A majority of the people in the United States believe school boards are doing an inadequate job of informing them about board activities, according to a 1975 survey. This handbook is intended to inform school boards of the need for effective communication and to offer suggestions for establishing constructive contact with the public and with…

Adoption by the local school board of a new student discipline and conduct code required by the state department of education generated conflict in a rural community around the values inherent in the discipline of young people. Discipline was narrowly defined by community members in terms of establishment of order, adult control, and student…

This is not a lawbook, but rather an indepth discussion of specific areas of concern to Oklahoma educators. It is composed of information based on the author's experience as Chief Counsel for the Oklahoma State School Boards Association and for the Oklahoma Association of School Administrators as well as on case law, legal opinions, statutes, and…

The product of a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) workshop (1968) on American Indian community involvement in educational programs, this handbook is designed to aid local school board members in assuming educational leadership roles. The following topics are covered: (1) the beginnings of an educational program (philosophy, policy, and educational…

The objective of this paper is to discuss the utilization of Stake's theory of responsive evaluation by a unit in state government charged with the evaluation of the Illinois Migrant Program. Through interviews with state and local Title I staff, we were able to discover program purposes and concerns and to later conceptualize these concerns into…

Because of its own concern about the effectiveness of public education in New Brunswick and in response to a similar concern expressed by different community groups, the New Brunswick Board of Education engaged the Institute of Field Studies of Teachers College, Columbia University to study its educational system and directed it to examine the…

Ideas for career education activities were written by and aimed at practicing teachers of grades K-12. Writers were participants in miniconferences conducted by the Office of Career Education, U. S. Office of Education, that drew from outstanding career education programs throughout the 50 States. Presented in short paragraph form, the ideas…

A dynamically exploding world demands new modes of educational leadership. New definitions of leadership are focusing on humanistically oriented, affectively concerned, relational, caring kinds of persons. The basic focus of CFK Ltd. has been on improving schools by improving the leadership behavior of school administrators. The relational concept…

Many educators react defensively to demands for student assessment, accountability, and so forth. Rather than being defensive, we must turn these challenges to our advantage. If I am responsible in my work, then I ought to also be accountable for my work. We must describe what schools are expected to accomplish and show publicly whether these…

This handbook has been prepared to stimulate and give direction to the teaching of human relations as well as to encourage a humanistic approach to teaching. It does not contain all the answers but merely offers ideas, suggestions, and information. The effectiveness of this handbook will depend on its use by teachers. It is not an end but a means…

In early 1972, the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights turned its attention to the growing Puerto Rican population in Philadelphia, a population estimated to be anywhere from 30,000 to 125,000. A two-day open meeting or informal hearing was held on June 6 and 7, 1972, to look at two major problem areas for…

This report is the response to a request from the United States Commission on Civil Rights that a research program be designed to accomplish two tasks: (1) to measure the effectiveness of different desegregation strategies in providing equality of educational experiences to black, Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, and Anglo students; (2) to provide…

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked the Rand Corporation to prepare a design for an exhaustive research program on school desegregation. This is Volume 2 of the final report. The 11 sections of this volume describe a general design for a research program in school desegregation. Section 6 describes a community reaction survey. In Section 7…

The yearbook attempts to show the relationship between the philosophical concepts and the practical demands of program organization and operation in vocational education. Experienced educators present their differing philosophic orientations on a variety of topics. Melvin L. Barlow views the role of vocational education in an industrial society…

This book is written to help the reader avoid some of the problems that the Pasadena school system and community experienced during the evolution of an alternative program. It leads one through a developmental process in the evolution of an alternative school that started in the spring of 1972. The school has grown to 600 students in 30 months and…