The development of the Maine Township (Illinois) Diagnostic and Remedial Learning Centers, a Title III/ESEA project, is described. The remedial learning centers, located in three elementary school districts and in one high school district, are termed model programs because they are designed to treat pupils in that one school. Each learning center…

Questions discussed are--(1) why should a consultant be hired, (2) what can the consultant do that our own staff and architect cannot do, and (3) what is an educational planning program for a college science facility? Fifteen basic steps involved in the development of the educational planning program are described which help college science…

The Midwest Community College Leadership Council is a cooperative agency of the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University. It has sponsored conferences for trustees and presidents of newly formed junior colleges. Ten representative addresses from the conferences, collected in this paper, cover different aspects…

This study of twenty-two Kansas state institutions was conducted to appraise the reading habits and educational level of institutional residents, the library resources and service needs of institutional residents and staff, and the possibilities for library service at institutions with security requirements. Conclusions are based on visits to…

Organizational development (OD) can be of value as a professional development tool in the school, especially where it can broaden the perspective of the teacher so that he can conceptualize the school as an organization with various related units working to achieve the same goal, see more clearly his place in the total educational program of the…

The community college experience with collective bargaining is a source of valuable information about the effects of academic unionization. This sourcebook presents interpretations of collective bargaining by the major interest groups associated with the community college--faculty, college administrators, trustees, state-level administrators--and…

Over the past decade school psychology has been rapidly developing into a distinct specialty. The current status of this developing specialty is reviewed with respect to delineating the areas of disenchantment and pinpointing new directions within the profession, Considering the variety of models or approaches for guiding school psychology into…

The development and field testing of an instructional product for the training of educational personnel in dissemination and utilization of research and development information is reported. A new role, that of the Educational Information consultant (EIC), is described. A modular training program, built around the five major processes delineated…

The Committee on Science and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences recommends that a Council for Science and Technology be established as a staff agency in the Executive Office of the President. The Council would consist of at least three full-time members drawn from the sciences, engineering, and related fields. They would be appointed…

The increased emphasis on having individual developmental disabilities diagnosed by interdisciplinary teams of professionals has raised complex problems involving time and expense in evaluating a child in his home situation. The John F. Kennedy Child Development Center has a plan to avoid moving professionals to observe a child or to having a…

In order to aid colleges and universities in establishing computing centers or in expanding existing ones, the following recommendations are made--(1) great care should be taken in the selection of a director, (2) the budget of the center must be given a high priority, (3) equipment should be carefully selected, (4) some key staff members should…

Problems are frequently encountered when attempting to improve the evaluation design of an ongoing educational program which has not made adequate provisions for evaluation. Usually the objectives of such a program are too global to guide the evaluator in the development of a more functional evaluation design. This paper presents a discussion of…

The authors describe the systematic recruitment and selection procedures in the appointment of a Director of Education for Dufferin County, Ontario. The approach centers on the use of professional consultants to assist the Board in reaching a decision, providing a list of candidates to consider and detailed information of a reasonably objective…

Instructional consultation is a school intervention strategy designed to improve the decision-making and performance capabilities of teachers and to modify the traditional colleague network in schools. The strategy is organized around four interrelated stages: entry, systematic observation, feedback, and training. This paper describes the…

An informal survey in 19 public elementary schools in Seattle, Washington, revealed what teachers and principals feel should be the basic preservice experiences and teaching responsibilities of reading specialists. It was summarized that reading specialists should be able to answer positively the following questions and their implied subquestions:…