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Muller, Jane, Ed. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1977
Background data pertaining to postsecondary education in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio are presented as part of a seminar on statewide concerns about the future of public higher education, which was part of an inservice education program. For each state the following is included: demographic and fiscal information, a description of the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Curriculum, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1982
Summarizing recent trends and developments in public and private education in the United States, this report examines Constitutional and statutory provisions for education, discusses recent federal legislation, and describes the role of state and local authorities in the governance of elementary, secondary, and higher education. Expenditures,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
Gue, Leslie R.; Chareonchai, Ruang – 1980
The summary report, a condensed version of the final report of the Thai-Alberta Cooperative Assessment Project, is drawn largely from Chapter 8 of the final report and presents the essential nature, scope, and findings of a project involving data from over 5,000 Thai participants (principals, teachers, students, parents and alumni) in a sample of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Demography, Educational Assessment
Erickson, Donald A. – 1978
This paper distills from a research conference, arranged by the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), six questions that constitute an agenda for research on private education. Discussed after each of the following proposed questions are some of the past research studies relevant to the question, and the status of research in progress.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Catholic Schools, Databases
Arimoto, Akira – 1978
The characteristics of the Japanese academic structure are examined with attention to the evolution of institutional hierarchy, the closed academic structure, and the effects of the academic structure upon academic research. The evolution of Japan's institutional hierarchy in academics has been tightly related to factors of nationalism,…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, College Role, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Whitehead, John S. – 1978
Part of a series of studies on higher education in different countries, this paper examines the organization of higher education in Denmark, the growth of the system, the nature of the parliamentary legislation of the 1970's, and the Danish system from the standpoint of institution-building. There are three state-supported sectors of higher…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Environment, College Role, Comparative Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1978
This report is volume 2 in a series of studies conducted and published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Programme on Educational Building (PEB) on the theme of coordination of school and community facilities. The report is intended to illustrate by means of concrete examples the general conclusions on…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Centers, Community Services, Coordination
Blanc, Emile; Egger, Eugene – 1978
Educational innovation in Switzerland is discussed according to complexity and flexibility of educational policy, the amount and nature of innovations, and the place of Swiss educational innovations in international education. Areas in which innovations have occurred include school organization, course content, and teaching objectives and methods.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Compulsory Education, Course Content, Educational Change
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McGowan, Eleanor Farrar; DeSanctis, John E. – 1976
The first part of a larger study of Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), this report deals with the implementation of EBCE during its first operational year and identifies six major themes which emerged from visits to the four laboratories which developed EBCE and to 10 EBCE pilot sites. The themes, each presented in a different chapter,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Education, Educational Development, Educational Finance
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1979
One of the goals for community education is to encourage the widest use of school buildings for activities that promote learning among youth and adults. Through legislation passed by the 66th Texas Legislature, community education will be expanded to many more school districts and communities throughout the state. This publication has been…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Budgeting, Community Education
Detroit Board of Education, MI. Citizens Advisory Committee on Equal Educational Opportunities. – 1962
THIS 1962 REPORT CONTAINS THE FINDINGS OF A 2-YEAR ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN THE DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ALTHOUGH FACTORS ARE EXAMINED WHICH AFFECT THE EDUCATION OF ALL PUPILS, THE REPORT PARTICULARLY FOCUSES ON RACE RELATIONS, DISCRIMINATION, AND THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH. SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED ARE…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Bus Transportation, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Dept. of Rural Education. – 1963
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1947 AND 1963 ARE LISTED IN THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RURAL EDUCATION. TWO GENERAL SECTIONS LIST COMPREHENSIVE VOLUMES AND OTHER BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND THE REMAINDER ARE LISTED UNDER SPECIFIC SUBDIVISIONS, I.E., SCHOOL ORGANIZATION AND REORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION AND…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Curriculum
THOMAS, GEORGE ISAIAH – 1966
THIS REPORT EXPLORES PLANS OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ORGANIZATION BASED UPON THE LENGTHENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR TO REDUCE BY ONE OR MORE YEARS THE TOTAL PERIOD OF SCHOOLING. PRACTICAL INFORMATION IS PRESENTED CONCERNING (1) THE CONTINUOUS SCHOOL YEAR PLAN, (2) THE TRIMESTER PLAN, (3) THE QUADRIMESTER PLAN, (4) THE MODIFIED SUMMER SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Costs, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Educational Improvement
Jencks, Christopher – 1966
Although schools have increased influence over the social-psychological development of youth, they do not provide diversity in nonacademic domains. In addition, the apparent diversity among institutions is of little value because institutions are not located or administered in such a way that individuals can choose freely between them.…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Community Colleges, Decentralization, Educational Improvement
Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, New Delhi (India). – 1977
This report, stressing India's National Policy on Education (1968), discusses the structure and content of India's educational system. This policy promotes education as a powerful instrument of social and economic change. It provides for the implementation of universal and free compulsory education; agricultural, technical, and adult education;…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum, Developing Nations, Educational Administration
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