The mission of this study is to identify reasonable standards for the space requirements of a small high school of under 100 students--perhaps even as small as ten--remote both in distance and social structure from the mainstream of the normal American educational system and to identify, at least conceptually, how such space can be used.…

To become an adequate educational facility, the school plant must be designed to house, promote, and enhance an educational program. As the community's educational needs change the program changes. Facilities should, therefore, be planned for change as well. While local administrators must be responsible for assessing changes in the community,…

This paper asserts that "planned change" is a process that can be used by educational directors to improve the organization and management of activities in situations where goals involve the implementation of change. Literature on the topic of planned change, from the fields of industry, government, education, and the social sciences, is…

In order to define long-term curriculum trends and to understand more fully the reasons for curriculum change and continuity, course lists for six Colorado Springs school districts were compared for the years 1961-62, 1970-71, and 1976-77. In addition, confidential questionnaires were distributed to 108 administrators and teachers in the six…

This packet of forms, instruments, and guidelines has been assembled to aid in the determination of the articulation status and needs existing in elementary-junior high school and junior-senior high school programs. The term "articulation" is understood to mean the smooth transition from one grade or subject area into the next with as little…

During the 1976 session of the General Assembly, a stalemate between the House of Representatives, which passed the Board of Regents bill, and the Senate, which adopted an amendment for a commission to study the structure of higher education, resulted in a conference committee suggestion that the Legislative Program Review and Investigations…

Described is an 11-stage model for involving parents in the educational program of their handicapped child. (CL)

Presents a model which delineates the roles of counselors, students, and members of the community in developing an educational environment conducive to healthy student development. Presented at Annual NASPA Conference, San Francisco, March, 1975. (CJ)

UNESCO's plan to use education as an instrument for national development would place the school at the center of the social change process. The author outlines the planning strategies, program design and institutional structures, and educational roles for adult educators if they desire to play roles in the emerging Learning Society. (Author/AJ)

Describes and illustrates the use of a model used at the University of Vermont College of Medicine to examine both financial implications and effect on faculty effort of any planned programmatic changes, e.g. effect of specific enrollment increase on basic sciences and clinical training departments. (JT)

Latin Americans stand much closer to the person they're speaking to than do North Americans. Why? It's all in our basic concepts of space. The author discusses why some North Americans may be having difficulty accepting the new open-space schools, and what can be done about it. (Editor)

This paper reports a procedure used for the design of management information systems at the school board level. It was developed in cooperation with two Ontario boards--a large board with access to computer facilities and a small board with a manual record-keeping system. (Author/IRT)

Illustration of each unit of a graduate course on microeconomic theory and discussion of the weekly problem sets, including two students' perceptions of the course. (ND)

The stated purpose of this paper is to examine critically problems and proposed solutions related to developing research activities at predominantly black colleges, with the focus being primarily on four-year colleges and universities; research is discussed, it is stated, from the perspective of the behavioral sciences. (Author/JM)