exemplary projects, and associated technical services, sponsored by Kentucky's Research Development Unit (RDU), on Kentucky vocational education during the 1970 through 1975 period. Six major sections are included. The introduction presents an…

As a conveyance for local in-service efforts, the Talent Pool endeavors to identify effective practitioners in the field who can share their methods and materials with less experienced practitioners through demonstration and discussion. Developed by the Career Education Service Center (CESC), this document is a compilation of sample forms and…

Iannaccone has suggested that four different types of linkages may be identified between a state's legislature and its organized educational profession: (1) locally based disparate in which legislators and schoolmen primarily represent just their individual school districts; (2) statewide monolithic in which schoolmen speak with one, powerful and…

After a study of ten science education projects receiving NSF financing, the GAO concludes that evaluation of educational materials needs more attention, distribution efforts should be strengthened, and a need exists for more active and systematic project monitoring. Chapter 1 of this document gives a general review of NSF activities and funding…

A successful, flexible, system for coordinating volunteers in the Meigs, Ohio, local school district's elementary schools utilizes a file box containing the names of aides selected to participate in the volunteer program, the times and days they are available, and the services they can provide. A teacher needing a volunteer to perform certain…

The mission of this study was to describe the current and future roles of professional administrators, medical directors, and governing bodies of fee for service and prepay medical group practices of various sizes in such a way as to be potentially useful to health care delivery educators in curriculum evaluation and design. The position was taken…

A study was conducted to identify the minimum mangagement essentials necessary for the effective administration of occupational education (OE) programs in community colleges and to make recommendations to implement the findings. A four-round Delphi process with 179 experts participating was used. Forty-nine items were identified as being essential…

This evaluation instrument is designed for systematic data collection to assess the effectiveness of media programs at school and/or district levels. The instrument may provide internal and external evaluators with information for program improvement, program planning, or accreditation. It is suggested that such an instrument should be used as…

Joint evaluations of allied health educational programs within an institution are recommended to reduce administrative problems in educational institutions with multiple programs. The paper describes one college's favorable experience with a joint site evaluation involving four different allied health programs during the visit of the regional…

Report of research by a political scientist on the success of dual administration of a prison education program by the Texas Department of Corrections and Lee College. Describes responses from faculty, administrators, and students to questions about various aspects of the program. (RT)

Gives an overview of the United States' Project Developmental Continuity. Discussed are administration, education, preservice and inservice training, developmental support services, parent involvement, handicapped, and bilingual/bicultural components. (SB)

College athletics programs have more than an image problem. One of the best ways to stop the scandals is for presidents to take control of their institutions' programs,particularly in the areas of academic standards, financial aid, the quality of the federation, and the amount of emphasis given to athletics. (MSE)