Purposes of these hearings--held Sept. 1-3, 1971, in Washington, D.C.--were (1) to document the disparities between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan schools, (2) to present a picture of what rural education is like at the grass-roots level, and (3) to review some of the programs which have been designed to improve nonurban education. Witnesses…

This annotated, worldwide listing of 42 individuals and organizations represents an initial attempt to define ongoing futures documentation activity in its broadest sense. Due to the limited resources available, the list is incomplete, and descriptions of projects sketchy. As additions and changes appear in quantity, notices will be published in…

This directory of materials gives the location, nature, and quantity of the holdings of over 2100 private and public organizations, institutes, and libraries in the United States which collect information on Afro-Americans. Information on the 5300 collections listed was gathered through the use of a questionnaire circulated in 1968-69. Most of the…

This document (1) describes current PPBS techniques and their limitations for planning and budgeting in public higher education; (2) presents suggestions for PPBS applications in higher education systems, with emphases on the problems of identifying objectives, evaluating effectiveness, and structuring the program budget; and (3) analyzes the…

A model program of pupil services for Chicago's inner-city high schools is proposed. It is based on the house plan of school organization, wherein a large comprehensive high school is divided into small sub-divisions called houses. The deficiencies and unmet goals of Chicago's inner-city high schools (e.g., low attendance, high dropout rate) are…

This is the report of a 1970 followup (to a similar one conducted in 1968) study, the purposes of which were to: (1) determine whether or how the attitudes of Kansas City respondents resembled or differed from attitudes of black youth in other parts of the United States, and (2) determine whether or how much change had occurred in the attitudes of…

Reputational and pluralistic methods of community analysis differ; their findings, conclusions, and philosophies are frequently at variance. Reputationalists find an economically dominated power elite. They picture a community's power and influence structure as pyramidal -- the power elite forming a monolithic power pyramid. Thus, according to…

A day care center operated by American Child Centers, Inc. of Nashville, Tennessee, a private nonfranchise corporation, is described. Program emphasis is placed on the emotional, social and physical development of the child, as opposed to custodial care, or services to parents or the community. Careful cost-accounting methods are used to make the…

The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of black youth who have a favorable orientation toward the Black Panthers with those of black youth who appear to be oriented toward the N.A.A.C.P. Information involving orientations toward organizations concerned with the lives of black Americans was collected as part of a larger study on the…

This document reports on an evaluative study of New York City's community education centers. Initiated in 1968, the Community Education Centers (CEC) Program is designed to coordinate and concentrate educational services for disadvantaged persons with low educational achievement and restricted social mobility. By involving citizens in…

This document is the second in a series designed to describe agricultural education projects and practices which have been successful in promoting agricultural change and improvement in areas of the world where subsistance agriculture predominates. The projects are included here because of their emphasis on development of human resources and…

This report describes school and departmental changes that supported newly stated goals in a junior high school that departed radically from its traditional program. New goals for this particular school focused on the individual, and program agents were charged with helping each student (1) become his own agent, (2) become personally involved in…

To determine whether or not selected educational experiences of students from certain vocational agriculture departments tended to be significantly related to later enrollment in the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University, data were obtained from admission records, the state supervisor of vocational agriculture, a teachers' association…

The linear programing approach to position-salary evaluation of school district personnel allows the district to calculate a system of relative weights that establish the relationship of one position to another in quantitative terms. The model provides an internally consistent, effective assessment of an individual's relative worth to the school…

This book surveys the philosophy, methodology, and mechanics of free schools, along with presenting detailed suggestions on how a free school might be organized and administered. The book primarily discusses lower schools but does provide a chapter of information about free schools at the high school level. The book has an artistic format with…