This comparative study of primary school finance is based on ten studies of the arrangements for financing primary education in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. Chapter 1 describes the variety of approaches that individual countries…

Identifies how personnel officers in an elementary school district discriminate among applicants for teaching positions, and checks if the selection policies of the officers are likely to result in the hiring of teachers who perform well in the classroom. (DM)

The research reported in this paper was conducted to assess the effect, if any, of school desegregation, as it occurred in 1966 in Riverside, California, on the speech habits and abilities of the children involved, and to assess the implication of these effects in relation to other psychological factors. Frequency count methods and California…

Four years after the inception of a school desegregation busing program, the average reading achievement test scores of the bused pupils showed the same trends as those among the receiving pupils and pupils at unaffected schools. Tests scores among all kindergarten pupils showed an upward trend, as well as scores in the first, second, and third…

This is a report on the three-year statewide study of school library facilities, collections, and services maintained by school districts and those maintained by county superintendents of schools, counties, or cities and made available to schools on a contractual basis. Data for the study were collected on questionnaires sent to every elementary,…

The characteristics of pupils receiving service in speech and hearing programs are presented in detail utilizing a newly developed standard case record. The evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the case record and the identification of areas in which school clinicians have difficulty obtaining information have been incorporated into the…