This monograph provides a systematic approach to the problem of planning educational facilities. It first presents a conceptual framework for a general facilities planning and management system called Facilities Resource Allocation Management Evaluation System (FRAMES). The main components of FRAMES are identified as: (1) needs assessment, (2)…

An outline for the total scheme of evaluation in a school district is presented for administrators. Evaluation of programs, teachers, students, and materials used in classrooms is discussed with respect to identification, data collection, and decision-making. This booklet begins with a summary and a chart that is intended to help an administrator…

Consumer education and the differentiation between wants and needs is the focus of the third unit of the second grade Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271). Activities center around five topics -- sources of income, how we know what to buy, how we develop wants, how we decide what to buy, and how we get more for less.…

The second unit of the second grade level of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271) continues to build upon the economic principles introduced in grade one. Specifically, the focus is on the procurement of essential and non-essential clothing. The learning activities help students to learn the sources of fabrics,…

Funded in 1971 under Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the teacher exchange program to improve reading instruction was designed as a 3 year project. The thrust of the program ranged from creating awareness of and interest in good teaching practices to helping instructors implement these practices in their own classrooms.…

Objectives of the fourth unit of the first grade section of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271) are to help the student develop an understanding of his needs and his economic environment. The many learning activities, focus on the economic system -- consumers, money, exchange of goods, use of resources,…

As part of the second grade curriculum of introductory economics, this unit of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (See SO 008 271) explores housing and communities. The unit is an active study in which children explore and probe into community conditions. They experiment with methods of improving their own environment and…

This collection of articles looks at projects which have attempted to deal with change in the school organization. Some projects have succeeded in defining, shaping, and refining what happens in the school; others, less successful or unworkable, have been rejected. In either case, the administrator and his entire organization have become more…