This book describes two different strategies of organization development consultation and analyzes their application in six elementary schools that were attempting to adopt differentiated staffing and multiunit structure. In two schools, the entire staff received a week or organization development consultation before attempting any structural…

This book is based on the premise that each person, in his organizational and institutional roles, is embraced by a network of policy decisions that influence his behavior. From an examination of the importance of policy studies, the author moves to an exploration of the nature of policy and distinguishes the similarities and differences between…

This study focuses on the school district decision to initiate an innovative program. A natural experiment in the identification of school districts interested in initiating serious innovation is used to study the differences between school districts that were and those that were not considering innovation in one specific decisionmaking period. In…

This bibliography provide a listing of over 3,000 higher education holdings in Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Part 1, a listing of books, categorizes according to development of higher education, issues in higher education, nontraditional learning, evaluation and accreditation, economic and business aspects,…

This report analyzes the failure of a small rural community college's plan to deliver non-traditional educational services to non-traditional students by reorganizing its administrative structure; it also discusses the successful programs that finally emerged from this failure. The plan involved elevating the dean of community services to a…

This collection of papers briefly describes a curriculum for an early childhood education program based on parent participation and community involvement, and offers guidelines for school volunteers. The early childhood program described calls for: (1) parents and volunteers to be involved in the planning, implementing, modifying and evaluating of…

The key role of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to help local people make rural America a better place to live and work. The Rural Development (RD) Committee structure, conceived in 1969, consists of national, state, regional, and local committees which aid the USDA. During fiscal year 1974, USDA and the State Extension Services…

That American education is in trouble no longer needs to be documented. What is not clear or widely accepted is an understanding of how and why the schools became that way, and what alternatives are available. The readings in this book have been brought together as sources in which to find the foundations of educational alternatives. Alternatives…

Eastern Arizona College has developed a modularized system of instruction for five vocational and vocationally related courses--Introduction to Business, Business Mathematics, English, Drafting, and Electronics. Each course is divided into independent segments of instruction and students have open-entry and exit options. This document reviews the…

This annotated bibliography on research in preschool education was prepared as background material for two 1971 symposia on preschool research aims, methods, and problems. The report provides a sample of findings from work done in Western Europe and the United States since 1968. Topics include programs (comparisons, evaluation, continuity, etc)…

Addressing American Indians and the Indian Health Service (IHS), this report focuses on the process of Indian involvement and self-determination in health, emphasizing improvement of the effectiveness and responsiveness of Indian health services. Data derived from written documents, statistical figures, and personal interviews with over 200 people…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this document presents the findings of the study team from the University of Colorado who spent a month at the Shonto Boarding School in 1969. Additional information was collected during brief visits and during a 1-week stay by the team leader who was at the…

The Association of University Evening Colleges held its 1969 conference in conjunction with the Galaxy Conference on Adult Education. Over 4,000 people representing 21 different organizations interested in adult education attended. Presentations dealt with the areas: learning to change, imperatives for action, the Nixon administration and…

This study focused on present and recommended practices in organizing and administering special counseling programs for mature women. Questionnaire responses were received from 192 university and college administrators. Findings included the following: (1) 63 administrators reported special counseling programs, most of them established within the…

The study is an attempt to assess the effects of the attributes of a firm in which a trainee is initially placed on his subsequent success. While traditional methods used information gathered from the trainee, this paper employs an alternative approach--the collection of follow up data from the personnel records of the hiring companies. Sixteen of…