Urban Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC's) are faced with large case loads and long waiting lists. Clients failing the initial appointment represent a significant loss of staff time and resources to CMHC's. Despite the high rate of failed initial appointments reported, no studies have looked at means of reducing the failure rate. In the…

Updating a similar booklet published in 1975, this guide is written to assist local school districts in organizing their energy conservation efforts to maintain vital services and programs and to provide the healthful, safe, and comfortable physical environment necessary for schools. Topics covered include the composition of the district energy…

Designed to assist police departments in improving the productivity of their patrol operations, this volume on specialized patrol and a companion volume on routine patrol operations are intended for use by various sizes of departments. The volume of specialized patrol focuses upon the appropriate use and effective operation of specialized patrol…

Described is a project designed to examine the role of the public school resource specialist in serving exceptional children in California. The first section examines the establishment of the resource specialist role by the California Master Plan for Special Education, provides a historical review of school responses to exceptional children, and…

American Indian tribes are rapidly recognizing the value of libraries. Along with the tribes, individuals and organizations are also recognizing that libraries and the information services which they offer are necessary to meet Indian goals. The organization, staffing, and programming for Indian library services, while basically similar to library…

An institute on the utilization of personnel in libraries was conducted by the Florida State University School of Library Science in October, 1969. Papers presented are grouped into the following three broad categories: (1) changing attitudes toward personnel administration, (2) procedures for selecting middle management and (3) ways and means of…

This paper, prepared for the September 5, 1968, National Education Association (NEA) Staff Conference, presents the NEA position, program, and strategy with regard to preservice and inservice teacher education and professional standards. Introductory remarks include a list of seven priorities which form the "framework of context of the NEA…

Major trends toward increasing curricular relevance in teacher education are discussed. These include concern for the education of teachers of disadvantaged youth and a return to the concept of early direct and laboratory experience programs exemplified in the San Francisco State College-Sausalito Teacher Education Project, STEP (see ED 023 633),…

The Los Angeles Community College District needs to develop a written plan for affirmative action and staff development. This report proposes the content of a plan, discusses pertinent legislation, and recommends actions that the district should immediately undertake. It is specifically proposed that the district established an Office of Human…

The use of volunteer workers in the school system is an educational improvement at low cost. Volunteers should be used on a regularly scheduled basis for specific duties and projects, depending on school needs and the availability and capabilities of the volunteer. The purposes of a volunteer program are to increase student motivation, to assist…

The series in which the Office of Education presents general management data on the libraries of individual institutions, is continued by this report. The report contains statistics for 1,841 college and university libraries and seven joint libraries in order to provide data of use to administrators, librarians, and others, particularly in…

In this document, a hypothetical situation, which actually exists in many schools in the United States, is described. The situation is one in which the teacher teaches a sequence of two years of journalism. The first year is essentially a training ground, a course in the fundamentals of journalism. The second year provides the production class,…

The Nursing Home Research Study is concerned with the quantitative measurement of nursing service in nursing homes. The purpose of the project was to provide data needed to establish a basis for proposing minimal staffing patterns for nursing homes. In an adaptation of the methodology used in a study conducted by the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Health…

This document provides abstracts of papers prepared by the staff of the Manitoba Association of School Trustees for circulation to the trustees. The papers fall into three main categories: staff utilization, policy analyses of administrative and financial matters, and relations between laymen and professionals. Topics of the occasional papers…

The concern of this report is differentiated staffing. Background, historical precedents, and early models of this concept are explored, and a theory base is found in the concepts of a functional division of labor (specialized teaching talent) and the classical definition of promotion based on merit. Projects in differentiated staffing at Florida…