Wyoming's Department of Education (WDE?s) Special Programs Unit conducts compliance monitoring for all IDEA procedural requirements on a five-year cycle. The current process began for Wyoming?s school districts in 1999-2000 and will be completed in 2004-05. The special education monitoring process is a comprehensive program review. The process…

This document is an updated version of the Title I Paraprofessionals Non-Regulatory Guidance. It has been reorganized so that all questions addressing similar topics are in the same section. In addition to a number of minor and technical changes, the following questions are new or have been significantly revised: (1) B-15 is revised to highlight…

The demand for efficiency in the schools and for the best possible use of money expended for schools and of the time of the children in school has given rise to a demand for expert supervision by men and women competent to give to all teachers, and especially to young and inexperienced teachers, help in those phases of their work in which they…

Supervision as understood in well-organized city systems has little resemblance to the annual visitation of schools as practiced by many county or other rural superintendents. The majority of these officers are fully conscious of the limitations imposed upon them by the conditions under which they work and they are active in their efforts to…

The State is no longer thought to have performed its full duty to itself, to society, or the criminal when, by imprisonment, it has punished the criminal for his offense. When the prisoner is set free he should be a better citizen, a more desirable and efficient member of society, and a more intelligent man, with a larger amount of self-control…

Results of a questionnaire indicate that Queensland teachers vary in their reactions to inspectorial supervision. It was found that the inspectorial system has demeaned both teachers and inspectors. (Author)

Lists the components necessary for a successful Children's Center program and suggests that children can benefit greatly from the development within a school district of a team effort of student support services personnel and Children's Center personnel working together. (Author/RK)

Reprinted from "Parent's Magazine." (EL)

Camden County and Rutgers University experiment with dual employment plan to put the teacher educator in the school system. (Editor)

Argues that concepts of the elementary school principalship as essentially a role couched in the vagaries of administrative and instructional leadership seems to be questionable under the scrutiny of research. (RJ)