This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community educator and community education advisory council member who would like to learn how effective and careful planning can improve their community education program. The…

This document provides guidelines for preparing evaluation programs for scholastic improvement. The philosophy underlying assessment and accountability is discussed, with specific reference to the positive and negative aspects of assessment. The design of a curriculum evaluation model is presented, including goal identification, data gathering,…

Presents a descriptive account of what is happening at various educational institutions in the teaching of children's literature and the preparation of elementary level teachers. (RB)

Comments on eight changes initiated in the late sixties that would alter English programs during the seventies. (RB)

The apparatus that the various States use to govern and coordinate their public colleges and universities has been substantially redesigned in the last 20 years. Especially dramatic has been the proliferation of "coordinating boards," those State agencies that occupy the legal and political turf between the various universities (which have their…

Provides a solution to the growth problem in higher education libraries by means of a formula based on such variables as enrollment, size of faculty, number of graduate fields, etc. (Author/PG)

The curriculum change for which these projections were made included eliminating traditional distribution requirements in favor of interdisciplinary programs and increased student electives. The plan allowed study of the staffing needs and anticipated effects upon departmental offerings. (Editor)

An experiment to make the transition from a traditional education to education for community advancement is described as to background, urban/rural orientation, and general characteristics. (Author/KM)

Author cites the school principal as a valuable source for school system policy makers. (GB)

Presents the recommendations of the Panel on Alternate Approaches to Graduate Education, followed by statements of reaction written by three professors of English and a doctoral graduate student.

The type of model this paper is concerned with consists of four parts: a set of variables describing the part of the educational system to be analyzed; a set of relationships among variables, expressed as equations; estimates of the parameters governing the relationships; and solution procedures for the model. In the first section of this paper,…

Author discussed the tendency of economists of education, cited by Douglas Windham, to turn heterogeneous data (school leavers, enrollment, teachers, secondary schools) into statistical abstractions and considered three other kinds of abstraction said to have contributed to planning deficiencies. (Author/RK)

The concept of planning social change through education has grown popular since 1945 though with varying aims. This article examined five models, namely, of society, of man, of change, of directions of change, and finally, of the methods for bringing about change. (Editor/RK)

Author discussed "futurists," social scientists who examine those periods in the future which are controllable, and school district planning for those times. (Author/RK)