This paper examines the organizational planning process and its potential contribution as a method of facilitating a school system's ability to adapt to its changing environment. After reviewing the literature on educational planning and discussing several different planning models, the author concludes that the educational planning process could…

Declining enrollment necessitates thorough educational planning and effective decision-making to deal with the community traumas that usually accompany school closings and curtailment of services. The author outlines suggestions for maintaining good school-community relations through developing consensus, community involvement in decision-making,…

An attempt has been made to categorize phenomena observed as 20 teacher training institutions have adopted innovations and to extrapolate from these findings key concepts and principles that could form the basis for developing empirically testable hypotheses and could be of some immediate utility to those involved in innovation adoption. The…

An overall program for political and vocational education in elementary schools is discussed. (DE)

Teachers at all levels are encouraged, if not required, to produce and use behavioral objectives. The author offers several useful suggestions for doing so. (Editor)

"Involving all the citizens of a community is a social imperative," writes the author, who sees community education as a "community-involving process." (Editor)

This article briefly outlines the objectives and approaches to be instituted in establishing an environmental studies program for the San Francisco Bay area. The project incorporates community and school resources. The approach will be interdisciplinary combining ecologic concepts with socioeconomic concepts in analyzing the past and present…

Emphasizes the importance of the attitude of the principal and all school staff members in improving the attitudes and involvement of parents in planning educational programs for their handicapped children. (IRT)

Notes that the articles in this special issue examine the relationship between schools and a people's sense of nationality. The main question addressed is: What are the social consequences of using schools to displace primordial attachments and transform them into a sense of nationality? (Author/AM)

There are some successful techniques for providing a productive work environment. Here is a simple outline with some specific examples. (Author/RK)

Of concern here are traditionalist educational policies encapsulated in contemporary Development Plans of two Melanesian island-nations, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and one Polynesian island-nation, Tonga. Such policies ignore new knowledge, new aspirations, new attitudes to school and are inappropriate for current educational needs.…

The Pennsylvania Training Model's Educational Planning System for teaching the severely/profoundly handicapped is described. (Author)

Presents a detailed research approach, designed for higher institutions, to evaluate their program effectiveness, with respect to students' personal and intellectual growth, and the cost involved. Helps the institutions to make more informed decisions regarding their priorities. (GA)

Discussed are problems and procedures in setting goals and objectives for learning disabled children in the implementation of Individualized Education Programs required by the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (Author/ DLS)

Lists 60 problems (and suggestions for their solution) that arose during the adoption of a management by objectives program, were suggested by that experience, or came out of the literature. (IRT)