As one of a series of reports on the needs assessment activities of PROJECT DESIGN, funded by ESEA Title III, this document contains the findings of research designed to involve a cross-section of Fresno, California citizens in educational planning and to identify educational needs perceived by the "grassroots" of that community. The…

Virginia's anti-integration massive resistance laws of 1956 resulted in the closing of the public schools and the establishment of private schools for white youngsters "Foundations" were organized in Warren and Prince Edward Counties as well as in Norfolk and Charlottesville, to perpetuate segregated, traditionally oriented education.…

The longrange goal of the Instructional Tasks Project is to determine the requirements for an effective community-school communication model and its implementation. In the project's first year, the critical incident technique was used to identify the specific behavioral concerns of the community served by the Newport-Mesa Unified School District,…

Information on censorship problems in Arizona junior high schools (grades 7-8) was gathered through a questionnaire survey of 50 English teachers in 39 schools. (See also ED 026 396 for information on high school censorship problems in Arizona.) Statistical data were collected on the number of schools, teachers, and books involved in direct or…

Forty-five unsolicited manuscripts related to prominent concerns of elementary school principals have been published in a single volume under nine topics, as follows: The role of the principal; supervision; inservice education; teacher preparation; school-community relations; parent relations; guidance; discipline; and miscellaneous. Issues…

A random sample of 400 urban public school systems having high school classes for the educable mentally retarded was surveyed to determine whether programs used a school-community work experience approach to the training and placement of mental retardates and whether these programs were keeping up with changing skill demands. A 22-item…

At this seminar, Mario Fantini, Program Officer of the Ford Foundation, discussed the theoretical frameworks on which educational programs for deprived children should be designed. Program designs required to provide effective education for poor and deprived children were explored by Kenneth Haskins, Principal of the Adams-Morgan School,…

The concept of community control of schools differs from "decentralization" because community control stresses the possibility of the schools becoming an integral part of the total community. When professional educators are coupled with a cluster of special interest groups (e.g., book publishers, realtors, landowners, politicians), they form…

The contents of this compendium, dealing with the proper role of the schools in the socialization of Afro-American, Mexican-American, Native American, Asian-American, European-American, and mainland Puerto Rican children, are organized into four parts. The introduction is an essay by Thomas F. Pettigrew, "Racially Separate or Together?" Part 1,…

In 1642, the Massachusetts General Court required parents to attend to the education of their children. Since then, the visions of the early colonists have fallen victim to rapid population expansion and a highly specialized technology, and the close ties between the school and the community have been seriously weakened. Recent reports, however,…

Research was conducted to compare the efficacy of the Mexican Telesecundaria (TS) system, which used instructional television (ITV), with that of the Ensenanza Directa (ED), which employed traditional instructional techniques. Information on the following four dimensions of the two systems at the ninth-grade level was collected: (1) student…

This exploratory study is the result of a joint effort of three bilingual communities in the United States (Native Americans, Chicanos, and Puerto Ricans), to identify factors contributing to the effectiveness of day care child development programs and to delineate the needs of those serving bilingual bicultural children. The report is divided…

The idea of computerized car pooling originated in an American Contemporary Issues class at George Washington High School in Denver, Colorado, in the fall of 1973 when a fuel shortage was imminent. The students saw car pooling as a way to take effective action and, with the expertise of a computer math class, devised a program capable of…

Because of the large increase in the number of new teachers and because of the importance of insuring disadvantaged children the best possible quality integrated education, an after-school workshop program for the training of these teachers is being offered, funded under PL 89-10, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. These workshops will…

This conference report presents, in a condensed form, the reactions by a representative group of 1,500 Ohioans to the suggestions generated by nearly 125,000 participants in local, county, and regional seminars regarding educational redesign and accountability. The conference was held to satisfy the requirements of an Ohio law which makes the…