Presented are the proceedings of a special study institute which field tested the Special Education Administration Simulator (SEASIM) to acquaint urban school administrators with the role of the Special Education Director and with information on current trends in special education. SEASIM is said to be based on 31 critical problems and issues…

As a follow-up to the 1972 Management Information Systems (MIS) Summer Training Institute held at Tennessee A & I State University, two in-service training sessions were held in Atlanta, Georgia, October 1972 and February 1973. This document highlights reports and presentations for the October and Febraury sessions. Topics cover: introduction to…

Sessions of the Information Management Training Institute, sponsored by Tennesses State University and Meharry Medical College, are presented in this report. Presentations are divided into five sections: data collection, data manipulation, remote data access, reporting, and team presentations. The first section emphasizes data collection and…

The objectives of the program were to assist 24 teams averaging five leaders per team to plan the strategy and procedures of desegregation in their school systems. This was accomplished by being briefed on the provisions of the Civil Rights Bill, by analyzing the problems incident to desegregation in their own school system, and by formulating…

All participants were selected on the basis of their leadership qualities, responsible and identifiable concern with the process of school desegregation, and their activities specifically concentrated in the Richmond Unified School District. Of the sixty-nine adult participants, 37 were teachers and 11 were community persons representing both…

The historical development of the University of California Archives is traced. In 1929 the U.S. Bureau of the Budget foresaw the need to develop a method to rapidly separate valuable from routine documents and to establish guidelines for the evaluation of records. Records management -- a system to store, service, analyze, and weed documents -- has…

There are seven Presidential libraries in various states of existence, from quite active to proposed: (1) Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, (2) Harry S. Truman Library, (3) Herbert Hoover Library, (4) Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, (5) John F. Kennedy Memorial Library (6) Lyndon B. Johnson Library and (7) Rutherford B. Hayes Memorial Library. Each…

The first paper on the California State Archives treats the administrative status, legal basis of the archives program, and organization of the archives program. The problem areas in this States' archival program are discussed at length. The second paper gives a crude sketch of the legal and administrative history of the California State Archives,…

The proceedings are composed of nine papers that discuss different aspects of the rehabilitation teacher of the blind in his effort to teach the newly blinded homemaker. The introductory paper explains briefly the way in which different sources work together toward rehabilitating the blind homemaker. The following three papers then discuss, in…

This document is comprised of the materials for an intensive training program in evaluation. Evaluation is conceptualized as the process of determining the kinds of decisions that have to be made; and selecting, collecting, and interpreting the information needed in decisionmaking. A 5-phase model of evaluation consisting of (1) needs assessment,…

Described is an institute with the stated purpose of acquainting public school administrators with the role of the special education administrator and to present a general overview of special education programs and issues. The stated objectives of the institute held are introduction to general education administrators of the current issues in…

This booklet describes the training strategies and materials developed as part of the Tucson Early Education Model (TEEM) program for training Program Assistants to foster implementation of TEEM in local school districts. The booklet contains samples of various training materials, as well as descriptions and outlines of the Summer Training…

Provided are appendixes from the 1974 annual report of the Leadership Training Institute on the gifted and talented. Included in Section A are a copy of a letter from the project director to consultants and the following tables: table 1--response to student activity questionnaire, table 2--public elementary and secondary school information, table…

Summarized in the report is information obtained at the Illinois Leadership Training Institute which was held for persons concerned with education of gifted and talented children in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The first chapter contains information on the participants and their backgrounds and interests. Chapter II…