The High Intensity Learning Center System in Reading, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is a teacher support system which defines each student's unique reading needs and prescribes appropriate learning activities to fill those needs. It is a system that permits one teacher to manage the learning activities of up…

In this assessment of the reading rate and literal comprehension skills of 9, 13, and 17 year olds, and of young adults between the ages of 26 and 35, individuals were asked to read two passages, one more difficult than the other according to readability formulas. Then each subject was asked to answer five multiple choice comprehension questions…

This study includes exercises which assessed five rudimentary skills involved in understanding and interpreting imaginative literature. The study is one of a series by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which gathers information about the eudcational attainments of 9, 13, and 17 year olds and adults (ages 26-35) in ten subject areas.…

This bibliography, one of a series of reports dealing with accountability, lists publications from State education agencies on (1) the process of their accountability programs, (2) Statewide assessment, (3) legislation, and (4) on other related subjects. These publications, which are contained in the Wisconsin State Repository, appear in the…

This document contains several short papers which cover various aspects of career education. The need for and elements of career development programs are discussed by R.M. Worthington in "Career Development for All," while G. Law, Jr., defines simulations, discusses their advantages, and presents examples in "Simulations and Career…

This report is concerned with the problems and procedures relative to planning and effecting needed improvements in big city education and is based on the assumption that States should continue to be primarily responsible for education. Five authors discuss (1) big city education: its challenge to governance; (2) urban learning environments,…

This document reports the results of a survey of school business officials to determine the status of Educational Resource Management Systems (ERMS) or Planning-Programing-Budgeting-Evaluating Systems (PPBES) in school districts and colleges in the United States and Canada. Though the actual number of school districts developing management systems…

The problem of this study was to determine the effect of an inservice education program of evaluation on school-based personnel in Escambia County, Florida, as measured by cognitive testing (knowledge) and affective (attitudinal) instrumentation. In addition, the determination of the specific objectives, met, or not met, by inservice participants…

This monograph deals with the appraisal and improvement of school administrative personnel performance. It attempts to help the reader understand what performance appraisal is, why it is essential in school organization administration, how an appraisal system functions, and how it can be made to work more effectively. In order to achieve these…

Educational innovation in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) should promote control of the profession by those who practice it. ESL teachers should provide the criteria by which they wish to be evaluated and by which a conscientious teacher can evaluate her own performance. The members of the Florida affiliate of Teachers of English to Speakers of…

A four-stage model (goal setting, program planning, program implementation, program evaluation) for achieving diversity in the means and ends of education is suggested. Its major thrust is for more educational programming at the local school level. (MS)

Four basic propositions which affect all teachers, presented in the first part of this speech, are: 1) that the prime goal of education is to advance quality of education and equality of educational opportunity; 2) that teachers and teaching are most important factors affecting quality of education for students, and that teachers can and must play…

The seventeenth Lake Okoboji Educational Media Leadership Conference addressed itself to the various applications of media accountability to the total educational process. The keynote speech emphasized the media professional's responsibility to meet changing needs for educational improvement. Seven work committees studied and reported on…

Follow Through, an educational program for K-3 grade children, is operated on the following reservations: Cherokee, North Carolina; Choctaw, Mississippi; Northern Cheyenne, Montana; Rosebud Sioux, South Dakota; Turtle Mountain, North Dakota; and Wind River, Wyoming. Since Follow Through mandates the employment of paraprofessionals from the…

It is suggested that the American system of formal education be included in discussions of problems of productivity, both as a contributor to the problem, and as an instrument to be used in seeking solutions to the problem. Career education, in particular, is viewed as being capable of making contributions toward increasing productivity. Two basic…