Research and professional training programs on deafness sponsored by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare are introduced and detailed in chart form. The programs are listed according to the Department agencies responsible, including the following divisions of the Social and Rehabilitation Service: the Rehabilitation Services…

A workshop conducted in Bowling Green, Ohio, in the summer of 1969 focused attention on identifying problem areas of migrant education and considered some solutions to these problems. The report includes 3 presentations made to the seminar participants. The presentations are entitled (1) The Linguistic Approach in Teaching English as a Second…

Information is provided concerning Florida's facilities construction plan for the mentally retarded. Aspects covered include the administering state agency, methods of administration, and program development. Also detailed are the following: needs and services for Florida's mentally retarded; inventory, services, and programing; and priorities.…

Provided is a competency based career ladder model (developed for Colorado) to enable universities and colleges to improve preservice programs for teachers of the moderately and severely retarded, and to aid state and local agencies in planning meaningful inservice programs. Administration requires cooperation of state groups such as the state…

Following a welcoming address by the Governor of Tennessee, fifteen speeches were presented at the seminar. W. H. Pierce examined approaches to educational governance at the State level. Management, its efficiency, effectiveness, and organization, was the topic of several speeches (J. D. Mills, D. K. Gentry and C. F. Lamar). The development of…

This study represents an attempt to discern what responsibility the State should assume for regulating the education of the young, and what is the most defensible approach to fulfilling that responsibility. Analyses of this type could be timely, especially in the light of the spreading "alternative schools" movement; growing recognition among…

The 1973 seminar focused on improving administrative activities of State vocational education agencies, and emphasis was given to the processes and innovative concepts related to the maintenance and improvement of administrative activities. Guidelines and position papers were presented in the following areas: (1) The Role of Vocational Education…

A directory of programs and services available to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Michigan, this document is the fourth in the Comprehensive National Survey of Migrant Programs series. Information for the directory was obtained entirely from Federal, state, and local agencies in Michigan prior to September 1973. Special emphasis was placed on…

The Parent Child Center Management Information System, the first operational MIS for a social action program relating to child welfare, consists of three interlocking components: a standard set of recordkeeping forms for the local Parent Child Center; a set of quarterly reporting forms that interface with the recordkeeping forms; and a series of…

The results of a survey conducted among departments of the San Francisco Bay Area cities, counties and special districts are summarized. The project investigated the degree to which local government agencies used media for staff training, internal documentation and public information purposes and included within its scope the use of slides, film,…

Reported in the manual are systems procedures to assess needs of educable mentally retarded (EMR) children and adults in three Florida counties in terms of EMR student and teacher assessment, EMR classroom programs, job opportunities, and services available, as a first step in developing a total curriculum. Described are the project's 3 year…

This booklet gives detailed accounts of mental health programs in operation around the nation. A total of nine different types of activities is included. "Helping Children" describes a program whereby students from nearby colleges give troubled children, at home, an experience in friendship by serving as big brothers or sisters. "Helping the…

In this report on a state-Federal program designed to help solve the problems of the migrant population in Accomack County, Virginia, it is estimated that, by early July of every year, almost 10,000 migrant adults and children establish temporary residence in the counties of Accomack and Northampton on Virginia's eastern shore. As noted, the…

The papers gathered here are designed to provide a foundation of background information for those charged with the responsibility of formulating school district goals regarding cable television (CATV) and of obtaining the necessary cooperation from the local CATV franchise operators to reach these goals. The position of the National Education…

This fifty-ninth annual report of the United States Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1971 contains a 6-page report by the Secretary of Labor, 11 separate Federal Department reports, and a variety of appended tables covering such areas as enrollments and funding for various government programs. Detailing the initiation or improvement of a…