A survey by Illinois Plan for Home Economics Education of 51 state supervisors of vocational home economics found that 40 have recently revised the secondary home economics curriculum; only 10 had research underway in support of home economics; most favored family and/or family-work issues in the curriculum; and 40 considered their home economics…

Responses from 49 of 50 state supervisors found that (1) the change from industrial arts to technology education is appropriate; (2) change could be accelerated by adequate funding; (3) four states are expanding beyond the four clusters; (4) more resources for teacher retraining are needed; and (5) few cited teacher educators and school…

The Conference report reviewed the status of man's environment and drafted guidelines for state education agencies to use for developing state programs related to environmental education. The six featured speakers and topics were: Kessler Cannon--"Report of the Governor's Committee on Natural Resources;" Dr. Harry…

The Modern Language Association's summer institute model for foreign language professionals focused on interchange among state and local school program supervisors and college program coordinators. To further strengthen links between mandates and implementation, the institute must recognize participants' disparate expectations, institutional…

The authors report results from a survey of all state supervisors of technology education. Information is included on the numbers of technology teachers in each state, certification issues, vacancies in technology education, and salaries. Data were also collected on student enrollments, funding, and curriculum issues. (CH)

To determine the attitudes of industrial arts educators throughout the nation toward a more uniform nationwide curriculum for industrial arts, an opinionnaire was completed by 130 of 150 selected industrial arts department chairmen of colleges and universities, by 36 of the 50 state industrial arts supervisors or consultants, and by 194 (88…

THE NARRATIVE PORTION OF THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE SPECIALLY DESIGNED 1966 NDEA SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR STATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPERVISORS HELD AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY. IT SUMMARIZES ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE SIX PRINCIPAL AREAS OF THE CURRICULUM--(1) STATISTICS, (2) EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND RESEARCH, (3) LINGUISTICS, (4) SUPERVISION AND CURRICULUM…

As a followup to the 1979 report by the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, "Strength Through Wisdom," a study was conducted to learn what progress has been made toward improving international knowledge among Americans. State foreign language supervisors and others responsible for international education…

To evaluate the effectiveness and extent of use of a vocational curriculum development guide prepared by the institute's participants, questionnaires and interview data were obtained and analyzed in 1969 from four sources: (1) the original participants (19 vocational educators), (2) their supervisors, (3) 35 State Directors of Vocational…

Research showed that vocational agriculture teachers, state supervisors, and teacher educators all ranked the following tasks as high priority: involvement with family, teaching in the classroom, providing on-farm instruction, involvement with discipline problems, determining curriculum, and advising meetings and activities of the Future Farmers…

This study was designed to determine the number of states that are currently implementing Science-Technology-Society (STS) education and similar society-based, science education programs (STS-surrogates) in the United States and to describe the nature of this implementation. STS is operationally defined as the interaction between science,…

DESIGNED FOR TEACHERS OR SCHOOL OFFICIALS INTERESTED IN THE RATIONALE AND PROBLEMS OF TEACHING FLES, THIS PACKET CONTAINS A DIVERSIFIED SELECTION OF ARTICLES AND REPORTS PUBLISHED FROM 1954 TO THE PRESENT. INCLUDED ARE--(1) "FLES--SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS," (2) "FLES--AN MLA STATEMENT OF POLICY," (3) "THE MEANING OF FLES" (BROOKS), (4) "A FL IN…

This study attempts to determine and compare the opinions of basic business authorities, state supervisors of business education, and high school basic business teachers regarding controversies related to the secondary school courses of general business and consumer education. (Author/CT)