Article discussed how state planning can help the formerly independent parts of postsecondary education work together to build an effective, pluralistic system. (Editor/RK)

Examines and describes the extent of regionalization in the administration of public education in Canada. Focus is on the features of regional offices of education. (Author/DN))

Presented is the first of a series of annual reports designed to tell the community what has been acomplished and what yet needs to be achieved in providing free appropriate public education to the handicapped children of Maryland. The document is divided into the major sections of Philosophy, Goals, Objectives, State of the State, Children,…

A cooperative approach to mainstreaming between a school for the deaf and a nearby regional Occupational Education Center of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in New York State was investigated in four programs representing local variations of this model for partial mainstreaming. Three distinct periods of the mainstreaming…

This report presents the results of a pilot test by the Texas Water Quality Board (TWQB) of a manpower planning methodology developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water Programs. Project outputs are described and illustrated in sections of the report dealing with work to be done, organizational staffing plan,…

The purposes of this report are: to describe the main elements of the U.S. agricultural extension model and its effects on the agricultural revolution; to analyze attempts to extend this model to non-agricultural technology and/or to less developed countries; and to draw general conclusions about the diffusion of technological innovations, with…

Any state-level postsecondary education agency could perform its job more effectively through discriminate use of the available technology of informational and analytic planning approaches. The paper attempts to increase an awareness of how data, analytic techniques, and their product information should be used to assist state-level academic…

Topics summarized in this annual report of the Library Association for 1974 include continued development in international cooperation; the future of professional qualifications; a Working Party on Association Services report regarding the efficient running of the Association; careful budget planning due to the steady advance of inflation;…

Topics summarized in this annual report of the Library Association for 1975 include reduction of number and functions of standing committees; continued international relations; success of the Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA); professional library education; cuts in library expenditure; association membership; research and development…

When the Freedom of Information Act of 1966 was amended, despite President Ford's veto, expectations for improved access to federal agency records were high. This report details the manner in which information seekers, particularly members of the media, were deterred from using the act by nine loopholes in the 1966 law. In addition, the process…

Considers the development and experience of the state faculty senate as a means for the local faculty senates to operate at the state level influencing state policy and providing a communication link that represents the interests of its member schools. (JT)

A study of vocational guidance in a Federal German agency shows discrepancies between performance and the formally legislated job description; welfare bureaucrats reduce formally stated role schemes in order to cope. The relational, normative, and functional aspects of reduction are discussed, and mechanisms of cognitive reconciliation of roles…

Utilizing primarily interview data, one midwestern War on Poverty agency is examined with respect to the alternative, often conflicting ways it was perceived by various types of program participants and interested observers. The relationship of the local agency with the Office of Economic Opportunity is surveyed, reasons for conflict both within…