The purpose of this paper is to suggest several alternative patterns of organizing Alberta's present post-secondary educational system. This purpose is achieved by: (1) examining the generally accepted goals of higher education; (2) advancing several arguments for and against government intervention; (3) an analysis of several plans now in…

Discusses a cooperative planning venture undertaken by the 40 school districts of the Buffalo, New York, metropolitan area. (Author)

Planning traditionally employs a rational decision model that leaves the planner poorly equipped to deal with constraints of organizational process and governmental politics. To be more effective, the planner must now begin in depth to analyze the procedures related to organizational processes and political bargaining. (Author)

This paper was prepared in response to a need for a rational basis upon which to analyse and appraise existing and proposed organizational structures for advanced education in Alberta, Canada. The Rationale for Organization developed in Chapter 1 is based on a humanistic philosophy that views man as free and capable of infinite perfectability…

As the second of a three-part comparative study on the administration of audiovisual services in advanced and developing countries, this UNESCO funded report describes the common characteristics of the educational systems of the socialist countries and their educational media supply systems, including the organization, administration, and…

This paper suggests that a first, important, step toward a broadening of the skills of the educational planner is a clear conceptualization of some implications that accompany differing styles of decision-making. It has been suggested that planning traditionally employs a rational decision model that leaves the planner poorly equipped to deal with…

There have been many persisting issues and problems in educational planning in the Korean scene. The major ones can be identified as involving (1) approaches, (2) organization, (3) the process, (4) priorities, and (5) the position of private schools and their financial support. (Author)

The principles of structure and procedure for innovative organizations articulated by both postbureaucratic essayists and the organization theorists of innovation are identified. The conditions necessary to generate innovation--small, collegial, problem-solving groups; autonomy of line professionals; separation of planning from the process of…

During the past several years a number of studies and subsequent reports have been issued which addressed specific needs in the area of management for schools in the District of Columbia. All of the reports cited here--the Passow, Nelsen Committee, Price-Waterhouse, and Management Review Reports--identified areas of deficiency in the managerial…

Originally written to assist communities in Pennsylvania in the design and implementation of comprehensive child development day care programs to meet Federal Inter-Agency guidelines, this manual is geared to the specific needs of the administrator and is equally valuable for any program, large or small, public or private. Section I is on the…

Current school district organization fails to provide the environment necessary to develop and use analytical techniques in educational planning. Current organization often acts as a barrier to the acceptance of the results of analysis. A program-oriented management system enhances the environment for systems analysis and promotes both the…

This paper envisions one possible future relationship between the Agricultural Education Division of the American Vocational Association and its Agricultural Education Advisory Council. The author imagines that the year is 1985 and describes some of the imaginary changes that have occurred in the interim. These changes involve the establishment of…

Presents an approach to metropolitan-wide educational organization alternative to those of consolidation of multiple school districts into single county administrative units and voluntary interdistrict cooperative projects, in order to accomplish the edning of the inequalities of the present educational structure. (JM)

Annual report of the National Education Association (NEA), issued by the NEA Board of Directors. Adapted from a longer report distributed to delegates at the NEA Philadelphia convention in July 1969.

As the first of a three-part comparative study of the administration of audiovisual services in advanced and developing countries, this UNESCO-funded report contains extensive information on the structure, organization, functions and operation of the national audiovisual centers serving elementary education in the Western European countries. An…