A skills center can help students who are not able to demonstrate appropriate mastery level skills in reading and mathematics. The Girard school system (Kansas) has had two skills centers operating successfully since 1975. Individualized methods combined with group interaction are used to accommodate individuality and different learning styles.…

The skills needed by the principal for developing and maintaining good school/community relations are synthesized from recent research and presented in this brief document. These universal concepts are applicable to both large and small schools. The topics included are the principal's responsibility to the community, necessary political skills,…

To provide for curriculum flexibility a block of five courses is available in each department of Pershing College. One example: an in-depth study of a major problem, theory, or person in the discipline. The plan was successful for a small college with limited faculty but diverse, creative, and flexible faculty and student body. (JT)

Author, who was the head of a primary school, discussed the problems in operating small primary schools as well as their many important characteristics and potentialities. (RK)

The author, head of a small primary school in Leicestershire, discussed here his changing approach to primary education, and found the small school well adapted to realizing his objectives. (Editor/RK)

Author addressed himself to two particular problems in the modern urban primary school: the fragmentation of the teaching staff and the difficulty in responding as a unit to community demands. (Author/RK)

Small schools hold the same concern for quality education as their big city brethren, but fewer bureaucratic restrictions and stronger interpersonal dependencies permit them to implement an educational program of high quality and to find solutions to the accompanying problems more easily. (Editor)

Four paradigms of labor-management relations are found in American small schools: paternalism, collective bargaining, collegial problem solving, and community problem solving. Examination of the conditions under which each is likely to exist and their unique characteristics, reveals the circumstance which will enhance the effectiveness of each.…

Drawn from a larger paper on geographical isolation, these pages present a review of literature pertaining to geographical isolation factors. The inclusion of a geographical isolation factor in a state's distribution formula for foundation aid is a mechanism for providing additional revenue to small schools or school districts that, because of…

Article discussed procedures followed by an elementary day school in undertaking a long-range planning study. (Author/RK)

The items and minimum cost necessary for estimating a research laboratory are provided for the small college instructor, as well as a programmatic statement of procedure. (Author/KM)

THIS REPORT IS A DOCUMENTATION OF AN INDIVIDUALIZED ENGLISH PROGRAM AT WELLS, NEVADA, DURING THE SCHOOL YEARS 1963-64 AND 1964-65. THE PROCEDURE, THE METHODS, THE OBJECTIVES, THE LESSON ASSIGNMENTS, SAMPLES OF STUDENTS WORK, STUDENT AND PARENT EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM, AND CONCLUSIONS ARE PRESENTED IN DETAIL. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INSTRUCTIONAL…

A CURRICULUM PLAN HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY THE BLOOMINGTON, WISCONSIN, COMMUNITY SCHOOLS TO EXPAND CURRICULUM OFFERINGS BY 30 PERCENT USING EXISTING TEACHING STAFF AND PHYSICAL FACILITIES. THE SCHOOL DAY IS DIVIDED INTO 21 MODULES OF 19 MINUTES EACH. SEVEN MODULES ARE GROUPED INTO A BLOCK. THREE BLOCKS CONSTITUTE A SCHOOL DAY. THE SCHOOL YEAR IS…

THIS REPORT IS A DOCUMENTATION OF THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF THE TEACHING OF SPELLING IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM, GRADES 2 THROUGH 6, AT MEEKER, COLORADO. THE PROGRAM IS ORIENTED TOWARD USING TAPE RECORDERS. THE RECORDED MATERIALS ARE TEACHER-MADE, EXCEPT FOR SOME COMMERCIAL PHONICS MATERIAL. EXPLANATIONS ARE PRESENTED ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION,…

Much progress has been made in the quest for better rural schools. In 1977, People United for Rural Education (PURE) began its work as an advocate for rural education and small schools. In 1979, PURE was notified that it was to receive the National Volunteer Activist Award. In 1980, the Rural/Regional Education Association became the Rural…