This policy brief summarizes and critiques the findings of the US Department of Education's Section 5005 Report on Rural Education. In September of 2018, the Department of Education released the "Section 5005 Report on Rural Education: Final Report." The report was written in response to a provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act of…

On Dec. 10, 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (P.L. 114-95) became law. ESSA primarily reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), but includes other provisions as well. Among these, Section 5005 requires the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) to "review the organization, structure, and process…

The Palomar Community College District has proposed to establish a new educational center in the northern region of the District. The California Postsecondary Education Commission recommends approval of the proposed center. The information in the Palomar Community College District Needs Study satisfies all Commission criteria for establishing a…

A procedure is given for determining various concerns for the identification of priority needs or important problems. Chapters deal with procedures for harvesting educational concerns, illustrations of the systematic harvesting of concerns, concerns classification and analysis, and conducting the need assessment. A diagram of the procedure for…

Bracketing is defined as a procedure whereby individual decisionmaking team members sharpen their perceptions of organizational need prior to administrative action. Like the Delphi technique, the procedure eliminates major detriments of group activity planning and includes sequential interrogations and feedback procedures. Unlike the Delphi…

Of concern here are traditionalist educational policies encapsulated in contemporary Development Plans of two Melanesian island-nations, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and one Polynesian island-nation, Tonga. Such policies ignore new knowledge, new aspirations, new attitudes to school and are inappropriate for current educational needs.…

In the nine years following the passage of the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA), several models have been developed to attempt to remedy the deficiencies in existing educational evaluation and decision theory noted by Stufflebeam and co-workers. Compilations of evaluation models have been undertaken and listings exist of models available…

This bibliography, the 6th in a series of reports dealing with accountability, is designed to provide those interested in assessment and accountability with a ready reference for identifying articles relevant to their individual needs. The citations are listed under a general section, the ERIC files section, and the CAP section. Entries within…

As one part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III, a model of a guidance program that would integrate guidance efforts in the development of a long-range master plan of education for an urban school system is constructed and used as a standard of comparison for the present model in use at the Fresno City Unified School District. In the…

A needs assessment is a procedure or process that identifies the perceived or expressed needs of a school district. The process involves the use of various measurements and activities to obtain the data needed to define the gap between "what is" and "what should be." This handbook reviews four such processes or models for…

This paper presents a brief description of a basic model for planning, monitoring, and evaluating educational programs using managerial concepts. The model involves the use of five steps as follows: (1) identification of a need; (2) a statement of desired outcomes (objectives); (3) the development of a program, including processes and resources;…

In an attempt to reduce the impact of a child's disabilities the Master Plan was developed in order to equalize opportunities for all children in need of special education services. (Author/RK)

This publication includes the proceedings of the December 1974 long-range academic planning workshop for the 1974-75 Cooperative Academic Planning (CAP) consortium, the first in a series on curriculum change for this new consortium. This workshop represents a new thrust for the CAP program in terms of establishing coordinating and comprehensive…

There are many resources available for supporting Title I or school-improvement processes, but many of them present a disjointed picture of the complicated process. This guidebook was developed to provide a coherent framework for planning educational improvement and can be used to support any school or district staff working to improve an…