An experimental college course was designed to develop solutions to form major problems in higher education: student underachievement, large student/faculty ratios, high cost of education, and the complaint that liberal education is difficult to achieve and irrelevant to the world of affairs. To improve student achievement, daily reading…

Prepared specifically for the Denver Public Schools, this manual nevertheless provides some of the basic understanding required for the proper execution of educational planning based upon PERT/CPM techniques. The theory of PERT/CPM and the fundamental processes involved therein are elucidated in the first part of the manual while the operating…

A description of how educational plans for a flexibly scheduled, nongraded intermediate school were implemented architecturally. Consideration of architectural elements is amplified by photographs and plans. (FPO)

The degree to which Fresno City College (California) is meeting the curricular needs of its students is examined in this study of 234 students and 26 faculty. An analysis of student preferences toward 20 selected learning modes is compared to the amount of time which faculty devote to each. High correlation between preference and practice exists…

Fourth in a series of profiles documenting the practices of 24 institutions, this report describes Syracuse University's Center for Instructional Development, which spearheads the campus-wide determination to find better ways of teaching and learning. The Center relies not on hardware but on the force of its ideas and the willingness of the…

The purpose of this practicum was to develop, implement, and evaluate a humanistic system for student registration and self-scheduling in a comprehensive high school. The author developed a model registration and scheduling system, which was introduced on an experimental basis in a Baltimore-area high school and then evaluated by staff members and…

This book presents information on new scheduling concepts and approaches that are currently being used by different schools and is intended to aid school principals at all levels who are interested in revising, adapting, or rebuilding their scheduling systems. Individual chapters focus in turn on instructional programming and scheduling,…

This report details the research activities conducted by San Antonio College (SAC) as a subcontractor of Project FOLLOW-UP, in the design, development, and implementation of a graduate follow-up system. Numerous information gathering techniques, including personal interviews and follow-up questionnaires, were attempted. Four different groups of…

Recommendations based on findings from a study of 40 secondary schools by a commission appointed to study staff utilization in secondary schools were released in January 1958. The recommendations, dubbed the "Trump Plan," are outlined in this report. The main proposals call for (1) organization of instruction into related classes that include…

The purpose of this manual is to describe critical techniques and components that should be considered in a comprehensive management system. The various sections of this manual describe in detail the concepts and skills necessary for developing and implementing a management by objectives (MBO) system. The manual should provide a vehicle to the…

When programs or projects involve a complexity of personnel and activities, it often becomes an administrator's headache to keep the program on course. Some type of program operational guide (often referred to as work plans or management manuals) should be developed to assist program staff with management of the implementation process. An analysis…

One of the main emphases of the Tri-District Outdoor Education Project, funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, was the development of a resident outdoor education program for both elementary and secondary students. This report includes the various procedural phases of their program development such as facility…

This final report of the 3-year Grand Forks, North Dakota, ESEA Title III project focuses on the impact on the school district (11,500 pupils) and its instructional program of a six-school experiment in which two elementary and one junior high school were provided with one teacher aide for each six teachers. The introduction describes the…

Intended primarily for new staff members, this manual includes most procedures, rules, benefits applicable to the entire White Plains, New York, school system or unique to the Adult Education Center. It covers such matters as enrollment trends within the overall adult basic education (ABE) program, the ABE program organization chart, personnel…

Reported is the 1963 special summer dropout prevention program financed by the President's emergency fund and by various other national, state, and local agencies and organizations. The document summarizes the dropout campaign and describes briefly the types of programs and methods used to identify and contact dropouts and potential dropouts. Also…