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Cheek, James E. – 1977
Universities can play an important role in advancing equality of education since they wield influence over the process of learning itself, over institutions and attitudes, and they play an important role in determining the status and life chances of individuals. In view of the fact that there is a definite and positive relation between education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Education, Blacks, Educational Responsibility
Holbrook, D. W. – 1976
Voluntary accreditation is considered to be the strength of the American educational system. Presently, the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA) is the umbrella organization in the field of accreditation representing approximately 7,000 colleges, universities, and professional programs. The major mandate of COPA is to build and strengthen…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Correspondence Schools
Download full textSutton, Francis X.; And Others – 1974
Three papers concerned with internationalizing higher education in the U.S. are presented with a commentary giving a Swedish perspective. The first paper, The International Role of the University in the Decades Ahead, emphasizes the need for area studies that will contribute to the general and liberal education of students. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Needs, Educational Responsibility
Peer reviewedAllen, James E., Jr. – School Management, 1971
The time for real change in education is here--and it must be a change that is basic--in line with new perspectives on national purposes. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Educational Responsibility
Direct linkRusch, Frank R.; Loomis, Frederick D. – Exceptional Parent, 2005
During the past quarter century, federal legislation has resulted in fundamental changes in the way youth with special needs are educated. Despite legal mandates and substantial funding support, only minimal progress has been made in the rate at which exceptional children progress through school to the world of work. During the past 30 years,…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Young Adults, Special Needs Students, Employment Opportunities
Platt, John – 1977
Changes in the content, scope, and methods of education--both in and outside the classroom--in the new high-information high-communication electronic world society are discussed. Specific areas of discussion are changes in work and leisure, the electronic schoolroom, a curriculum for the new world, new modes of awareness, using the electronic…
Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Educational Innovation, Educational Responsibility, Educational Technology
BADGER, C. R. – 1966
THIS ARTICLE SUPPORTS THE 1966 RECOMMENDATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION IN PROPOSING THAT FEDERAL FUNDS SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO UNIVERSITIES FOR ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS NOT SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE WORK OF THE UNIVERSITY, OR NOT CONDUCTED AT THE PROPER ACADEMIC LEVEL. UNIVERSITIES ARE URGED INSTEAD TO ENGAGE IN (1) CRITICAL…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation, Educational Needs
Bell, T. H. – 1976
The accomplishments and activities of the National and State Advisory Councils, the implications of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976, and opportunities and problems now facing vocational education are discussed. The author comments that the amendments (1976) are primarily concerned with defining the Federal role in vocational education,…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Educational Legislation
Crosby, Emeral A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
The public and its political leaders seem unwilling to support unconditionally the American creed of equal educational opportunity for all. The proliferation of teen pregnancy, school violence, illegal drugs, homelessness, poverty, suicide, AIDS, and unemployment shows that youngsters' social environment has severely deteriorated since the release…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1976
On November 11 and December 5, 1975, the subcommittee heard testimony on: (1) the administration and organizational structure of programs with the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) designed primarily to enhance the educational opportunities for the children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and (2) the Federal government's responsibility and role…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Programs, Educational Responsibility, Federal Government
Peer reviewedPace, Prudence Posner – Urban Education, 1983
Public schools in America have been the arena in which our society has fought over such values as private versus public support, sectarian versus nonsectarian control, elitist or democratic control, and integration versus segregation. Progressive people should support publicly funded and administered schools, thus supporting democratic values in…
Descriptors: Democracy, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives
Tractenberg, Paul – 1980
The fifth of eight related documents, this booklet is part of a series of papers presented at the 1978 National Right to Read Conference examining issues and problems in literacy. In examining the issue of student accountability, this booklet first sets forth the prototypical case of pupil illiteracy and surveys the arguments that can be made for…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Accountability, Court Role, Educational Legislation
Howe, Harold , II – 1966
This speech discusses the Federal role in initiating educational change and its relationship to the functions and activities of local school boards and districts. It is noted that, despite the enormous increase in Federal expenditures, the control over education is still vested in state and local bodies, and this local control may result in both…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Educational Responsibility, Federal Aid
Dawson, Howard A., Comp.; Hubbard, Frank W., Comp. – 1944
The White House Conference on Rural Education (1944) called together 230 of the country's best known rural educators to lay plans for the peacetime establishment of our educational system on a better basis than we have ever known before (with Federal aid when necessary). One of the dynamic outcomes of the four conference sessions was compilation…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Educational Responsibility
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1974
In recent years, parents and other citizens have lost their influence over local school boards because of increasing enrollment and district consolidation, lack of contact between board members and classroom teachers, teacher organization and subsequent veto power over boards, and the bureaucratization of educational systems. To alleviate this,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Board of Education Role, Community Control, Educational Policy
