Reduction in force (RIF) policies in community colleges are analyzed. The analysis focuses on the following topics: Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure (Gillis, 1971); RIF and Merit; Number of Colleges Involved in RIF; Strategies for Obviating RIF; Need for Carefully Prepared Policies and Procedures; RIF Policies; Faculty Participation;…

Service delivery to handicapped pupils is discussed in regard to the relationship between the California Master Plan for Special Education (see EC 062 915) and the Bureau of Pupil Personnel's Plan for Improvement of Guidance Services. The goals, benefits and limitations of both plans are described; and each plan is examined and compared in terms…

In July, 1974, questionnaires were mailed to 90 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries, to determine their collection development methods: the degree of structure and formalization of the process, the role of collection development offices or committees, participation in certain decisions, the form and use of policies,…

This paper examines the potential impact of parent involvement in the formal education of their children and suggests ways that teacher education can be restructured to prepare teachers to work with parents. This paper attempts to answer five questions: (1) Why should parents be involved in the formal education of their children? (2) Why should…

The Mid-Career Teacher Education Study (MTES), funded by the New York State Department of Education to find ways of alleviating the teacher shortage, has developed an elementary teacher education program called Mid-Career Training for Partnership Teaching (MTPT), which recruits college educated housewives who want to help children participate in…

This collection of nine papers by six different authors is directed toward developing a concept of the principalship. Topics analyzed include general functions of the principal, the organization in which he works, formulation of objectives, and the relationship of the principal to his staff, students, superintendent, and school board. (LLR)

The results of a June 1969 Gallup Poll indicated that 71 percent of the adults questioned favored sex education in the schools. However, public schools now are faced with intensive efforts by extremist groups to discredit family life and sex education programs. Charges aimed at eliminating these programs are seriously affecting many localities.…

A new student climate is desperately needed in our schools. From impressions gained from nationwide interviews, the vast majority of students are anxious for solutions to the problems of student climate, and they represent a tremendous resource, to date largely untapped. The following suggestions are made on the recognition that students have a…

The study examined the compliance of programs funded under Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 with Congressional intent, and explored the nature of the relationships between the measures of compliance and selected organizational characteristics of participating colleges and universities. Eighty-two programs, funded during the fiscal year…

The author believes that instruction for the development of comprehension and study skills in elementary and secondary schools is frequently accidental and inadequate. To some extent the blame may be placed on teachers and classroom conditions, but it also must be shared by authors of textbooks on reading instruction, by instructors who offer…

This manual is intended to help staff members improve the professional climate of their school by identifying the symptoms, diagnosing some of the reasons behind them, and offering means of improvement. There are two main sections. The first begins with a description of the program, and some concepts and theories about the school as a social…

The first section of this special report defines differentiated staffing and gives the opposing points of view of supporters who believe that it is needed to upgrade the quality of instruction, provide more individualized learning programs, and encourage good teachers to remain in the classroom, and of opponents who regard it as a form of merit…

This study provides present and future elementary principals and interested persons with information about the actual role of the elementary school principal in Georgia. The survey identifies certain personal and professional characteristics of the elementary school principal and the practices under which the principalship operates. Topics…

The bulk of this anthology treats adults as different from adolescents, in learning and in other respects, and the resultant demands which these differences make upon flexible, conscientious teachers of adults. Three essays deal with an overall view of adult education, its challenges, problems, and rewards. Other essays are concerned with the…

The author, Education Director for NAACP, stresses the importance of correcting racial imbalance in the public schools and of improving educational quality in schools attended by black children. School administrators have not provided strong leadership in pressing for school desegregation. They are also criticized for "condoning the myth of…