In this paper, we compare the bilingual/language education policies of Arizona and Washington to show that state-level language policy plays a critical role in shaping the appropriation of federal language policy [No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Title III] and how different state-level language policies impact the district level of policy…

Following a nationwide trend, reading scores at Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School in suburban Chicago began dropping with the entrance of the new millennium. However, through its newly created Reading Department, Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School is providing comprehensive, direct reading instruction throughout grade and skill…

This article reports on the results of a survey examining the perceptions of university faculty regarding the importance of graduate programs preparing reading specialists for a leadership role. The results of the survey indicate that slightly more that half of the programs require a leadership course and less than half of the reading specialist…

This report explains the role of reading/language arts resource specialists, contains tips for setting up a resource specialist program, and presents data--and discussions of this data--collected in a field testing of a staff development project conducted by the Florida Right to Read effort during the 1973-74 school year. The latter half of the…

Interviews of consultants participating in a field experience with teachers showed plan-tactic-elicitors verbalized by consultants had a positive effect on the incidence of resources. Other types of consultant elicitors had a negative impact on resource incidence when compared to the incidence of other types of consultee responses. (Author)

The purpose of this case study is to describe the challenges one coach faced during the initial implementation of a coaching initiative involving 33 teachers in an urban, high-poverty elementary school. Reading coaches are increasingly expected to play a key role in the professional development efforts to improve reading instruction in order to…

This paper describes and analyzes different types of inservice training available for early childhood education programs to help directors select the inservice training best suited to their programs. It is suggested that early childhood education programs are at one of three levels of development: initial adjustment stage, operational stage, and…

Community mental health centers have been faced with mandates to introduce new programs or improve old ones often without the necessary information or expertise to implement such changes. Community mental health centers (N=39) were studied to identify the nature and extent of information use and factors related to information use. Experts visited…

A consultant is often an effective source of assistance for an agency undergoing change. Community mental health centers (N=80) randomly assigned to treatment and control groups were studied to determine the impact of problem-oriented consultation on problem solution, and the characteristics of both consultant and consultee which are critical in…

This brief report of remarks of a three-day workshop in career education describes the workshop agenda, activities, and projects underway in Florida and gives a list of objectives for grades K-6 through post secondary education. A master plan for career education in Brevard County, with a planning and implementation checklist, is followed by…

Presented are 19 research reports which apply the philosophy of the consulting teacher program at the University of Vermont to provide special education individualized services within regular classrooms for Junior and Senior High School Students with academic and behavioral problems. Included are an overview of the consulting teacher program and a…

Results of a national survey of colleges of optometry concerning the form, scope, and methods of their short-term, long-term, and strategic planning activities are presented and discussed. (MSE)

A survey of 791 college admissions officers investigated the use and perceived effectiveness of 15 marketing techniques: publicity; target marketing; market segmentation; advertising; program development; market positioning; market research; access; marketing plan; pricing; marketing committee; advertising research; consultants; marketing audit;…

This report discusses the third year of a career education project that intended to aid school districts in establishing a collaborative relationship with business, labor, industry, and professional groups within the community and in obtaining permanent local financing of career education programs and to create a cadre of career education…

Presented are 13 papers based on presentations by consultant and resource teachers, local and state administrators, higher education faculty, a specialist in educational change, and a parent at the Council for Exceptional Children's Invisible College Conference on Mainstreaming. Chapters include a listing of key ideas and discussions on the…