Intended for both researchers and practitioners, this review analyzes literature on educational accountability and performance contracting. It defines the concepts, describes certain individual contracts completed or in progress, discusses the use of management systems and safeguards, identifies some testing and measurement problems, and probes…

The author examines how school boards too often view the drug problem, its prevention and the educating and helping of users. Current biases and prejudices concerning drugs and users are viewed as obstacles to solutions. The most commonly used educational and preventive measures are critically evaluated. Attitude change is considered a more…

This document reports the results of a 1971 survey of the status of public relations programs in over 200 school systems, updating the information from a similar survey conducted in 1967. The report tabulates and analyzes data reported on 208 questionnaires and, wherever possible, compares the data with those of the 1967 survey. Part A of the…

The Instructor-Counselor Program is designed to prepare teachers for special service in lower division college programs, especially in student development programs concentrating on basic skills. It emphasizes academic counseling, tutoring, and special approaches to instruction, especially for the underachieving-disadvantaged student. Both full-…

Prepared from a 3-agency team study of the Norwalk-La Mirada public schools during October through December of 1970, this problem-oriented report sets forth the results of school observations, community interviews, and staff opinion surveys, all directed toward analyzing intergroup relations and Mexican American education in this predominantly…

To facilitate planning, development, and implementation of educational policies, data was collected concerning community attitudes toward both current and desired educational programs. Sampling procedures, instrumentation, data collection, and responses to questionnaire items and open-ended questions are described in detail. Appendices include…

The issues and outcomes uncovered in the Minneapolis New Careers project had three stated goals: (1) to help low-income people enter the job market in the human service occupations, (2) to allow the low income aide to help the middle class professional relate to a variety of minority groups, and (3) to create new careers of socially useful jobs at…

This state of the literature report, developed by Contemporary Research Incorporated, is Volume I of an assessment of a preservice training program designed to prepare inner-city elementary teachers. The study was designed to ascertain teacher's perceptions of the problems they face, their level of competence, and the extent to which preservice…

Questions aimed at better school-community relations through identification of problems and courses of positive action were pursued at a seminar. Positive statements were presented by a citizen, a businessman, and an educator; and discussions were launched from the propositions, problems, and points raised in these papers. This report consists of…

Because conflict has become a pervasive element within the school environment as well as in the larger community, this review, based on reports abstracted in RIE, focuses on conflict management. Such management seeks and uses ways to understand and deal with the differing opinions, needs, and ideas that are a part of the contemporary school. The…

Five major themes mark the development of public education in New York City from its early nineteenth century beginning to the mid-twentieth century: (1) the effort to provide free education for all children through the twelfth grade; (2) the development of special schools and programs for gifted youth; (3) the development of programs for children…

A lunch program on the Lower East Side with kosher meals for Jewish children and Italian meals for Italian children and a health program in which visits to students' homes are a regular service are a small part of the efforts made 50 and 100 years ago to meet the needs of New York City's immigrant school children. The implications of such a…

This volume of the report of the New York Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education is organized in four parts. Chapter 11, "Governance," discusses local control and citizen participation; the local school district; BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Services) and regionalism; and, performance…

This evaluative instrument provides the prospective evaluator with a means for systematically viewing nine common elements of Adult and Continuing Education Centers. These elements are: (1) setting and students; (2) philosophy and objectives; (3) facilities and equipment; (4) instructional programs; (5) administrative organization; (6) personnel;…

The ten issues comprising the fourth volume of the Junior College Research Review are presented in this document. Topics discussed include: students, curriculum, activism, trustees, faculty evaluation and recruitment, financial support, community relations, and academic probation. The first three volumes of this publication are included in JC 720…