This first National Indian Workshop on School Affairs provided 5 days of training and orientation for 165 Indian participants from 46 tribal groups. The areas of instruction were 1) parental involvement, including PTA, attendance at school functions, awareness of what is going on in the school, encouragement of the parents' interest and concern in…

This report offers 2-year colleges and law enforcement agencies alternatives for merging resources for improving police training and education. Currently approximately 250 2-year colleges offer programs inlaw enforcement, police science, or police administration education. The President's Crime Commission reports that present training programs of…

Contents of this compendium of technical reports on 1969-1970 Los Angeles City School programs funded under ESEA Title 1 are organized by division. Division of Elementary Education programs include reading, mathematics, English as a second language, teacher-librarian, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, Follow Through, Intergroup Relations, Parent…

This planning overview is part of phase two of PROJECT DESIGN, an ESEA Title III project administered by the Fresno City Unified School District. Developing a long-range interagency master plan for Fresno involves three separate but interrelated activities. The first branch of activity consists of conducting a needs assessment (EA 002 822 thru EA…

The report of the April 1970 NEA Conference on the teaching profession and instructional improvement focuses on the need for the professional association to become increasingly involved in the improvement of teaching and the curriculum. The conference objectives were 1) to identify the association's role in curriculum, instruction, and personnel…

An Urban Affairs Seminar for Broadcast News and Editorial Directors is both a feasible idea and a need. Unlike newspapers, television and radio stations have no "resident experts" in the various aspects of urban affairs. A faculty was selected, the seminar was organized, and a prospectus mailed to approximately 500 stations. Unfortunately, the…

Review of school-community relationsuip studies in Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., shows that these successful undertakings were guided by several objectives. Most important among these were (1) to develop information about means of local school-community interaction and communication and their effectiveness, (2) to become…

Four papers from a workshop for school business officials focus attention on school budgeting. Legal problems uncovered in examining formal and oral audit reports of many school districts are discussed in a presentation on the legal pitfalls in budgeting. Secondly, efficient and effective money management procedures are discussed with specific…

The purpose of this publication is to present Norway's industrial status, industrial manpower profile, and philosophy of vocational training. The relation between general and vocational education is discussed and Norway's educational system is outlined. Occupational areas receiving detailed discussion include (1) Agriculture, (2) Maritime…

Control of public education in the United States is vested in the citizenry. Evaluation is a necessary function of control. The gap between occupational and general education must be narrowed by recognition that both may contribute to occupational choice, competence, and advancement, and also to the objectives of general education. As unsystematic…

The failure of school district public relations has been the most common reason for the dismissal of otherwise competent school administrators. In an effort to counteract this weakness, a 2-week workshop was organized by the School of Education at the University of Denver in the summer of 1969 to provide training in public relations techniques.…

This report outlines basic needs to which a Latin American Studies Center in a University should address itself: community relations, student and teacher education, research (especially in values and behavior patterns of minority groups), textbook design, and upgrading students in both ethnic language and cultural background. Programs already…

The program was conducted in a six school cluster focusing on a three-prong thrust of curriculum revision, inservice training, and securing maximum community involvement. Orientation and exploration of careers and upgraded vocational offerings were aimed at insuring for students placement in jobs, services, or institutions of further training. The…

The Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE) program, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, tries to find a way of working with students in grades 5-9 that will get them vitally interested and involved in learning, that will develop in them genuine specific skills for continued learning, and that will…

Project Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE), launched in December 1969, funded under Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, uses such cooperative strategies as the Jobs-Alike Work Conference, The Design for Materials Sharing, and The Inter-City Program Transplant. The program goals of the Memphis component were to…