This report summarizes the state submissions and provides a national overview of water quality as required in Section 305(b) of the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments (P.L. 92-500). Topics receiving the greatest coverage include toxic substances, quantitative assessments of the percentage of waters currently meeting the goals of…

Of the twenty-three vocational education projects funded during fiscal year 1975 under the U.S. Office of Education priority "Management Information Systems," the sixteen project reports available for review are analyzed in this report. Focus is on management information system development efforts as described in the reports, the intent…

The report on housing for the handicapped addresses three areas: the state of the art, issues involved in developing a housing program, and options and recommendations. Considered in the discussion of the state of the art are related federal legislation (including the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act); major governmental and private…

Reviews the accomplishments, goals, and problems of the commission during its first ten years. (IRT)

Describes the development of the state of Washington's computer-assisted bibliographic system, along with its present batch-mode cataloging support subsystem and efforts toward on-line integrated acquisitions and cataloging support. (LS)

South Carolina ETV is a multimillion dollar closed-circuit and standard open broadcast network reaching one-third of the state's public school pupils, hundreds of adults completing high school education, teacher certification, or graduate courses, and thousands of college students on campus or at home. Its college level programs are described. (JT)

Linear programing is an approach that Oklahoma is currently using to channel vocational and technical education programs into manpower areas that need training. (BP)

Initiated in 1981 to provide an update and to reaffirm the status of educational needs of a seven-state region, a revalidation study by Appalachia Educational Laboratory was conducted. Results indicated some variations from the needs expressed at state conferences in 1980, but the revalidation showed that the importance of educational needs had…

The New York State Regents Competency Tests in Writing and Comprehensive Examination in English reflect the belief that the current emphasis on test results mandates that testmakers produce tests that actually test what they purport to test, reflect what educators agree should be taught, and have a beneficial influence on teaching. Prior to the…

The report of the New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled looks at autism in five chapters concerned with characteristics of autism, parenting the autistic child, New York State's institutional care network for the autistic, perspectives of professionals on autism, and Commission recommendations. Among nine findings…

This is the report of a study undertaken by the Institute of Rehabilitation Issues to identify unique problems in rehabilitation services delivery to inner city nonwhite clients. Chapter 1 reviews the literature on vocational rehabilitation for people with mental and physical disabilities and points out the lack of research on nonwhite, lower…

These three booklets include the writing assessment tests of the Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program for grades 5, 8, and 11. The first exercise in each booklet is the writing of a story using a photograph as the stimulus. The second exercise is the revision of a story written previously. The eleventh grade test also includes a third exercise:…

This report documents the Hawaii Writing Assessment, which was undertaken to identify the writing strengths and weaknesses of Hawaii's public school children in kindergarten through grade twelve and to provide a basis for improvement in curriculum and instruction. The two sections of the report contain an overview of the assessment effort and…