Describes the use of moveable shelving at the Santa Barbara County Schools' office for solving space shortage problems in instructional film storage. (CMV)

An estimated 10,000 volunteers of all ages and backgrounds perform many kinds of jobs each year in the Dade County (Florida) school system. Recruitment and training of volunteers, organization and operation, and the various programs are described in the article. (MF)

The efficacy of desegregation is questioned. Examples from St. Louis show how desegregation prepares minorities for the underclass. The following proposals are made: (1) assess desegregation's impact; (2) abandon the city-county programs; (3) appoint masters for nonintegrated schools; (4) restructure the city district; and (5) establish a summer…

Briefly reviews metropolitan school desegregation cases in Florida; Richmond, Virginia; Detroit; Kinloch (St. Louis County), Missouri; Louisville; Wilmington; and Indianapolis. (IRT)

Reports on a study which sought to determine the current state of reading instruction in Ohio's public high schools. Provides profiles of the findings for each of the following categories: exempted village, city school districts, and county/local school districts. (MG)

Describes efforts of the Baldrige in Education Center and Quality Leadership Academy in Santa Cruz County, California, to support teacher and administrator efforts to improve student performance in selected schools through the use of continuous-improvement techniques adopted by many American corporations to improve product quality and increase…

Miami Dade County Public Schools serves an international community with the highest poverty rate of any large U.S. city as well as the highest percentage of immigrants calling it "home" of any large city throughout the world. This article examines: (a) how Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the fifth largest school district in…

Suburban parents vie for slots at Washington Gifted and Talented Magnet Elementary School on the edge of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It doesn't seem to matter that it sits on a hill overlooking the largest public housing project in Raleigh, or it draws 30% of its students from the surrounding low-income area. This school and others in Wake…

Five classroom teachers developed this long range plan for achieving educational excellence in the Anne Arundel County Public School System of Maryland during the decade of 1980s. Part I of the report gives an introduction including a list of suppositions, provides a conceptual framework that guided the work of the planning team, and describes the…

THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO TEST THE CONCEPT THAT A STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WHEN WORKING DEMOCRATICALLY WITH COUNTY AND LOCAL UNITS CAN PROVIDE SOCIALLY DESIRABLE GOALS. PROFESSIONALS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND PUPILS FROM TWO COUNTIES WERE GIVEN A BATTERY OF ADJUSTMENT AND VALUES INDEXES, A MEASURE OF…

Because of the increasing number of certified school psychologists being employed to provide direct psychological services to West Virginia's county school systems, a study was conducted to determine what kinds of services are needed in order to help those children experiencing academic and/or adjustment difficulties in the classroom. Between…

A report of a county committee to investigate programs and problems related to learning disabilities reviews areas which were examined. Consideration is given to the work of the committee and its division into subcommittees, to the dilemma of defining learning disabilities, and to solutions for dealing with handicapped children, including special…

Developed by two county school systems in a semirural area to serve pregnant girls, the program provided small class instruction and individual tutoring in one county and telephonic teaching in the other. Staff included academic, remedial, and business teachers and medical, psychological, and social personnel; a director coordinated the various…

Outlines pilot financial management scheme developed by the County Council in Cambridgeshire (England). The scheme has been accepted and has produced significant results. (MD)

To evaluate the adequacy and efficiency of preschool education, the RAND Corporation has undertaken the California Preschool Study to improve understanding of achievement gaps in the early elementary grades, the adequacy of preschool education currently given, and what efficiencies or additional resources might be brought to bear in early care and…