The model outlined here described sociological, political, economic and educational interactions in an urban school system in order to describe how the system is performing and might be amenable to change and reform." (Author)

A brief discussion of the tendency to misuse the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis because it gives superficially simple, quantitative answers to highly complex problems whose sources and repercussions are very poorly understood." (Author/AA)

Delphi technique as used by the University of Virginia School of Education. (LR)

A report on the events and developments at the sixteenth Okoboji Conference. (LS)

Rutman's view of evaluability assessment is reviewed, evaluation planning activities are illustrated via flow diagram for a large educational evaluation designed to increase citizen participation in local school activities, and some of the limitations of Rutman's evaluability procedures are outlined. (RL)

Discusses intriguing challenges in education in the last 25 years. Highlights events that took place and provides brief descriptions of each of them in the form of a timeline. (MOK)

The WAC director, composition director, director of Institutional Assessment (OIA), and WAC/OIA liaison describe the programmatic "needs" and "wants" they balanced in the plan they collaboratively designed to respond to a state mandate for "value-added" writing assessment. To satisfy this mandate, as they explain,…

Parents and school administrators are both stakeholders in the IEP (Individualized Education Plan) process. While the inclusion of parents in the process as full members is mandated by IDEA 2004 there remains a growing problem of conflict within this process. Research has reviewed the process of conflict during the IEP meeting and other…

The purpose of this study was to investigate on the challenges facing heads of public secondary schools in implementing their school development plans in Morogoro Municipality. The study was cross-sectional and employed survey method. Two instruments were developed and used to collect data for the study. They were questionnaire and interviews. The…

The paper examines the professional training of Principals of secondary schools in Nigeria. The study observes that teaching experience appears to be the major yardstick that is being used currently to promote teachers to the rank of school Principals in the country. After drawing experiences from some other countries on how Principals are trained…