The Greece Central School District (NY) provides students with comprehensive vocational education experiences, ranging from orientation for all junior high students to more specialized electives at the senior high level. Students can thus test their interests and abilities against the reality of the world of work. (SK)

In 1976, the Shasta County Schools management staff devised a system to identify the factors of responsibility in management positions and to assign position titles and salaries on this basis. Factors were identified in the areas of program management, budget, and personnel supervision and weighted to rank staff positions. (SJL)

Emerging research from across the nation demonstrates that school working conditions--time, teacher empowerment, school leadership, professional development, and facilities and resources--are critical to increasing student achievement and retaining teachers. The existing national data regarding working conditions impact on student achievement and…

Community colleges are often criticized for the low numbers of students who ostensibly appear successful. This article takes a unique look at the pathways many community college students take and redefines success as transition. Using the full population of the Los Angeles Community College District, this article examines the intra-institutional…

A county school system collects data about the career plans and counseling needs of students, projects manpower needs in the area by occupation and industry, and links information about existing vocational education programs with data about future manpower needs, as a model integrated manpower information system. (Author/AJ)

This paper outlines an attempt to include analysis of political, economic, and social considerations within a study of the feasibility of a school district merger in Guilford County, North Carolina. The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which discusses major conditions in each of three school districts in the county. Two of these…

This report describes a standardized testing service for multiple school districts. The testing center of the Wabash Valley Supplementary Educational Center was established through Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The center offers four services to an eight county area: testing materials, scoring, materials development,…

During the school year 1974-75, a project to place exiting students in an occupational or postsecondary program was conducted by the Tuscaloosa County School System. The project was designed to assist graduating seniors of four high schools and those exiting prior to graduation. In meeting the project goal the following activities were carried…

A report and recommendations are presented concerned with the distribution of public school facilities in Moore County, North Carolina and the possible methods of district organization for the most efficient operation of such facilities. The nature of the educational services of the school systems is examined; projections of school enrollments…

This report is a summary of the results of a questionnaire survey of locally developed health education materials. This guide has been prepared to assist school districts in the planning and initiation or expansion of local health programs. It reports on the current status of locally developed programs in the county. Hopefully, this information…

In 1972, the Nottinghamshire Education Committee surveyed all primary schools to identify those in areas of multiple social and educational disadvantage. A program, including increased funding, parent education, and in-service, was developed for these schools, to meet the Plowden Report's goal of "positive discrimination" for the…

The article describes a master plan for vocational programs for special needs students in Palm Beach County, Florida, developed by Donna Batelaan, a physically handicapped liaison counselor for the school board. Based on a survey of school and community personnel, an inservice workshop, and technical advisory units for various disabilities, the…

Involving teachers in program planning and offering new incentives for inservice training, the Osceola Teacher Education Center is a cooperative venture of Osceola County (Florida) and Florida Technological University. (JT)

Educational changes in the new town of Columbia, Maryland, benefit all the schools in Howard County. A series of school community dialogues guide the future of the schools. (Author/MLF)

Multiple regression analysis of data from West Virginia school districts revealed that 41 percent of interdistrict differences in higher education enrollment rates was explained by percentage of disadvantaged students, percentage of students in college preparatory curriculum (strongly related to income and rurality), and student/teacher ratio.…