The third document in an eight-part series on a task-based management system for special education programs presented field-gathered data (organized in the form of summary tables) on task time distribution, reported responsibility distribution, and suggested responsibility distribution for a wide range of tasks. Task time distribution charts…

This study attempts to determine what principals, advisers, and others believe is the role of high school student newspapers, and it suggests guidelines to follow in writing these newspapers. The study is based on a questionnaire sent to selected principals, headmasters of nonpublic schools, newspaper advisers, and editors of junior college and…

The 1972 Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) regulations on cable television were intended to assist the penetration of cable television into the large metropolitan regions of the United States. In these major market areas, the task for developing an appropriate franchise is complicated by the changing functional nature of the cable systems…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report containing proposals for the organization of secondary schools, the establishment of school councils, the maintenance of peaceful working conditions and the provision of legal security. Secondary schools should have an internal organization for dealing with…

Guidelines are provided for choosing avocational activities for handicapped persons. Activity descriptions are made for 83 types of games, 98 kinds of sport activities, and 104 nature related activities. (The following volume contains activity descriptions for additional activities. See EC 042 139.) Information concerning avocational activities is…

The manual is designed to clarify and document procedures now in effect at the Information Center of the Council for Exceptional Children, to assist in training new personnel, and to provide a model for other information centers. Types of information requests received are differentiated, followed by a profile of the typical users of the…

The material in this handbook has been designed for continuous reference and use by administrators and school board members in formulating sound school budgets. Statements of practices and policy express the general situation and simply provide a starting point. Practical applications in union free, central, and city school districts in cities of…

Described in depth is an educational program for multiply handicapped children aged 3 to 8 years as it is now operating and a model program which explains what a school district, county or other agency can do to develop and install a program for multiply handicapped children. Program description includes information on philosophy of program…

The short manual designed for teachers of the handicapped focuses on management of individual behavior in the classroom and briefly explains principles of behavior change. Five basic steps in management are explained to be specification of problem behavior, counting the occurrence of the problem behavior, changing the problem behavior by…

Guidelines and procedures which Texas Agricultural Extension Service personnel may use in working with local people in planning and carrying out county programs are provided in this handbook. The program building process is based on the philosophy that people have both the desire and ability to plan and carry out educational programs. The handbook…

This report of policy samples is the 17th in a continuing series of kit-booklets issued to help school boards develop written policies in key subject areas. The intent in providing samples is to encourage thinking in policy terms; and to provide working papers to be edited, modified, or adapted to meet local requirements. Policy samples herein…

Developed by a 25-member committee representing health service institutions, educational institutions, manpower organizations, and professional groups, this publication contains guidelines for use in developing programs for physician's assistants. Suggestions are made for: (1) determining the role of the physician's assistant in relation to other…

This speech reports on the underground press--almost every kind of unofficial publication--reviews case law governing those publications, and suggests administrative guidelines for governing and regulating unofficial publications. The author suggests that although courts are beginning to apply adult standards of responsible journalism to student…

In this speech, the author, a principal, describes his experiences with teacher evaluation in a Canadian high school. He observes that checklists are too harsh, cold, and sometimes brutal, and insists that the evaluation of teacher performance is a personal matter because of the very personal nature of teaching. The author notes that he tries to…

This speech traces the background of the passage of a bond issue in the Kansas City School District, Kansas, to aid other districts seeking to pass bond issues. The author sets out in chronological order the procedures that were taken to eliminate or neutralize opposition to the bond proposal. The author also notes that the board of education…