The Symposium on School Leadership was held in March 1987 in Sacramento, California, for the purpose of investigating how the preparation of school leaders can be enhanced and how to bring about collegiality between administrators and teachers. The proceedings are summarized. (MT)

The goal of the seminar reported in this document was to consider the site leadership and management issue as it relates to professionals' changing roles and influences educational equity and excellence. The seminar attempted to bring sensitive reform movement issues back to those most affected by their implications. An important seminar element…

This document records the proceedings of a conference on the effects of collective bargaining on school administrative leadership. The conference brought together participants from two areas of research that usually operate independently--research on collective bargaining and research on school administrative leadership. The conference was divided…

Views of faculty members and staff at the University of Georgia concerning the responsibilities and qualifications of the next college president are presented in 1986 panel papers. Panels represented various disciplines as well as the university's public service, research, and student affairs offices. Panel paper titles and authors are as follows:…

Texts of keynote addresses and abstracts of the presentations at the 1983 National Conference on Teaching Excellence are provided in this proceedings. Introductory material, by Suanne Roueche, indicates that the main purpose of the conference was to showcase master teachers and their teaching innovations and details conference activities. Next, H.…

Presentations of both the plenary sessions and the business meeting are included in the proceedings. Topics covered include: reassessment of the function of graduate education; dimensions of graduate study; faculty and student power and roles in decision-making; interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and polydisciplinary programs; and grading. (LBH)

We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 26 to 28 of April. Our efforts and active engagement can now be rewarded with these three days of exciting new developments about what we are passionate about: Psychology and its connections. We take pride…

A summary of the Select Seminar II for the development of innovative practically implemented teacher evaluation practices is provided in this report. Two central concerns are linking teacher evaluation to professional growth, and establishing collegial relationships. Discussion topics include: the relationship between teacher evaluation and…

The aims of this symposium are to examine and discuss critically the findings of a major survey of practices in instructional supervision. Data from over 1,000 teachers and their supervisors in central Pennsylvania were compiled, and findings are reported in four sections. The first section is an introduction focusing on the theoretical…

This book summarizes the findings of a research workshop organized by the International Institute for Educational Planning on ethics and corruption in education. It makes a case for addressing the issue of corruption in education based on the experiences of the various participants of the workshop, representatives of various countries and…

This paper presents the keynote speech from a symposium on finance and management in higher education. Following introductions, the speaker, an executive from the business community who also serves on several university governing boards, asserted that, like businesses, institutions of higher education face a nearly continual need to respond to…

The proceedings of a conference on collective bargaining sponsored by the Center for Educational Policy and Management at the University of Oregon are summarized by this publication. The conference, "The Effects of Collective Bargaining on School Administrative Leadership," explored a multiplicity of approaches to collective bargaining and its…

An introduction, keynote address, and 12 selected papers present the conference's proceedings. Also provided are summaries of the seven other conference papers and of the final plenary session, along with a list of conference participants. The keynote address questions whether quality control is possible in education. It notes that the concept of…

Four papers are included in this document that examines roles of participants in high school change. Each paper draws on data gathered from three years of a three-phase study of change processes in 30 high schools in Texas, Oregon, Maryland, Indiana, New York, and Florida. Four major questions provide research focus: the types, sources, and…

This bulletin offers highlights on two separate meetings of the National Council of Primary Education. This document contains abstracts of papers and reports read at the second annual meeting at Kansas City, Missouri held on February 27, 1917 as well as the council's updates at the third annual meeting at Atlantic City, New Jersey held on February…