This is one of four papers prepared by the Legal Standards Project. It is concerned with whether the legal requirements for state administration of Title I are set forth with adequate clarity and sufficiency and whether the legal framework adequately interrelates different functions state educational agencies must perform in the process of…

This booklet is designed to familiarize newcomers to university administration in the United Kingdom with the composition and role of national agencies interested in higher education. In addition, it provides some basic facts about the university system, a list of references, and a note about training opportunities provided by the Committee of…

The focus of this testimony, presented to a public hearing before the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is on the legal differences between attacks upon discrimination in the north and in the south; it is noted that the legal problems facing the north and the south have been becoming more and more the same. (Author/JM)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, by the Assistant Administrator, Office of Equal Opportunity, City Housing and Development Administration, advocates a policy which combines ghetto enrichment with programs designed to encourage integration of substantial numbers of Negroes into the…

Data from fiscal 1979 provide the basis for an analysis of distribution of Federal dollars among county areas and assessment of major recent trends. Federal per capita funding remains unevenly divided among the regions; however, the advantage of the West and South may be moderating somewhat. The spread of some Federal programs into more rural…

This report contains descriptive summaries of the results of the Inter-Project/Inter-Country Study Visits on Educational Technology sponsored by the UNESCO Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) to provide an opportunity for specialists in educational technology from the participating countries to: (1) make on-site…

One of 10 studies commissioned to investigate research needs and to stimulate planning activities, this paper reviews program evaluation in foreign language education (FLED), and offers a number of recommendations to improve present practice. It begins by noting that very little FLED program evaluation is taking place today, and by arguing that…

In an attempt to identify and evaluate the quality and quantity of minority participation in the developmental disabilities (DD) movement, the first year of this study included a series of parent/consumer and service provider meetings throughout the country. Separate meetings were held for parents/consumers and for agency personnel in each city.…

The purposes of this national study of independent, nonagency adoptions were: (1) to determine the experience of the parties involved (biological parents, adoptive parents, agencies, intermediaries, and law enforcement agents); (2) to identify agency policies, procedures and resources that deter agency adoptions and thus encourage independent…

Until recently other countries (Australia, Great Britain, the Scandinavian countries) have been well ahead of the United States in development of rural education policy, In 1969 and again in 1977 the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) produced task force reports with recommendations for rural education. The 1969 recommendations were very specific and…

This abstract bibliography cites recent ERIC documents and journal articles concerning the rights of children--in relation to the home, the school and other institutions--and advocacy for children. Entries include resumes from Resources in Education (RIE), January 1974 through December 1977, and citations from Current Index to Journals in…

This volume presents a completed example of the organizational development process for a fictitious program entitled "The Ridge," and is designed to assist the user in gaining greater understanding of the utility of an organizational development model. The materials are presented in a four-phase sequence, addressing the following topics:…

The criteria and procedures by which accrediting and state approval agencies are evaluated were assessed to determine how well they identify the agencies that can be relied on to make sound judgments of educational quality. The detailed examination of the content of the staff reports, the judgments of the relative importance of specific agency…

The historical development of the criteria used by the United States Commissioner of Education to recognize approval and accrediting agencies is discussed. The criteria have evolved from the simple, six-part 1948 edition to the draft of the new edition which encompasses 54 criteria. The proposed criteria, like the 1948 version and unlike those of…

Issues pertinent to evaluation of statewide boards of higher education are considered, and the cases of South Carolina and several other states are covered. Evaluation is seen as a form of accountability. Reasons why better, more formal evaluation of statewide boards will be important to a wide range of constituencies--such as trends toward…