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Schock, Lisa; Daugherty, Jane – 2001
In November 2000, the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, convened an Issues Meeting focused on Rate-Setting Policies: Ensuring Access and Improving Quality. The meeting brought together state child care administrators and others for discussions on conducting effective market…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Conference Proceedings, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Friedman, Dana E., Ed. – 1979
This conference report defines the need for community solutions for child care, discusses community child care provision and funding, and suggests strategies for child care advocates. The first two sections of the report discuss the results of the Family Circle Magazine Child Care Survey and foundation, government, labor and industry funding…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Child Advocacy, Child Care, Community Involvement
Holmstrom, Engin Inel, Ed. – Policy Analysis Service Reports, 1975
During the spring of 1974 a series of seminars on student aid programs and student access were held in connection with the congressional hearings on Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The final seminar in the series focused on the labor market predictions and conditions facing college graduates. The presentations reported on four major areas;…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Conference Reports, Conferences, Employment Opportunities
Pacific Telecommunications Council, Honolulu, HI. – 1993
This packet of materials from the Mid-Year Seminar of the Pacific Telecommunications Council begins with lists of attendees and participants and the conference agenda. Papers include the following: (1) "Global Trends-Restructuring, Privatization, Finance, Investment: Worldwide Trends towards Liberalizing the Wireless Segment of…
Descriptors: Change, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Perry, Deborah F. – NEC*TAS Notes, 1991
This paper describes options available to states for distributing funds for preschool education programs in light of the mandate of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that states must provide a free public education to children with disabilities, age 3 through 5 years. It begins with a general discussion of the different types of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Jones, Russel C., Ed. – 1992
This document reports the proceedings of a workshop on Technological Literacy. The objectives of the workshop were: to review programs and to identify issues in technological literacy for liberal arts majors; to discuss mechanisms for the stimulation of appropriate additional technological literacy programs; and to develop an action plan for…
Descriptors: Courseware, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Engineering Technology
1974
This booklet presents (in both English and French) four papers delivered at a seminar on day care in Ottawa, Canada in 1969: (1) "The Family in Contemporary Society and Emerging Family Patterns," (2) "The Effects of Early Childhood Experience" (on social and cognitive development), (3) "An Overview of Canadian Day Care…
Descriptors: Child Care, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Delivery Systems
VanBiervliet, Alan; Parette, Howard P., Jr. – 1989
The Technology Access for Arkansans (TAARK) project has focused on identifying the need for and quality of technology provisions for the disabled in the state, disseminating information, and developing a state plan. This paper summarizes meetings held by six study groups formed to facilitate the planning process. Each group was assigned a specific…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Administrative Policy, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Consumer Education
Public Health Service (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1980
A summary of proceedings of the Forum on Arthritis Research and Education in Nursing and Allied Health is presented. The keynote address, "The Burden of Arthritis," by Dorothy P. Rice, provides data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics on the prevalence of arthritis, the burden it imposes, and the volume, type, and cost…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Bibliographies, Disease Incidence, Diseases
Wasser, Henry, Ed. – 1978
Proceedings from a conference on the economics of higher education are presented. Following an introduction by Henry Wasser and opening remarks by Mina Rees, a paper by Gareth Williams is presented. In "The Buffer Under Pressure: An Examination of the British System of Financing Higher Education in Periods of Affluence and Stringency,"…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Conference Reports