Describes Tayari, an adoption service organized by black personnel with special procedures designed to reach black clientele. Tayari is a division of the San Diego County Department of Public Welfare. (BRT)

A Rand Corporation study finds that an innovation is likely to fail if a school is in it for the money; however, if a school identifies a genuine problem and tries to solve it, the innovation is likely to succeed. (Author/IRT)

This report focuses attention on the quantity and timeliness of adoptions in the state. The report begins with an overview of current adoption practices and procedures in Maryland. A series of 54 recommendations follows. The recommendations are based on the following issues: (1) legal barriers to adoption; (2) barriers in local departments of…

Frequently curriculum implementation procedures consist of little more than teachers receiving descriptions of subject matter, definitions of new or technical terminology, and/or outlines detailing the surface steps of an instructional process. This case study analysis of how two high school teachers adapted some new curriculum features into their…

As one means of serving their clients, Ginn and Co. made a commitment in the early 1980's to provide inservice workshops for teachers that more closely related to customer needs. The vehicle for assessing these needs and ultimately designing appropriate inservice activities is Stages of Concern about the Innovation (SoC), one of the diagnostic…

Previous research on performance evaluation systems has failed to take into account user acceptance. Employee acceptance of a behaviorally-based performance appraisal system was assessed in a field experiment contrasting user preference for Behavioral Expectations Scales (BES) versus Behavioral Observation Scales (BOS). Non-union sales associates…

The author emphasizes the need for further developing Applied Behavioral Science and applying it to problems in education. (HMD)

Describes the way in which six major private organizations in South Carolina were instrumental in setting up three major welfare programs and in establishing a new state office of child advocacy. (GO)

Described here is a research project being undertaken to address two points: the relationship of the fidelity of program replication to program outcomes at user sites; and the extent to which fidelity can occur in programs with more than a few replicates. The findings will have bearing on the usefulness of the Research, Development, and Diffusion…

The provisions of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-272 of the 96th Congress) are delineated in this legislative bulletin. The primary purposes of the Act are (1) to establish a program of adoption assistance; (2) to strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and (3) to…

The relationship between organizational structure and the rate of adoption of school reorganization was investigated in this study. Subjects included 139 Iowa school districts that were implementing the 1953 Iowa School Reorganization Law. This law mandated the consolidation of districts into larger community school districts. Variables concerning…

Decentralized school budgeting or school-based budgeting is relatively new to Canada. It means that school boards or central office administrators delegate to principals authority to make some budget decisions. High expectations for effects of the practice include greater efficiency in the allocation of resources, increased flexibility in the…

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Special Education Law (Chapter 766) was used as a model for P.L. 94-142, the federal law mandating education for all handicapped students. This draft reports preliminary findings of a study concerning compliance with and implementation efforts toward the Massachusetts law, with an eye toward implications for the…

Teacher reaction to the institution of a planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS) was surveyed through a structured but open-ended interview in two school districts. Results showed that the mere introduction of new bureaucratic documents for completion by teachers generated only mild negative reaction and no real sense that teacher autonomy…

A methodology is presented for planning and managing the spread of educational innovations. The first portion of the guide develops a theoretical framework for diffusion which summarizes and capitalizes on the latest marketing and on the latest marketing and diffusion research findings. Major stages in the diffusion paradigm discussed include…