The report is a discussion of the curriculum and supportive educational facilities for the state of Hawaii. An administrative view of guidance services and teacher programing is included. Supportive facilities are sketched, showing their relationship to such specific instructional areas as music, shop, home economics, drawing and painting,…

The educational system is wracked by three crises: the crisis of efficiency and support; the crisis of relevance and control; and the crisis of race and class. Concerning the first, budgeteers and law makers will soon want answers about the efficiency of the present distribution of educational tasks and levels, new programs, and the use of new…

During the past several years a number of studies and subsequent reports have been issued which addressed specific needs in the area of management for schools in the District of Columbia. All of the reports cited here--the Passow, Nelsen Committee, Price-Waterhouse, and Management Review Reports--identified areas of deficiency in the managerial…

The study of language variation has brought linguists closer to some of the problems which concern our schools, namely, the teaching of reading, writing, and speaking. Through variability studies, answers can be found to questions about how to delimit styles, how to effect acceptability in school writing and talking, how to appreciate the dynamics…

This report is one of a series of disciplinary planning studies carried out by the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning. This report concerns the field of graduate study in education in Canada. Recommendations include: (1) The universities should encourage the development of Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) programs and other types of…

In determining the feasibility of a year-round school program, administrators should judge its potential for facilities utilization, relief of overcrowding, personnel utilization, curriculum improvement, and better learning opportunities -- especially for the slow and fast learners. To determine the potential of a year-round school, a Steering…

Recommendations based on the two-and-a-half-year history of The Demonstration Center for Language Handicapped (LH) Children are reported. Noted are such recommendations as the following: that each school district develop its own operational definition of LH based on the state definition, adding the concept of significant discrepancy between…

Two papers are presented concerning comparative higher education--one concerning its relevance for policymaking and the other reviewing a United States view. The first paper reviews comparative higher education in relation to studies of higher education, the use of comparative studies of higher education in policymaking, factors of relevance and…

This book, published during the post-war years of the 1950's, offers an historical perspective of suggested policies for improving secondary education and provides details on how the policies and principles could be practiced on the state and local levels. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss the developmental state of American secondary education in the…

In this handbook is described a 7-State comprehensive planning process that incorporates goal development. A section on goal development explains what goals are, how they can be developed by the community, what happens after they have been written and accepted by the district, and provides several examples of goals developed by other State and…

This report presents findings and recommendations of the Michigan Commission on Higher Education concerning needed reforms in postsecondary education. Emphasis is placed on planning and coordination, institutional governance, and future agenda. Planning and coordination is discussed in relation to the developing crisis, constitutional ambiguity,…

This paper presents a conceptualization that interprets the processes of policymaking, institution building, and change planning as aspects of the same generic phenomenon of cultural action. Central to this conceptualization is a view of power that explains the dynamics of these related processes while it demonstrates their integral unity. The…

This document argues the need for improved procedures for planning educational change. Specifically, it argues for a marketing approach which involves starting with the real needs of a particular population and planning a coordinated set of products and programs to serve those needs. The authors focus on using marketing concepts and techniques to…

This document presents the recommendations of the Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education. Recommendations concern goals and accountability, institutional missions, governance, planning, educational policies, special subjects, tenure and staffing, health care education, Native American education, proprietary education, and financing. (MJM)

This study was made to determine the need for a cooperative approach to planning services in Santa Clara County, and should such a need exist, to determine appropriate organizational and government structures, suggested objectives and activities, and suitable resource allocations to achieve the suggested objectives. The resulting position paper…