A model for the evaluation of educational products is being applied in the evaluation of the Educational Cooperative Development Program of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory. The Laboratory is conducting a three-year field test of a regional organizational management structure to increase the problem solving capabilities of school…

This document reviews the role of the state and land-grant universities in America. Emphasis is placed on historical background and the role of these schools in light of recent developments. The first chapter concerns enrollment trends, changing emphasis on career goals, response to students, the arts, advanced placement, the honor student,…

This study presents a methodology for planning the efficient development of the educational infrastructure in a region. It is primarily concerned with solving the problem of how one allocates an exogenously fixed set of resources among different educational programs. In addition it deals with such related issues as: How does one choose among…

This document is a description of Follow Through, a research and development program for disadvantaged children of low-income families that fosters projects around the country emphasizing parental and community involvement. The paper indicates that each project must be comprehensive in scope and directly focus on all aspects of child learning and…

This document examines reform and development of higher education in France, Poland, and the Netherlands. Part I examines facets of higher education in France including the tasks of the universities: research, teaching, and development of higher training and continuing education; present structures of French universities; increase in student…

This paper describes the crucial factors of a design for university development overseas based on the Rockefeller Foundation efforts in overseas development. These factors include a definable rationale, an explicit criteria, a plan for various stages of development and institutional capacity for grappling with problems of national development.…

This report contains a series of speeches by educators at a meeting held in 1973 in Moscow. The agenda dealt with improvements within the system of higher educational institutions. Presentations concern horizons of the higher school, achievements and prospects of higher education, science and the university, internship as an effective form of…

This report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) generated by congressional concern over the accomplishments of educational research, reviews the activities and impact of the contractors (educational laboratories and research and development--R&D centers) supported by the Cooperative Research Act under the direction of the U.S. Office of…

A study looked at the possibilities for a user-based information system which could provide usable structured information about educational technology and attempted to determine how best to supply information about educational process to users. The study had three phases. The first surveyed the literature and activities of centers concerned with…

Bulletin number 1 of 17 stated that it will be published at regular monthly intervals. Its purpose is to inform member states, United Nations agencies, National Commissions for UNESCO, non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations of plans for "International Education Year 1970 (IEY)" and coming events. As proclaimed by…

During his postdoctoral fellowship year, Dr. Schmeding audited courses in the sociology and economics of education, educational development and planning, and instructional technology. He also did independent study in these areas. (RT)

This topical paper is a record of the events leading to the creation of a statewide system of publicly supported comprehensive community colleges for Virginia. Commission and legislative reports are reviewed, as are contributions made by influential state legislators, educational leaders, and outside consultants. The plan finally enacted provided…

This paper predicts three directions toward which educational research should focus in the future. First, education for the culturally disadvantaged needs new ideas that will produce effects of whose educational significance there can be no doubt. The group forces that Bronfenbrenner has described as being at the basis of Soviet methods of…

The Educational Development Officer (EDO) is a new kind of college administrator, a full-time catalyst for change. In the Junior and Community College Division of the National Laboratory for Higher Education (NLHE), the EDO has been defined as an innovation-minded professional who questions existing practices, works constantly for constructive…

Proceedings of the 1970 Conservation Education Association Conference, held at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, are reported. The theme of the conference was conservation education for quality living. Summaries for each of the topics discussed form the main content of the report: Suggestions for Developing Curriculum…