This bibliography is based on the author's thinking and experience with implementing the unified education concepts through the team-taught Unified Studies Program at Boston State College, 1972-75. The purposes of the bibliography are to test a new approach to user-oriented bibliographical notes, provide information about how to find information…

This paper describes research in progress to define and measure the operational manifestations of five sociological functions of schooling proposed by William Spady: selection, custody/control, instruction, socialization, and evaluation/certification. The paper briefly presents the theoretical framework, describes the elaboration of this theory…

A questionnaire was used to help define student discipline, categorize and rank the concerns of different groups regarding student discipline, and provide examples of issues. The questionnaire asked citizens, parents, students, teachers, counselors, and principals to list the most important, second most important, and third most important problems…

A pilot minicourse program was launched for elementary school children aged 8 to 13 years based on the assumption that children learn best when they can practice what they are being taught, and will show an increased interest in school work when they are given a role in the decision-making process. Students went through a "college style"…

This report presents data on the number of students affected by academic probation or dismissal during 1967-68 at California's institutions of higher education. Section A, the introduction, defines academic probation and academic dismissal. Section B discusses the academic probation and dismissal policies of the various campuses of the University…

This report presents complaints and supporting legal memoranda from recent student rights cases. The complaints cover recurrent constitutional arguments that are advanced in most cases. The supporting documents offer a complete compendium of applicable current decisions. The conception of student rights reflected herein is traditional,…

This report contains proposed regulations of student conduct constituting serious misbehavior, and includes written procedures for handling regulation violations. The code is divided into three parts: (1) eight rules that prohibit student conduct qualifying as a major offense and that stipulate long term suspension or expulsion for violation of…

This pamphlet contains all the statements of the Committee of Fifteen submitted to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and concurrently circulated within the Harvard community. The reports constitute a record of the Committee's work to June 9th under its 3 charges from the Faculty: to investigate the causes of the April crisis; to assume full…

The fable of the "Donkey and the Stick" is used as an analogy to present day industrial relations problems. The managerial approach of autocratic leadership has long since outlived its usefulness; rewards based along Maslow's hierarchy of needs should be used for employee motivation. The point is made from the fable that employees can't be…

A survey was conducted of 300 parents of students in each of 18 North York Senior High Schools to determine their attitudes toward the schools which their offspring attended. Questionnaires containing 10 statements to be agreed or disagreed with were mailed to these parents,who were selected at random from listing of parents of students. The…

Nine papers concerning various aspects of diagnostic and resource teaching deal with the impact of crisis-resource teaching on the Falls Church, Virginia public schools, the role and requirements of the diagnostic teacher, the effectiveness of resource rooms for children with specific learning disabilities, basic problems in diagnosis, an overview…

The author, one of a number of consultants from secondary schools and colleges participating in a session concerning the possible restructuring of the College Entrance Examination Board's American History and Social Studies Achievement Test, addresses himself to the general subject of the changing relationship in the secondary schools between…

This address deals with the phenomenon of modern technology in the context of: (1) its potential to alter society, (2) its implications as a discipline base for education, (3) specific curriculum developments necessary with technology as a conceptual frame of reference, (4) its behavioral characteristics in an "environmental continuum" and an…

The short manual designed for teachers of the handicapped focuses on management of individual behavior in the classroom and briefly explains principles of behavior change. Five basic steps in management are explained to be specification of problem behavior, counting the occurrence of the problem behavior, changing the problem behavior by…

This publication provides data on day-program full-time faculty teaching loads in the Los Angeles community colleges for the fall semesters 1972 through 1975, compared to total statewide averages, and statewide small college and large college averages, by instructional discipline. Faculty load is computed by dividing weekly student contact hours…