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Download full textMerrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1982
This final report describes the Lawrence Children's Health Project (LCHP), set up in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1979, in order to demonstrate and evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of an interagency approach to providing health care to children through a school-based local resource network. The LCHP service delivery is said to have…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Children, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Boloz, Sigmund A.; Lincoln, Dorothea C. – 1982
Ganado Primary School on the Navajo Reservation has formulated and implemented an attendance improvement plan which has provided encouraging results. Formulation and implementation of the attendance improvement plan were initiated after reviewing the 1980 attendance registers which indicated the average length of enrollment had been 169 days with…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, American Indian Education, Attendance, Improvement Programs
Lenoir, Teresa C. – 1977
This monograph presents a theory of helping practice for groups that aim to facilitate a sustained capacity for problem solving in urban public schools. The theory is based on information gathered by the Documentation and Technical Assistance project (DTA) of the Center for New Schools (Chicago, Illinois), in the process of observing experiences…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
PDF pending restorationDuffy, Francis M. – 1985
Instructional supervision, despite the lack of evidence for its value, can potentially help improve instruction and promote educators' professional growth. To realize this potential, schools should analyze their supervisory practice according to these four premises: (1) that each school district and each school has unique organizational…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Thurber, John C. – 1978
This study explores the feasibility of utilizing school-focused staff development programs in promoting international cooperation through transferability and/or adaptation of relevant aspects of this type of inservice education by foreign countries. The objective of this presentation is to develop interest in ways in which teachers in various…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Improvement Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Bassin, Marc; Gross, Thomas – 1978
This study is based on an external assessment of the School Self-Renewal Program in New York City. The program represents the largest and longest running Organization Development (OD) program in the country. Twelve of 24 high schools participating in the program in 1977 were sampled. The renewal model employed for school based change was found to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, High Schools, Improvement Programs
Hinrichs, John R. – Personnel Journal, 1975
The managerial self-development program described was developed to help managers get a better look at themselves and the environment in which they operate. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Employer Employee Relationship, Evaluation Methods
Smith, Laurence N.; And Others – 1981
The major challenge confronting higher education today, how to maintain and enhance quality in a time of increasingly scarce resources, is examined. Discussed are the characteristics of the successful change process, the need for open communication, motivation of volunteers, key start up activities, and the importance of follow-through. Chapters…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Improvement Programs
Lachat, Mary Ann; Musumeci, Marilyn – 1980
The Technical Assistance Base (TAB) was established to provide the National Diffusion Network (NDN), a nationwide federal effort at school improvement, with the technical support needed to help NDN members strengthen their knowledge and capacities. This document reports on TAB's accomplishments over its first three years. Section one gives an…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Sims, E. Norman – 1978
To alleviate the time lag between the conception and the implementation of educational innovation, the Unit for Dissemination has been formed by the Kentucky Department of Education. Within the goals of fostering awareness and interest in innovation and of spreading innovation from field test to ultimate user, the Unit has defined objectives which…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Charts, Diffusion, Educational Change
MADDOX, EDWARD C.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE COMMISSION ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION WAS REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE IN THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS RELATING TO RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND OTHER DISCRIMINATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE EMPLOYMENT OF CERTIFICATED EMPLOYEES, THE ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION OF PUPILS, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS. REPORTS ON THE…
Descriptors: De Facto Segregation, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Philadelphia Public Schools, PA. – 1963
THE PROGRAM'S PURPOSE WAS TO RAISE PUPIL'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, INCREASE THE PROCESSIONAL GROWTH OF THE STAFF, DEVELOP PUPIL POTENTIAL, BRING ENRICHMENT TO BOTH CHILDREN AND THE COMMUNITY, AND DEVELOP A WHOLESOME, HARMONIOUS, AND INTELLIGENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY. STAFF EVALUATIONS OF THE PROGRAM REVEALED DEFINITE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
KATZ, DAVID; WOMACK, HERBERT H. – 1964
THE MAJOR EMPHASIS AT FERGUSON SCHOOL WAS LANGUAGE ARTS. AN EVALUATION REVEALED THAT, IN EVERY GRADE TESTED, THE NUMBER OF PUPILS ATTAINING GRADE OR ABOVE-GRADE SCORES INCREASED. DATA FROM THE INFORMAL READING INVENTORIES, ADMINISTERED THREE TIMES DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR INDICATED A MEAN GROWTH OF TWO BOOK LEVELS. THE AREA IN WHICH THE LEAST AMOUNT…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Enrichment Activities, Improvement Programs
CLAYTON, THOMAS E.; AND OTHERS – 1963
THE STUDY IS BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND STUDENTS AND OBSERVATIONS MADE OF CLASSES. THE OBSERVATIONS ARE COMPARED WITH OBSERVATIONS MADE 2 YEARS BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGAN. IT IS REPORTED THAT THE CLIMATE OF THE SCHOOL HAS IMPROVED NOTICEABLY. STUDENTS RESPOND WITH GREATER INTEREST AND SPONTANEITY. TEACHER ATTITUDES ARE…
Descriptors: Facilities, Followup Studies, Improvement Programs, Interviews
Hill, Bettye Jane – 1980
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of an inservice program for four teachers who, in order to meet Federal integration guidelines, were given kindergarten assignments for which they were not certified. Comparison of test scores of disadvantaged kindergarten children taught by trained and untrained teachers revealed…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development
