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Allen, Patrick; Howard, Joan – 1982
A teacher's guide to an English as a second language (ESL) and geography module entitled "Canada's Golden Horseshoe" is presented. ESL modules are multimedia kits designed to integrate the study of ESL and communication skills in specific subject areas of the curriculum. This module deals with a geographical region, important both to…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Audiotape Cassettes, Audiovisual Instruction, Communication Skills
Hoy, John C., Ed.; Bernstein, Melvin H., Ed. – 1982
A collection of analyses and projections is presented that explores the challenges posed by a rapidly evolving economy and the critical issue of manpower policy facing New England and the nation. New England was able to move from traditional industry to high technology because its colleges and universities supplied basic research and trained…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Declining Enrollment, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1982
To help school boards and superintendents assess fringe benefit packages in their districts, this fourth biennial survey presents data on nonsalary compensation for public school superintendents in a national stratified sample of 1,036 of the nation's 11,313 public school systems. Arrayed in 38 tables, the data are classified by district…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices
Tedesco, Juan Carlos – 1983
Trends in higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, educational goals, financing of universities, and future prospects are discussed. Attention is directed to the expansion of higher education, the relationship of expansion to the social structure and to democratization, access to higher education by women, access in relation to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Developing Nations, Economic Factors
Lenth, Charles S. – 1985
Ways in which student financial aid programs affect the distribution of resources within postsecondary education are examined. Attention is directed to: (1) funding trends in the major federal student aid programs since 1970-1971; (2) the distribution of total Pell Grant resources among sectors and programs of different lengths, (3) the…
Descriptors: College Students, Federal Aid, Federal State Relationship, Geographic Regions
Valentine, Jerry; And Others – 1981
A national questionnaire survey of 1,413 principals of middle-level schools (those offering any combination of grades 5 through 9) gathered data on principals' personal and professional traits, tasks, problems, and opinions on selected educational issues; on school programs; and on student, school, staff, and community characteristics. The data…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Community Characteristics, Demography
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Research, Information Systems, and Institutional Aid. – 1978
The third of a series on higher education enrollment patterns and trends in New York State for 1974-76, this report is aimed primarily at an audience concerned with policy analysis related to college enrollments. The first section presents interstate residence and migration data and views New York State within the national context. The section…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Trends, Geographic Distribution
Georgia Univ., Athens. – 1966
TITLE I OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 CALLS FOR STATE PLANS FOR COMPREHENSIVE, COORDINATED, AND STATEWIDE SYSTEMS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS. IN THE GEORGIA STATE PLAN THE PROGRAM PURPOSES ARE OUTLINED, THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA IS DESIGNATED THE STATE AGENCY FOR PLAN ADMINISTRATION (INCLUDING ALLOCATING FEDERAL FUNDS TO PARTICIPATING…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Problems, Community Services, Continuing Education Centers
Green, Kenneth C.; King, Margo R. – 1981
The results of the 1980 Freshman Survey, which is part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), are summarized, and trend data concerning students enrolled in colleges in the western states and in the nation are examined. Among the findings of the 1980 Freshman Survey are the following: grade inflation in the nation's high schools…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends, Geographic Regions
Lewis, Charles E.; And Others – 1970
This report describes a developmental project in occupational education aimed at the unemployed, underemployed, and economically disadvantaged adults living in the 7-county northeastern North Carolina area served by The College of The Albemarle, one of 13 state community colleges. Partially funded by a foundation grant, this project included a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Development, Developmental Programs, Disadvantaged Environment
Rock, Donald A.; Hemphill, John K. – 1966
This report presents some of the data gathered in a survey of approximately 4,500 junior high school principals in the United States during the 1964-65 school year. Two different questionnaires were used in the survey, with approximately 2,200 principals responding to each questionnaire. Various questions examined the personal and professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
White, Fred; Tweeten, Luther – 1972
The paper shows costs of elementary and secondary schools applicable to Oklahoma rural areas, including the long-run average cost curve which indicates the minimum per student cost for educating various numbers of students and the application of the cost curves determining the optimum school district size. In a stratified sample, the school…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness, Diagrams
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1970
The regional seminars of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) are designed to provide inservice training and planning experiences to foster the professional growth of state department of education, university, and local AE/ABE staff members. The third regional seminar was aimed at developing ongoing, self-supporting training programs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Commission, St. Paul. – 1976
Recommendations for the future of postsecondary education at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, and for postsecondary education in the entire southwestern region of the state are presented. The year-long study examined the problem of declining enrollment at Southwest State as well as its implications for the entire region. The…
Descriptors: Costs, Declining Enrollment, Educational Assessment, Educational Demand
Sauer, Carl – 1975
Written to provide a view of the American landscape as it was before the European colonization, this book consists of 14 units which provide portraits of the American Indian tribes who occupied the land, on a bio-regional basis. The units are about the: basket makers of California, gatherers of desert and mountain, fishers of the streams, boat…
Descriptors: American History, American Indians, Area Studies, Cultural Awareness
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