The effects of an administration of the School Health Curriculum Project Heart Unit to a group of one-hundred and forty-five sixth-grade students of lower socioeconomic status was examined. The Heart Unit was administered over a period of nine weeks, five times per week, one hour per day. Participants were divided into separate treatment and…

Budget planning strategies in the academic environment are discussed in light of the discouraging fiscal expectations confronting colleges and universities. The contextual implications of institutional planning processes are considered with specific reference to strategies available to decisionmakers at different levels of the organizational…

A method of establishing a successful inservice teacher education program is described. This method involves organizational change as well as individual change based on the assumption that teacher growth and school change are interdependent. The following set of constructs for a responsive inservice teacher education program are identified: (1)…

Instructional Development (I.D.) encounters are dependent for success on such variables as power, politics, promotion, and organizational placement. I.D. consultants must be aware of power bases or orientation of other personnel and clients, e.g., these four "power personalities" which affect their efforts in managing I.D. encounters: the gate…

The paper examines the role of ethics in the pursuit of educational quality. The nature of ethics, creation of knowledge, language, and the concept of quality are discussed. These ideas are blended into a new epistemology (theory of knowledge) which allows students to probe philosophical questions as part of the educational process. Ethics are…

Involvement in teaching improvement will provide new professional impetus and pride for many discouraged faculty members suffering from lessening enthusiasm for teaching, boredom with the same teaching schedule, and preoccupation with future job expectations. The reading and learning assistance staffs of colleges should be involved in this faculty…

The document presents six Strategy for Peace Conference reports prepared by 94 participants who are leaders in government and the professions throughout the United States. Opening remarks by C. Maxwell Stanley, conference chairman, evaluate accomplishments of the United States in 1977 with regard to foreign policy and provide a context for the…

Following the development of science instruction resource materials for the Pennsylvania elementary schools, a means was required to ensure that teachers would become aware of them, gain access to them, and receive assistance in their use. A six step program for instructional dissemination was developed: (1) the analysis of dissemination and…

The findings and recommendations of a needs assessment study of Oklahoma libraries are presented, with recommendations focusing on public libraries. (School, academic, and special libraries also participated in this survey.) Included are: (1) the methodology; (2) an historical development of Oklahoma libraries; (3) the essential elements of…

The changes that are occurring at an accelerating rate in the field of technology can be both frightening and challenging to the broadcasting industry. Some recent developments that affect the field of communication include an information bank that makes it possible to collect and store years of publication issues and then, through computers, to…

The model proposed in this book specifies that there are four types of interrelated practices that determine the extent to which accountability is realized. These are (1) the identification of primary accountability agents and their respective program responsibilities, (2) the execution of internal program reviews by those program officers, (3)…

In connection with plans for the publication of an annual series of reports on the "Future State of the Union," conceptual problems of such an undertaking are explored and some of the features to be included are examined. Philosophical prerequisites discussed include a model of change; a cybernetic model; some social indicators for…

Four alternative government farm policies were analyzed to determine their effect upon farm income and employment generation in rural areas and agriculturally related industries. A linear programming model of interregional competition was used to determine the impact of alternative farm policies on the quantity of major commodities produced, the…

Drawing from an analysis of educational innovation attempted in 200 school districts throughout the United States, this essay describes critical aspects of the implementation process. Four micro-level premises are critical to larger macro-level change policies. First, external inputs into the implementation process must be congruent with local…

Management planning is a body of concepts and techniques designed to facilitate the analytical and forecasting processes within a department, to increase the decision-making prerogatives of the department director within predetermined guidelines, and to encourage and reinforce communication both among the departments and between the departments…