This paper describes the objectives and organization of the Middle Management Center (MMC), a university-based interdisciplinary resource team dedicated to improving school management practices through involvement with school principals. The author, who is also director of the MMC, first discusses the place of principals in school administration…

The manual provides information on procedures--the videotape recording procedure (VTR), the mobile resource center (MRC), and the child services specialist (CSS)--developed and used in the Cooperstown (New York) Head Start Program, a 3-year experimental project for developing ways to deliver services to rural area preschool children with special…

Speeches and minutes of meetings and seminars are presented. Subjects include: Learning resource centers, general administration, business affairs, instruction, student personnel services, vocational and technical education, continuing education, certification, faculty accountability through self-appraisal, experimental concepts in education,…

The Teaching Methods and Materials Centre of the University of Papua and New Guinea had four main objectives for 1973: (1) the collection of teaching and learning materials, (2) teacher and inservice education, (3) provision of information services for students and faculty at the university, and (4) research and curriculum development. Details are…

The catalog primarily lists instructional materials, including audiovisual and manipulative materials, for use with handicapped children. Entries, which are arranged by curriculum or skill area, specify grade level and nature of the material. Also listed are professional books and resources, serials, free periodicals, professional audiovisual…

This final report presents the chronology of planning and operating a Title III grant. The following activities in the Abington School District, Abington, Pennsylvania, were financed in part by the Title III grant: (1) inservice training--teachers learned new approaches and techniques for individualizing instruction involving the use of different…

The proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf held at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education (March 16-18, 1970) consist of papers related to communicative television for the deaf student. Topics covered include mediated interaction with individual television…

Instructional materials which can be utilized for remediational use for the subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities are listed. Prepared by the Rocky Mountain Special Education Instructional Materials Center (RMSEIMC), the list represents appropriate materials available from that center. Commercial materials suitable for…

Described are five elementary level resource room models which were developed in a 1-week Michigan summer institute and followup sessions to serve special education students in regular classes. Each of the models is explained in terms of an introduction, description of the resource room setting and components, population identification, program…

At Marshfield Senior High School, over one-fourth of the students were note profiting from the required social studies course, as evidenced by grades and attendance. As a result, a study was made to improve social study learning experiences in order to conform to eight assumptions about student needs, such as students need activity learning;…

This second report by the Council of the International Bureau of Education covers the period since the close of the sixteenth session of the General Conference to 31 July 1972. It deals with the activities of the Council itself, the steps taken to develop the programme of the International Bureau of Education during the period under review, and…

Written in compliance with Federal requirements, this Idaho State Evaluation Report describes the progress of Idaho's migrant educational activities implemented under Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended in 1966 under Public Law 89-750. The report is a summary of the 28 local district project evaluations. Enrollee…

This paper describes Project Alma, a cooperative effort between Georgia Southern College and Bacon County Schools that resulted in a field-based graduate teacher training program with a mandate to bring about new programs, approaches, and system renewal through teacher education. Project objectives are to: (a) design a field-based master's degree…

Recognizing the lack of any adequate media resources in Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools, this Department of the Interior report recommends the mandatory placement of an educational media specialist in all areas where there are such schools. The media program, which would use new funds, could be established by fiscal 1975. Further…

This report describes and evaluates the Supplementary Educational Museum and Resource Center, ESEA Title III pilot project which began in 1967 and ended in 1971 for a four-county area. Major objectives of the program were to integrate field trips to museums and historic sites in social studies courses; to develop primary source materials; and to…