Brief recommendations and resources for accommodating handicapped students in community colleges are offered. Recommendations are presented for creating an advisory board, providing support services, accommodating handicapped students in existing programs, and identifying handicapped students. Resources which are described include books and…

This handbook for administrators of school district mathematics programs outlines a set of procedures for implementing the Pennsylvania Comprehensive Mathematics Plan (PCMP) and provides a degree of standardization and a planning framework to encourage the communication of related ideas and successes. The procedural steps, instruments, checklists,…

By focusing on the necessary stages and features of a staff-change policy, this manual assists local school boards and administrators in planning for reductions in staff and layoffs. It first reviews statutory authority held by boards and administrators in reducing the number of school employees and defines key terms used in the discussion of…

Intended primarily for teachers of language arts in grades K-12, this program guide provides a framework and philosophy of language arts for all those concerned and involved with education in the public schools of Hawaii. The guide can assist schools in the building of programs that will help students become competent communicators and…

The budgeting handbook for school districts in the State of New York was first published in 1955. This latest revision is designed to address a number of significant changes that have occurred recently in the area of school finance and management. It is also designed to provide a basis for the establishment and maintenance of budgetary systems in…

Based upon a review of handbooks and manuals from 212 two-year colleges in 39 states, this paper examines directions currently evident in the purpose, content, style and format of these publications and offers recommendations for their improvement. After looking at the characteristics of junior/community college faculty handbooks in the 1960s, the…

The guide discusses the federal regulations that require program evaluation of Title IV Indian Education Act projects. Sections provide examples of Title IV evaluation in terms of needs, goals, objectives, activities, and evaluations; definitions of each of the aforementioned; examples of how to write product objectives; pointers about product…

This part of the School Management Handbook provides the elementary school administrator with an overview of civil rights issues affecting school discipline policy. The first section treats the requirements for providing due process and avoiding discrimination against minority groups when following disciplinary procedures. Section 2 covers…

This report presents a guide for the development of a Job-Experience-Training (JET) plan for the newly-established Regional Colleges of Burma. The Regional Colleges are three-year postsecondary institutions designed to train middle level technicians to help increase the production of goods and services needed in the Burmese economy. Concentrating…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this seventh section focuses on the various ways private sector resource persons may be effectively selected and utilized by vocational teacher education institutions. (Resource persons,…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this eighth section focuses on the program support approach to utilizing the private sector. (Program support, as defined here, encompasses monetary assistances, donation of time and…

This document is volume 4 of a four-volume report which describes the components of the Health Services Mobility Study (HSMS) method of task analysis, job ladder design, and curriculum development. Divided into three chapters, volume 4 is a manual for using HSMS task data and analysis results to develop curriculum objectives, guidelines, and…

Materials contained in this career education implementation guide (one in a series of seven) describe the function and structure of career learning centers (CLC). Major topics discussed include services and strategies, resources, staffing, facilities, evaluation, and budget considerations. Appendixes contain a list of resources and a sample…

This is an administrative guide for bilingual/bicultural education programs in the Detroit, Michigan, public schools. The first section of the guide provides background on the legal mandate for bilingual education. Section two discusses the identification and selection of limited English-speaking ability pupils for bilingual services. The third…