A survey study to determine why Missouri Extension Youth Agents resigned or changed positions within the Extension Division revealed that while no single factor was responsible, there were a number of factors or reasons why this occurred. Among them were the following: (1) poor understanding of the duties and responsibilities of a youth agent at…

This study compares the perceptions of the educational policymaking process held by education interest group staffs with those of State legislators. Structured interviews were held with executive officers in six major education organizations, and 207 legislators were surveyed by personal interviews during the 1969 legislative session. Categories…

Chapter 1 of this book, "Stimulating Educational Change Through Inservice Teacher Education," deals first with the conditions, the elements receptive to, and the mechanics of change, and then discusses the cooperative responsibilities of colleges, state departments of education, professional organizations, and local school districts for inservice…

Statements of several national and state leaders concerning the importance of outdoor recreation begin this report. Methods of financing outdoor recreation by State and Federal agencies, private foundations, and regional and intergovernmental departments are given and briefly discussed. The section on organization and administration is divided…

It has been observed in too many colleges that a public relations or school relations program was supposedly the business of all college personnel and wound up being the business of none. Suggested guidelines for setting up a school relations program on a college campus include: (1) such an office should be headed by a director and placed under a…

The Pennsylvania Advancement School, a nonprofit corporation under contract to the School District of Philadelphia (partially funded under ESEA Titles I and III), is working for the second year toward its goal of stimulating positive change in the education community. Four important elements comprising the model school are the autonomy allowing it…

Urban planning agencies are presently playing a role in planning for community health services and facilities, and could increase this role in the future. Data gathered from published information, questionnaires, and field studies are used to: (1) describe and analyze the health service and facility planning currently being done by urban planning…

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a Federal agency started in August 1972, is concerned primarily with educational research and development. Programs existing prior to NIE, including most of the research programs of the Office of Education and several programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity, were transferred to NIE. In addition,…

With a major emphasis on cooperative planning in rural development, three elements of development process were identified: (1) integration of units involved, occurring when several organizations contribute to a larger collective effort; (2) decentralized planning and local initiative, occurring when planning initiative is at the local level; (3)…

This document reviews the Virginia Research Utilization Specialist (RUS) project which began in 1969 to assist in demonstrating effective methods of research utilization in the State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies. Nine RUS personnel were involved in the demonstration project and developed the following activities: (1) work on a statewide…

A proposal was presented at Regional Child Welfare League of America Conference, Totonto, March 1973 which claims that the majority of issues, tasks and problems in foster care and adoption are similar and that family life, whether original, foster or adoptive, is essentially the same. The author contends that adoption agencies must take on an…

This document contains statements and correspondence addressed to a Senate hearing on the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs chaired by Senator Henry M. Jackson. This hearing concerned a bill to amend the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-597, 86 Stat. 1319) to expand and make permanent the Youth Conservation Corps. The…

This directory is intended to provide information on agency training centers to Federal officials, encourage better cooperation between levels of government, and aid training officers in course selection for employees in "Upward Mobility" programs. The number and variety of programs are identified, and their general characteristics and eligibility…

This report summarizes the results of the National Science Foundation's 1970 survey of scientific activities of independent nonprofit institutions. Data on the employment of scientists, engineers, and technicians, on expenditures, and on the R&D performance in the entire independent nonprofit sector are presented in section 1. Sections 2 and 4…

The objective of the survey was to identify and describe all significant public programs providing educational services for handicapped children in New York State. Data were gathered on the purposes of each state program under which handicapped children receive services, characteristics of children served, distribution of services throughout the…