This paper describes a study designed to (1) identify valid items that school boards must consider to assure that lay participation is encouraged and controlled; and (2) determine to what extent these items were incorporated into the present school board policy manuals, and to what extent they were being used in the practices of school boards…

This pamphlet clarifies the concept of academic freedom and its application to grades 1-12 of the public schools. Guidelines focus the attention of school districts, professionals, and the public on the key issues of academic freedom, including its relationship to district policies, personal freedom, instruction, and students. A 58-item…

The purpose of this study was to examine selected industrial education departments and programs of the community colleges in the United States, and to draw some beneficial implications for the establishment of the proposed community colleges in Venezuela. The procedure involved a review of the literature, the construction of a questionnaire, and…

To indicate the scope and strengthen the research base in all areas of home economics as well as initiate interdisciplinary research, 82 members of official task forces and workshop sessions formulated these goals: (1) Improve the conditions contributing to man's psychological and sociological development, (2) Improve the conditions contributing…

The purpose of this paper is to recommend guidelines for the development of a special collection of materials to support a fifth year master's program in Librarianship. Reasons for the desirability of establishing a separate library school library are stated and some of the factors to consider in the initial and continuing development of the…

This report provides a framework for evaluating the use of performance contracts. It serves as a working guide for those who are considering or are committed to performance contracts with public or private organizations. The topics cover (1) the theoretical basis and rationale of performance contracting, (2) the procurement model and the request…

Intended as an instructional guideline, the last of three reports on taxonomic instruction explains strategy development and use in instruction. The instructional content is reading, with a target population of emotionally disturbed, underachieving students. Strategies are defined as instructional actions resulting from a process of…

This study was made of the practices and problems in rehabilitating public offenders so that meaningful and usable materials would be available for the use of state agencies. The study consisted of a review of the experience of the study group members, a survey of state rehabilitation agencies, a field trip to a cooperative correctional…

A task force approach to care of profoundly retarded children includes parent counseling services. Counseling is usually limited to initial interviews in which the psychologists must explain the diagnosis, teach parents to accept the child's maturity age as the best gauge of his ability, and make parents aware that their child will require…

This report provides board policy samples and other policy resources on the community use of school facilities. The intent in providing policy samples is to encourage thinking in policy terms and to provide working papers that can be edited, modified, or adapted to meet local requirements. The report discusses briefly the use of school facilities…

The flexibility of open-plan space and the goals of an open education have implications for the development of furniture and equipment lists. A suggested furniture and equipment list that has been developed for one team group in one academic cluster in an academic area is presented. The selections aim at providing a wide variety of working…

This book is designed to improve programs of graduate study in five majors under the general heading of health education: physical education, health education, recreation education, safety education, and dance. The first section outlines the history and purposes of graduate education in health-oriented majors and proposes that the same problems…

A comprehensive study of the role of television and technology was conducted among the Universities of Ontario in order to evaluate educational technology as a means of enhancing university level education. Television was the most controversial aspect of study because the associated costs required system-wide consideration. From this light, a case…

A task force of librarians and audiovisual specialists was assembled to resolve differences among the several existing guidelines available for the cataloging of nonprint media and to establish a media code suitable for both manual and automated systems. The guidelines which it issued deal with procedures, terminology and codes, and set forth a…

Originally written to assist communities in Pennsylvania in the design and implementation of comprehensive child development day care programs to meet Federal Inter-Agency guidelines, this manual is geared to the specific needs of the administrator and is equally valuable for any program, large or small, public or private. Section I is on the…