In response to passage of Illinois Senate Bill 1424 in 1974, which authorized the establishment of a Courts Complex in Springfield, including the William Chamberlain Memorial School of Law, the Board of Higher Education submitted this report. Background information is presented on the state of legal education in Illinois and its planned expansion…

There are many varied and urgent needs calling for the development of a comprehensive adult education system offering a wide diversity of educational programs for adults including, but not limited to, college-level work, providing new educational opportunities, and requiring new and effective instructional approaches. Underlying the system…

Accountability has at times seemed more a harbinger of conflict than a vehicle for improved student learning. While some argue that federal accountability measures have been only superficially utilized in many instances, federal mandates have probably done more to sensitize educators to accountability than any other stimulus. Different states have…

The purpose of this study was the identification of effective means of educating the general public to think in terms of the metric system. Toward this end, extension home eoncomists in New York State were surveyed concerning their plans to implement teaching of the metric system. A literature review was conducted over four basic topics: (1)…

Factors to be considered in the planning and development of a resident outdoor education program are presented in this paper. It is noted that basic educational planning must come first and every other aspect of planning should then refer to the educational plan. Various aspects of planning are described including planning the educational program;…

This paper argues that the fundamental problem of individual inequalities in school success should be solved. Individual inequalities exist because present forms of schooling serve only a fraction of the different individuals in the population and because of the absurdity that precociousness in young children sets the standard for school success.…

A description of the St. Martin Parish French/English bilingual project, one of five such programs in Louisiana, is presented. Now in its fifth year of operation, the St. Martin project serves the rural communities of Breaux Bridge and Parks, in classes from kindergarten through grade 5. Detailed here are the project's policies on staff…

This issue of "Mini-School News" deals with the first 12 steps involved in starting a minischool. The first and most critical step is to clearly identify the problems that make reform seem necessary. The question then becomes one of identifying the possible solutions and sources of information about them. Then the data must be evaluated from a…

This is a final management evaluation report on the Providence Bilingual Project at Fox Point School. The report was prepared according to the management functions identified by the Office of Education. Section 1 discusses these functions: planning, installing, operating, communicating, and evaluating. Section 2 discusses the impact of the project…

The Appalachian Developing Institutions Consortium, consisting of eight two-year institutions in western North Carolina, evaluates its four major programs through internal evaluation teams as well as externally through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The four programs involve student recruitment, comprehensive support services,…

This report discusses the results of a five-year effort to develop a comprehensive planning process that would enable school districts to initiate and maintain a self-sustaining planning capability. In addition to examining the general principles and procedures of the comprehensive planning approach to school district planning, the author…

This document proceeds from the model presented in ED 088 147 outlining in general form some of the issues and needs in a management information system (MIS) for the National Institute of Education (NIE). This report discusses management information issues and needs more concretely. The discussion is related to planning, developing, and operating…

This book provides a brief review of many concepts and practices that are currently being explored and utilized in educational management systems. It is intended to aid teachers and administrators who seek a general understanding of management systems, as well as school board members and laymen who are interested in the systems approach to…

This report is a detailed analysis of business practices within the Massachusetts public school system. It is the result of a three-month examination and evaluation of Massachusetts' schools by a volunteer task force of 33 corporation executives and managers. The evaluations and recommendations are organized into four major sections of the report.…

The three main approaches to educational planning are social demand, manpower forecasting, and cost benefit. The social demand approach, useful only for reference purposes, attempts to forecast and assess consumer demand for education. Manpower forecasting tries to insure an output of the educational system to meet future economic demands, but…