Concludes a three-part article describing the reading programs of junior colleges in Florida, Including Indian River, Manatee, and Dade. (RW)

Educational statistics for all states as of 1970 are given. (CK)

The Illinois State Board of Education provides a summary of its recommendations for improved practices in the areas of preparation, selection, performance, and staff development of educational personnel. (FL)

The statewide (Connecticut) survey of 365 teachers of mentally retarded (MR) and nonretarded handicapped (non-MR) students indicated such results as that MR teachers reported stress source levels comparable to or less than levels of non-MR teachers, but reported stress manifestation levels comparable to or greater than those of non-MR teachers.…

Administration of the Student Achievement Diagnostic Questionnaire for Administrators to 1,278 Georgia teachers verified the instrument's utility for measuring several factors affecting teacher motivation, including teachers' attitudes toward principals, toward the utility of improving performance, and toward the nature of and the possibility of…

A study to identify curriculum concepts that one faculty group thought basic and relevant to pharmacy practice, and to measure the perceived level of understanding and relevance/importance of these concepts in a sample of Kentucky pharmacists is discussed. (Author/MLW)

This extract from the author's doctoral thesis reports on a survey of Minnesota school board chairpersons, superintendents, and school attorneys on the role of the school district attorney. The results showed that attorneys perceived themselves as more responsible and involved in decision-making than did the administrators. (Author/RW)

Reports on a survey conducted by the Journalism Education Association to determine how states regulate the behavior of student journalists, the responses to which suggest the development of guidelines should be made at a local level. (HOD)

A state survey of all two-year colleges in New York focused on the assessment of academic advising in order to facilitate recommendations for institutional policymaking. Questions were asked about preservice and inservice training of advisers, and the evaluation of advisers and the advising process. (Author/MLW)

Presents a model relating the adequacy of an organization's problem-solving to its resources and to the appropriateness of its structures. Describes a test of the model, on 25 public elementary and secondary schools in southeastern Michigan, which found that different organizational structures use money differently and produce different outputs.…

A survey of 116 central office administrators in over 50 public and private school systems in western Pennsylvania examined the administrators' use of test data and other information on organizational performance. Respondents' preferences for nontest data lead the authors to suggest a new model of administrators' usage of performance information.…

Reported are results from two statewide surveys and additional interviews of teachers at all grade levels in elementary schools in New Hampshire. Data regarding time spent, methods, constraints, approaches, and services needed from colleges and universities indicate a shift away from science as a major part of the curriculum. (CS)