A major problem in establishing effective educational programs in developing nations is seen to be the need to reeducate adults to learn to accept modern values and life skills. (AV)

Discusses some of the criteria and assumptions useful to department chairpeople planning for the future of academic departments. Available from: ACA Bulletin, Robert Hall, Editor, Speech Communication Association, 5205 Leesburg Pike, Suite 1001, Falls Church, VA 22041. (MH)

Outlines the effective counseling programs developed by the Jefferson County Schools (Colorado) that meet the needs of students and adults through a focus on the positive. (MD)

Identifies important ongoing planning activities in Norway, stressing the actual, not necessarily the formal, structure of decision making within the educational system. (Author/JDH)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of prepackaged software programs and custom-developed software programs, along with the use of microcomputers. (MD)

An overview is given of the involvement of IBM in secondary and college education. Several grant programs, inservice training programs, and faculty loan programs are noted. (MNS)

This article reviews problems associated with school planning, highlights reasons for resistance, and suggests components of an effective planning process. Additional functions of an effective plan are identified as serving as a communication and coordinating device, a monitoring framework, a political document, and an organizational database.…

Strategic planning, a logical framework for organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling the work of an organization, spans three philosophies: "satisficing, optimizing, and adaptivizing." While higher education's traditional orientation is satisficing, continuing education agencies can lead the movement toward adaptivization of…

Organization development may be a tool as requisite to the development director as the ultra-brite smile. How can a development effort use methods from this emerging discipline to be more effective? In four areas: planning, teamwork, human needs, and commitment. (Author)

Provides five guiding principles helpful in cataloging, storing, and circulating teacher-made materials as well as commercially produced media. (Author/RK)

Discusses the planning process, the techniques used by planners, the implementation and geographical aspects of planning, and the way the educational planner is able to get power to survive and to push ahead his proposals. (Author/IRT)

To curb malpractice in the education sector, various countries have developed professional codes of conduct. Given the importance of this issue, the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) devoted this book to codes of conduct. This book includes three separate, though interrelated and complimentary parts. Section One of the report…

In the era of globalization, many schools have recognized strategic planning as the key factor to enhance their organizational performance. To survive and prosper in this hyper-competitive environment, institutional leaders are to implement strategic planning to help match all activities of the school to its environment and to its resource…

Educators often use the term technical assistance to define services delivered or received in the pursuit of school- and district-improvement initiatives. More specifically, technical assistance can be defined as any assistance that identifies, selects, or designs research-based solutions and practices to support school improvement (Mattson &…