Outlining brain processing preference styles (dominant left, dominant right, or integrated), the author presents the assets and liabilities of the styles and points out the implications for management. (MD)

Builds on an earlier study considering changes in the use of noninstructional staff in maintained (British) primary and secondary schools. Focuses on the introduction of staffing innovations (how they originated, how they were implemented, their perceived advantages and difficulties, and their estimated cost-effectiveness) in a new kind of…

Eight field-tested staffing strategies for community-based programs for severely handicapped students are described. Advantages and disadvantages are summarized, and a decision-making process for selecting strategies is discussed. Among recommendations are the need to maximize coordination between school and nonschool instruction and to collect…

To identify the changes associated with the school turnaround process, this article reviewed 15 case studies of elementary school turnaround initiatives that sustained improvements for at least two years. Changes were clustered into eight categories: leadership, school policy, programs, organizational processes, staffing, classroom practices,…

This report from the Comptroller General to the United States Congress finds Head Start to be an effective program whose fund distribution formula needs revision and whose management controls need improvement. Head Start's funding for enrollment and operating costs increased significantly between 1977-81. However, these funding increases were not…

An evaluation is reported of the elementary and secondary program in French as a second language in a Quebec school district. The objectives of the evaluative study were to learn the goals and philosophy underlying the existing programs, examine the teaching materials used at each level, have consultants evaluate the teaching situation, survey the…

This study documents the ways in which Chapter 1 services are delivered across the nation at the local school district level. Data were collected by mail and telephone surveys of district and Chapter 1 administrators in 2,200 nationally representative school districts. The following topics are discussed: (1) profile of Chapter 1 districts; (2)…