Presented are three papers on the administration of educational programs for delinquent youth. In a paper by G. Severns the total lack of coordination between agencies when programing for delinquent youth is pointed out, and a continuum of educational programing with a maximum of communication within and among agencies is suggested. Pennsylvania's…

This paper describes some aspects of the organization and management of 14 schools that have been participating in the voucher demonstration in Alum Rock, California. The kinds of alternative programs being offered, the allocation of decision-making within the participating schools, and the effects of parent choice are briefly discussed. An…

This paper describes the positions taken by culturalists and by language sociologists with regard to bilingualism, and discusses the implications of their positions for bilingual education. The former emphasizes duplication of the two languages, the latter their compartmentalization. The first position may not justify a carefully planned bilingual…

This report describes ten experiential education programs located throughout the United States. The principal objective of these programs is to improve the self-image of high school and college students through a series of challenging, adventuresome, and success-oriented outdoor experiences. Appreciation of outdoor science education, conservation…

This issue of "Mini-School News" deals with the first 12 steps involved in starting a minischool. The first and most critical step is to clearly identify the problems that make reform seem necessary. The question then becomes one of identifying the possible solutions and sources of information about them. Then the data must be evaluated from a…

This radio program discussed the pros and cons of the kind of compulsory school attendance laws now in force in all states except Mississippi. The program moderator talked in turn with five individuals about their views on compulsory education. B. Frank Brown, chairman of the National Commission for the Reform of Secondary Schools, recommended…

Communiversity, a four-year institution of higher learning on the model of the community college, is proposed as a possible modification of the comprehensive two-year community college. Justification for conversion lies in the separate missions of the community college and the four-year college and in the strengths of both types of institutions…

This paper reports the problems involved in measuring the extent to which the practice in program sites matches model theory formulated in Head Start Planned Variation. The main focus in studying program implementation is the question of internal validity, whether the children in the HSPV programs actually receive the treatment being evaluated.…

This publication is the second in a series of reports on educational buildings. This report deals with the multioption school, a special type of secondary school designed to offer a broad choice of educational options and activities in response to changing educational and social needs. The report analyzes problems raised by the design and…

The effectiveness of a differential staffing plan and a behavioral oriented teaching approach for upgrading of rural Utah elementary schools was examined. SPURS staffing model (an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project) consisted of an Instructional Design Team (composed of curriculum and behavioral specialists on a multischool…

The institution called the "junior high" was established in response to an accumulation of dissatisfaction with the education and with the socialization of the age group termed the "middle child", children in the 11th or 12th year through the 14th year. However, serious rethinking of the entire 7-12 sequence now needs to be undertaken. Studies are…

A questionnaire was designed to elicit the views of British headteachers in terms of their roles as relatively autonomous heads of primary schools. A survey of the literature dealing with informal education, official documents, and to a lesser extent, the observations made by the researcher in the course of this study, were used as secondary…

After a year-long investigation, the National Commission of the Reform of Secondary Education has identified many problems facing secondary education in the United States. It notes, among other problems, that large city school systems are on the verge of complete collapse. After careful scrutiny and long debate, the Commission, with a membership…

Focusing on one of the most critical and complex aspects of the concept of the regional educational service agency (RESA), the paper questions whether RESA's should be an arm of the state educational agency, pure creatures of constituent local school districts, or pure special district governments. The critical dimensions of the issue being…

The evaluation of the Los Angeles Alternative School (LAA) was designed to determine whether the school was an alternative school in the sense that it operated under a set of values and related operational principles which differ from those which guide traditional public schools. Anthropological field methods rather than traditional research…