These ten guidelines offer approaches for the development and implementation of multicultural materials. The approaches reflect the cooperative, shared roles of administrators, teachers, and parents in a school and community. Steps one and two involve identifying a core planning team and participants. Steps three and four identify strategies for…

A three-phase interdisciplinary effort between educators and environmental planners is focusing on the social effects of rural primary school reorganization now occuring in England as a result of a declining birth rate and the resulting need for school closure. A questionnaire mailed nationally to rural Local Education Authorities, cross-community…

These materials represent first hand documentations of 25 school-based drug abuse prevention program activities and experiences in the state of California. The programs, based on the premise that effective prevention programs improve a school's atmosphere for learning and growth, are described in terms of their design, implementation, and…

Included in this document are the proceedings from a conference on Youth Employment held September 26-27, 1979, in Baltimore, Maryland. This report is divided into the following four sections: conference agenda; conference papers; symposia outlines of conference sessions; and selected youth statistics. The following conference papers comprise the…

Despite special programs, new technology, curriculum revisions, and compensatory education programs, there has been little improvement in the quality and results of urban education. Better accounatability, research, and staff training, all areas in which the urban university can influence public education, are central to the resolution of urban…

This study explores a design for a curriculum model for improving the preparation of teachers for rural schools. It was based on surveys and interviews conducted to assess needs, characteristics, and attitudes of rural communities. The functions and responsibilities of the college administrator were also examined with particular emphasis on the…

This report is designed to highlight certain aspects of the growth and development of primary education in Tasmania which have specific implications for those concerned with the education of children. The report focuses on the needs of children during the primary school years and the crucial importance of appropriate learning experiences at this…

This monograph contains eight papers and one bibliography resulting from an American Personnel and Guidance Association study of the role of the school counselor in career education. The articles are (1) Contrasts Between the Guidance and the Career Education Movement, discussing their similarities and counselor involvement; (2) The Comprehensive…

A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF VARIOUS FACETS OF THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL IS PRESENTED. MAIN AREAS ARE--(1) AN OVERALL PICTURE OF THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL WHICH INCLUDES INFORMATION ON SUCH CARACTERISTICS AS SCHOOL PRACTICES, POLICY, SCHOOL PLANT, PRINCIPAL AND TEACHING STAFF, AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS. AS SCHOOL PRACTICES, POLICY, SCHOOL PLANT,…

FROM AN ANALYSIS OF OVER 2,000 RECONSTRUCTED CONVERSATIONS HELD BY 50 ADULTS IN EACH OF FIVE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE DATA WERE OBTAINED TO MEASURE FLOWS OF INFORMATION AND INFLUENCE FROM THE SCHOOL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR OBTAINING PUBLIC SUPPORT. THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DESCRIBE (1) PERSONS WHO TALK ABOUT SCHOOLS, (2) THE KINDS OF…

PROJECT ABLE IS AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY AND TO ENCOURAGE POTENTIALLY ABLE PUPILS FROM CULTURALLY DEPRIVED OR LOW SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS TO COMPLETE APPROPRIATE PROGRAMS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION. STUDENTS FROM THE SEVENTH AND TWELFTH GRADES FROM CULTURALLY POOR OR UNHAPPY HOMES WERE SELECTED BY PRINCIPALS AND FACULTIES OF…

Though small school districts comprise the majority of school districts in the United States, they have been overshadowed by the needs and standards applied to the larger schools. Problems specific to small school districts include lack of resources and financial strength, narrower range of program offerings, educational equity, and lack of…

Four sets of variables are likely to influence the nature of rural education by the year 2030. The first trend characterizes the mass production model of education and calls for increased specialization. This trend is likely to be replaced by a broader, more integrated one in which the interrelationships between content areas will be more evident…

Rural education is finally gaining the attention it has been denied for so long. Slight gains, such as federal recognition, have been made. This has been a worldwide trend. A study of rural education conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development details the state of worldwide rural education in a fifteen point outline,…

This is the report of a conference held in March 1980, for the purposes of sharing, among black educators, experiences with successful education programs and devising strategies for improving ineffective schools. The introductory addresses by Shirley Chisholm and Augustus F. Hawkins are summarized, as are the presentations of John Algee, Mary…