Reviews the efforts of a number of colleges to define institutional goals and program objectives for cooperative education (CE). Focuses upon faculty participation in the planning, assessment, and improvement of CE programs. (SK)

Management-By-Objective (MBO) is an eight-step process which allows a school system to state its objectives clearly and evaluate its achievements. MBO aids individual administrators and improves communication within the school system. (SB)

Describes an integrating framework to provide guidance for curriculum evaluation and focus. Framework development was approached from a theoretical standpoint. A review of the work in allied health related to roles and functions is made. In the framework, society is equated with self, others, and institutions. (CT/Author)

Determined if student teachers experience role conflict, based on a comparison of cognitions held for selected student teachers' behaviors by members of three school-related social positions. The greatest disparity was over curriculum and planning. (Author)

Compares problems and practices of British public universities with those of the University of California. Topics discussed include administrative and authority patterns, decision-making processes, student characteristics, and planning objectives. (DB)

Seventy-six department heads were asked what responsibilities they believed were most important in their jobs and what responsibilities they considered themselves most competent to fill. (Author/MLF)

The research and opinions reported in this article make a strong case for the principalship to include instructional leadership in its role definitions. (Author/LH)

A model is proposed for implementation of career education programs in schools, described as involving the counselor in: (1) increasing staff awareness of the need for career education; (2) focusing on priorities for implementation of specific programs; (3) assisting in their operation; and (4) facilitating assessment of effectiveness. (Author)

Presented is a brief framework, with suggestions to help a principal provide necessary staff assistance when implementing a mainstreaming effort. (KC)

Discusses a planning, management, and evaluation system, an objective-based planning process, research databases, analytical reports, and transactional data as state-of-the-art tools available to generate data which link research directly to planning for institutional renewal. (RC)

Compares black higher education philosophies in the early 1960's with those of the late 1960's and early 1970's finding that although both stress socialization, the early 1960's emphasized scholarship, pedagogy and integration, whereas the late 1960's advocated political consciousness, the black perspective, and scholarship and pedagogy as…

Advocates that "the principal goal of education become the training of culturally pluralistic individuals....From our point of view, equality in terms of education will be measured by the student's relative awareness of the range of possible statuses and roles, and by the student's relative ability to effectively compete for those statuses and…

Asserts that clarity about the concept of culture and about the role of cultural competence in the conduct of social interactions are not the key components in the establishment and continuity of multicultural programs in or in connection with school settings. Rather the central factor is the distribution of power to judge competence. (Author/JM)

The data presented on the first three years of the implementation of a middle school provide evidence that the middle school concept does improve the learning climate for adolescents and provides a more positive climate for staff and community as well. (For availability, see EA 507 405.) (Author/IRT)

As part of a state-wide approach to health sciences education planning in Kentucky, a determination of major issues facing pharmacy was made. Attention is focused on those having the greatest potential for impacting on the educational programs. (LBH)