This issue focuses on support and cooperation among various components of the educational community, specifically as this has been achieved by the Willamette Valley (Oregon) Education Consortium, a research-based organization of school districts, educational agencies, and an institute of higher education. The first article describes how schools…

This report attempts to identify some communication problem areas in the Austin Independent School District, based on an open-ended interview questionnaire and a network analysis. Guidelines based on a review of the literature are included for communicators at all levels of the organizational structure. Backup summaries of that review are also…

The National Foundation for Educational Research surveyed 77 local education authorities, 268 special schools, and 23 inservice training institutions in England and Wales concerning support services for integration of special needs students. The survey obtained information on local authority services, links between ordinary schools and special…

Improved communications, teacher involvement in program development, and teacher participation in problem solving are important factors in resolving teacher burnout. Three teacher participation programs, designed specifically to combat teacher burnout, are described. (JN)

A graduate reading course provided students a hands-on experience in using dialog journals with elementary school children to illustrate the value of integrating writing opportunities into reading programs. Every week of the semester reading methods students read, responded, and returned the journals to the cooperating elementary classes. Only…

This study investigated two different responses to the need to develop effective means to mobilize and improve the delivery of educational resources. The top-down approach is an effort to replace the centralized State department of education with a decentralized network of Regional Centers (RCs). The bottom-up approach is a grass roots movement by…

The School-University Partnership for Educational Renewal (SUPER), between teams from the school of education at Berkeley and personnel from 16 public schools, is described and the following aspects are discussed: (1) history of program; (2) current trends in education which affect the program; (3) elements composing SUPER; (4) evaluation of…

When schools and teachers come together voluntarily to collaborate in learning communities there can be powerful and positive benefits to pupils' experiences of learning and their wider lives. This article summarises some of the learning from the four-year Networked Learning Communities programme, managed by the National College for School…

This book examines real-life projects involving Internet access, use, and financing in libraries. It focuses on how becoming an Internet provider has improved many libraries' public visibility, level of service, and communication with other educational or community institutions. Chapters include: (1) "Setting Up an Internet Users Group in the…

In order to identify the major problems relating to resource organization, provision, and information in Scottish primary and secondary schools, interviews were conducted with 200 teachers in unpromoted posts in schools throughout Scotland and the results of these interviews were tabulated and analyzed. The interview sample was random but…

This report describes a study of two small-to-middle-sized midwestern school districts, each observed for about one year. The aim was to clarify the nature of the organizational form of school systems and to examine the organizational processes, using qualitative rather than quantitative methods. Two central concerns of the study were to explore…

The ideas of Randall J. Ryder (see related document) regarding secondary content area reading programs may be supplemented with other suggestions about teacher training and staff development. Among the suggestions are the following: content area teachers should be helped to use reading materials near students' reading levels. The certification…

This report presents the issues and findings of this conference of superintendents from the 43 largest city school systems in the nation. The conference dealt with (1) communication and cooperation between public and nonpublic school educators and their respective school systems and (2) financing the public and nonpublic components of the…

This practicum was designed to improve the quality of psychological referrals from private schools to the public school system by establishing a consultative conference procedure. The primary purpose of the conference was to establish open communication between teachers and the school psychologist and to provide more immediate psychoeducational…

Microcomputers can vastly improve the efficiency of data management, data analysis, and communications in the school office, but implementation should be carefully planned, with attention to relative cost for benefits obtained, appropriateness of software and hardware, and potential security risks. (TE)