Virginia's noble but flawed effort to bypass the U.S. Postal Service through electronic mail was an attempt to reduce the river of paper between state and local school officials and the mounting burden of paperwork reporting felt by administrators and teachers. Other valiant efforts in Ohio, Florida, and South Carolina are described. (MLH)

Monitoring the well-being of children and adolescents is a critical component of efforts to prevent psychological, behavioral, and health problems and to promote their successful development. Research during the past 40 years has helped identify aspects of child and adolescent functioning that are important to monitor. These aspects, which…

Examines pitfalls in analyzing school-level data, particularly expenditure data. Examples come from Ohio's experience with creating usable data structures for examining school-level information, aided by a statewide, complex, multipurpose Education Management Information System (EMIS). Since districts can choose different reporting software…

THE COMPILATION OF A FILE OF MEDIA RESEARCH LITERATURE, COVERING THE PERIOD FROM 1920 TO 1965, FOR USE WITH A COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WAS DESCRIBED. PERIODICAL, NONPERIODICAL, PUBLISHED, AND UNPUBLISHED LITERATURE IN A NUMBER OF FIELDS WAS SCANNED. THE PROCEDURE WAS ONE OF FOLLOWING LEADS INDICATED BY REFERENCES ACCOMPANYING…

The report is a ten-part study of prospects for cable television (CATV) in the 13 communities that make up metropolitan Dayton, Ohio. The first three parts deal with the technology and economics of CATV. The next five deal with services that could be provided via CATV. Part seven describes how CATV could be useful for elementary and secondary…

Expanded Internet access to the Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) would provide adults in Ohio who need to or wish to make career changes with the best available information about occupations, education and training programs, and financial aid. In order to determine the feasibility of improving access without cost to users, an advisory group,…

For years, doing laundry at Columbia University (New York) was just as labor-intensive as it is at most universities. Fortunately, as of last spring, laundry life at Columbia has changed dramatically. Today, with the help of a real-time Web-based service called LaundryView, students can log on to the system via the LaundryView Web site from a link…

The report summarizes a ten-part study of prospects for cable television (CATV) in the 13 communities that make up the metropolitan area of Dayton, Ohio. The report, written in non-technical language, deals with the economics and technology of CATV, the range of new services that might be provided via CATV, and questions of franchising and…

The purpose of Preschool Units EMIS Staff Report is twofold. First, it helps School Districts and Educational Service Centers (ESC) ensure accuracy and validity of preschool staff, student and program data submitted to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) through the Education Management Information System (EMIS). From this report, school…

Purpose: Through an examination of the admission department at Miami University of Ohio and their use of information technology, a generalized framework for the use of information technology in university admissions is proposed. Design/methodology/approach: The paper was developed to start an introduction to the admission process and the role of…

According to James Robertson, the managing director of Step Two Designs, a content management consultancy, "A content management system supports the creation, management, distribution, publishing, and discovery of corporate information. It covers the complete lifecycle of the pages of one's site, from providing simple tools to create the…

The authors outline the school finance reform process in Ohio, emphasizing the groups that played central roles in the process. The major group was the state legislature and its policy study group, the Educational Review Committee, but the state department of education, the various educational associations, and the executive branch were also…

This guide is intended to serve as a program planning model for a workshop or series of workshops to promote awareness and share information on the newly created Ohio Entrepreneurship File, one of five state data files operated on the computerized Ohio Career Information System (OCIS). The guide includes background information on the project for…

This is a report of a state-wide committee established by the Vice-Chancellor for Two-Year Campuses to develop a system of definitions and reporting for Ohio's two-year colleges. Specifically, the committee's goals were: (1) to suggest a conceptually focused glossary of terms which could be used to assure uniformity and comparability of data; (2)…

A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO EXPLORE IN A QUALITATIVE WAY THE POSSIBLE UTILIZATION OF COMPUTER AND DATA PROCESSING METHODS IN HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO ESTABLISH A WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH A COMPUTER FACILITY SO THAT ABLE STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO THE FACILITIES, (2) TO DEVELOP A UNIT FOR THE UTILIZATION…